Son of James and Em­a­line Lin­coln, Hor­ace moved with his fam­i­ly to Tex­as when he was se­ven years old. At age 10, he be­gan at­tend­ing a sing­ing school con­duct­ed by James M. Jol­ley of Miss­iss­ip­pi. He lat­er att­end­ed other mu­sic­al train­ing un­der L. B. Shook and John Mc­Pher­son; in 1898, he grad­u­at­ed from the Chi­ca­go Na­tion­al Coll­ege of Mu­sic, and in 1906 took a post-gra­du­ate course un­der Ho­ra­tio Palm­er. He went on to be­come pre­si­dent of the Song­land Mu­sic Com­pa­ny, and the World’s Nor­mal Mu­sic­al Coll­ege. As of 1914, he was liv­ing in Dall­as, Tex­as. His works in­clude:

• Gospel Carols, 1885
• Songland Messenger
• Songland Melodies

Sources

Music

1. Hundred Years to Come, A
2. There Is Gladness in the Gospel
3. Seek First the Kingdom of God
4. White Coffin, The