Full Name: Homer Alvan Rodeheaver

Birth: October 4, 1880, in Union Furnace, Ohio

Death: December 18, 1955 at his home in Winona Lake, IN

Education:

? Attended Ohio Wesleyan University, but did not graduate

1942 Honorary Doctorate of Sacred Music from Bob Jones University

Career:

1890s Trombonist for Fourth Tennessee Regimental Band, including during the Spanish-American War

1909-1931 Soloist, musical director and master of ceremonies for Billy Sunday's evangelistic campaigns (also worked with other evangelists)

1909-1955 Published around 80 different religious song books through his publishing company, known at various times as the Rodeheaver-Ackley Co., the Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Co. and the Rodeheaver Co. Owned copyrights to hundreds of religious songs.

1913-1942 Musical recording artist

1920-1955 Founded and headed the Rodeheaver Record Co. with the Rainbow record label.

1923 Accompanied evangelist William E. Biederwolf on a world-wide evangelistic tour

1940s Music leader at Bob Jones University

1950s Sung, played trombone and preached at evangelistic sacred concerts

Other significant information:

Involved with a disparate array of groups and organizations. Rodeheaver was a Mason, worked with the Y.M.C.A. in France, founded Rodeheaver's Boys Ranch, Inc., and started the Summer School of Sacred Music at Winona Lake, Indiana.