Composer and songwriter ("The Whiffenpoof Song"), educated at Amherst
College (BA, MA). He was a probate judge, then a secretary to the
governor of Ohio. During World War I, he was a YMCA entertainer in
France. Joining ASCAP in 1933, his other popular-song compositions
include "Little Boy Blue", "O Heart of Mine", "The Gypsy Trail", "When
Spring Comes Laughing", "Where the Highway Steps Along", "My Laddie",
"Along Upon the House Tops to the North" and "Pickaninny
Lullaby".
