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Excerpt from A Twentieth Century History of Trumbull County, Ohio, Vol. 2: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People, and Its Principal Interests
Thoroughly educated under the most eminent masters of voice culture in Europe and America, and, from his early manhood, possessed of it won derful tenor, Mr. Mcgranahan was besieged on all sides by unqualified advice and enthusiastic solicitation urging him to adopt an operatic career. But there was one of his most intimate friends who drew him powerfully in another direction; that was P. P. Bliss, who begged that he consecrate his wondrous voice and gifts as a composer to the Gospel cause. While matters were in this undecided state came the dreadful catastrophe at Ashtabula, in which Bliss was killed-but Major Whittle himself has told the story in these words: A week before Mr. Bliss left me he was writing at the table one day, and he read me a letter he had written. He said it was to a man he very much wanted to see in Gospel work, he could write music and sing, and he wanted him to sing for the Lord He asked me if I knew of any evangelist who would go with his friend mcgranahan.
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