Composer Bio Information
Tullar, Grant Colfax's bio information
Thursday, August 5, 1869 - Saturday, May 20, 1950
Born: August 5, 1869, Bolton, Connecticut.
Died: May 20, 1950, Ocean Grove, New Jersey.
Buried: Restland Memorial Park, Hanover, New Jersey.
Tullar was named after the American President and Vice-President, Ulysses S. Grant & Schuyler Colfax. His father was unable to work, having been wounded in the American civil war Battle of Antietam. So, after Tullar’s mother died when he was two years old, the family split up. Grant had no settled home after that day until he became an adult.
As a child, he worked in a woolen mill and as a shoe clerk, and received virtually no education or religious training. He came to Christ at age 19 at a camp meeting near Waterbury, Connecticut. He then attended the Hackettstown Academy in New Jersey. Ordained a Methodist minister, he pastored for a short time in Dover, Delaware, then became a full time evangelist. In 1893, he and Isaac Meredith founded the Tullar-Meredith music publishing house in New York. His works include:
* Sunday School Hymns No. 1 (Chicago, Illinois: Tullar-Meredith Co., 1903)
* The Bible School Hymnal (with Isaac Meredith) (New York: Tullar-Meredith Co., 1907)
Sources
* Emurian, pp. 29-32
* Hall, pp. 401-3
Hymns
1. Joy Dispels Our Sorrow
2. Lord of the Harvest, The
3. O Holy Bible
4. People That in Darkness Walked, The
5. Resurrection Morn So Fair
6. Smile and Sing
7. Wake, Sweetest Strain
8. We Will Follow Jesus
Music
1. All the World for Jesus
2. The Conqueror
3. Face to Face with Christ, My Savior
4. Forward!
5. He Did Not Die in Vain
6. Keep Your Heart in Love with Jesus (© 1932)
7. Life Is a Friendly Road (© 1928)
8. Nailed to the Cross
9. Our Best
10. Skies Will Soon Be Blue (© 1928)
11. There’s a Beautiful City (© 1935)
Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/t/u/tullar_gc.html
Died: May 20, 1950, Ocean Grove, New Jersey.
Buried: Restland Memorial Park, Hanover, New Jersey.
Tullar was named after the American President and Vice-President, Ulysses S. Grant & Schuyler Colfax. His father was unable to work, having been wounded in the American civil war Battle of Antietam. So, after Tullar’s mother died when he was two years old, the family split up. Grant had no settled home after that day until he became an adult.
As a child, he worked in a woolen mill and as a shoe clerk, and received virtually no education or religious training. He came to Christ at age 19 at a camp meeting near Waterbury, Connecticut. He then attended the Hackettstown Academy in New Jersey. Ordained a Methodist minister, he pastored for a short time in Dover, Delaware, then became a full time evangelist. In 1893, he and Isaac Meredith founded the Tullar-Meredith music publishing house in New York. His works include:
* Sunday School Hymns No. 1 (Chicago, Illinois: Tullar-Meredith Co., 1903)
* The Bible School Hymnal (with Isaac Meredith) (New York: Tullar-Meredith Co., 1907)
Sources
* Emurian, pp. 29-32
* Hall, pp. 401-3
Hymns
1. Joy Dispels Our Sorrow
2. Lord of the Harvest, The
3. O Holy Bible
4. People That in Darkness Walked, The
5. Resurrection Morn So Fair
6. Smile and Sing
7. Wake, Sweetest Strain
8. We Will Follow Jesus
Music
1. All the World for Jesus
2. The Conqueror
3. Face to Face with Christ, My Savior
4. Forward!
5. He Did Not Die in Vain
6. Keep Your Heart in Love with Jesus (© 1932)
7. Life Is a Friendly Road (© 1928)
8. Nailed to the Cross
9. Our Best
10. Skies Will Soon Be Blue (© 1928)
11. There’s a Beautiful City (© 1935)
Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/t/u/tullar_gc.html
The last 10 hymns uploaded.
- # 1 - More Of Jesus (TTBB) (uploaded on Sep 18, 2023)
- # 2 - Jesus Is All The World To Me (TTBB) (uploaded on Sep 02, 2023)
- # 3 - The Nail-Scarred Hand (TTBB) (uploaded on Aug 31, 2023)
- # 4 - I Shall See Him By And By (TTBB) (uploaded on Jul 23, 2023)
- # 5 - Pass Me Not (TTBB) (uploaded on Jul 22, 2023)
- # 6 - By And By (TTBB) (uploaded on Jul 16, 2023)
- # 7 - The Great Physician (TTBB) (uploaded on Jul 15, 2023)
- # 8 - Peace, Peace Is Mine (TTBB) (uploaded on Jul 14, 2023)
- # 9 - Only A Little While 2 (TTBB) (uploaded on Jul 13, 2023)
- #10 - Bless Me Now (TTBB) (uploaded on Jul 11, 2023)