Elmer Samuel Hosmer

Elmer Samuel Hosmer (1862 – 1945) was an American composer. A native of Massachusetts, he studied with J. C. D. Parker and Percy Goetschius, and wrote a good deal of church music. He also composed a number of cantatas, including one about Christopher Columbus and one after "The Man Without a Country". He taught at the Rhode Island College of Education in Providence, for some years.

"Professor of music at the Rhode Island College of Education since 1924".[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Rhode Island, a Guide to the Smallest State" (1937), page 172.
  • Howard, John Tasker (1939). Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
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