Composer Bio Information
Nusbaum, Cyrus Silvester's bio information
Saturday, July 27, 1861 - Monday, December 27, 1937
Born: July 27, 1861, Middlebury, Indiana.
Died: December 27, 1937, Wichita, Kansas.
Buried: Kingman, Kansas.
In 1885, Nusbaum began teaching school in Marion County, Kansas. He became an ordained Methodist minister in 1886, and pastored in Douglass, Goddard, Wichita, and Kingman, Kansas. He went on to serve as educational secretary at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas (1895-97); pastor at Ottawa, Kansas (1897-1903); presiding elder of the Independent District (1903-7); and pastor at Parsons, Kansas (1908-14). In 1914, the Methodist Conference appointed him as an evangelist. During World War I, he served as an American Red Cross inspector in France, holding the rank of U.S. Army captain. After the war, he often spoke on the Redpath Lyceum circuit, and held evangelistic meetings in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. Southwestern College conferred a DD degree upon him. In his latter years he served small Kansas churches, and was a “supply preacher” at Lost Springs and Antelope.
Sources
* Reynolds, p. 375
Hymns
1. His Way with Thee
Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/n/u/nusbaum_cs.html
Died: December 27, 1937, Wichita, Kansas.
Buried: Kingman, Kansas.
In 1885, Nusbaum began teaching school in Marion County, Kansas. He became an ordained Methodist minister in 1886, and pastored in Douglass, Goddard, Wichita, and Kingman, Kansas. He went on to serve as educational secretary at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas (1895-97); pastor at Ottawa, Kansas (1897-1903); presiding elder of the Independent District (1903-7); and pastor at Parsons, Kansas (1908-14). In 1914, the Methodist Conference appointed him as an evangelist. During World War I, he served as an American Red Cross inspector in France, holding the rank of U.S. Army captain. After the war, he often spoke on the Redpath Lyceum circuit, and held evangelistic meetings in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. Southwestern College conferred a DD degree upon him. In his latter years he served small Kansas churches, and was a “supply preacher” at Lost Springs and Antelope.
Sources
* Reynolds, p. 375
Hymns
1. His Way with Thee
Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/n/u/nusbaum_cs.html
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