McIntosh at­tend­ed Jack­son Coll­ege in Co­lum­bia, Ten­nes­see, and stu­died mu­sic un­der Asa Ev­er­ett. In 1875, he was ap­point­ed head of the Mu­sic De­part­ment at Van­der­bilt Un­i­ver­si­ty in Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see. In 1877, he joined the fa­cul­ty of Em­o­ry Coll­ege, Ox­ford, Georg­ia. In 1895, he left Em­o­ry Coll­ege to de­vote his time to the R. M. Mc­In­tosh Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny. He al­so served as mu­sic ed­it­or of the Meth­od­ist Epis­co­pal Church South Pub­lish­ing House for over 30 years. His works in­clude:

• Good News, or Songs and Tunes for Sun­day Schools, Christ­ian As­so­ci­a­tions and Spe­cial Meet­ings (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: Ol­iv­er Dit­son & Com­pa­ny, 1876)
• Songs of Service (Atlanta, Georgia: The R. M. McIntosh Co., 1896) (mu­sic ed­it­or)

Sources

Music

1. At the Beautiful Gate
2. Beautiful Christmas
3. For Ma­ny, Ma­ny Years
4. Gathering Home
5. How Firm a Founda­tion
6. Kingdom Is Coming, The
7. McAnally
8. Not Far from the Kingdom
9. On Jordan’s Stormy Banks I Stand
10. Once o’er Judea’s Hills by Night
11. Story of the Cross
12. Tell It Again
13. Ten Virgins, The
14. Wise Virgins, The