BOATNER, EDWARD H.

BOATNER, EDWARD H. Composer (13 November 1898 in New Orleans, Louisiana; 16 June 1981 in New York, New York). His father was an itinerant minister, who took his family with him on his travels from church to church. Boatner was impressed by the singing he heard and began to collect spirituals at an early age. He obtained his education in the public schools of St. Louis, Missouri, where his family lived during his childhood; in the public high schools of Kansas...