Horace Waters
Horace Waters was a 19th-century hymn publisher and frequent collaborator with Stephen Foster and Susan McFarland Parkhurst. In 1845, he established his "Piano and Music Establishment". He was a retailer of organs, pianos, sheet music and melodeons. In the 1850s he began to manufacture his own organs and melodeons. He added his own line of pianos to his manufacturing after the Civil War. His sons, T. Leed Waters and Horace Waters Jr became active in the company around 1864. The popularity of the melodeons and organs declined while the piano became a more common instrument in the home and so the company discontinued the manufacture of these. He also produced player pianos.
Waters was described as having strong convictions, and his life was regarded as "a living commentary upon the precepts and principles of the New Testament".
Works
| Publications | year | Publisher |
| "The Anniversary and Sunday School Music Book Nos. 1 and 2 with additions" | 1858 | New York: Horace Waters |
| "The Anniversary and Sunday School Music Book No. 1-5" | 1858 | New York: Horace Waters |
| "The Sabbath School Bell" | 1859 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Presbyterian Board of Publication |
| "The Westminster Collection of Sabbath School Hymns and Tunes" | 1858 | New York: Horace Waters |
| "The Revival Music Book" | 1860 | New York: Horace Waters |
| Sabbath School Bell No. 2 | 1860 | New York: Horace Waters |
| Waters' Choral Harp | 1863 | New York: Horace Waters |
| "The Athenaeum collection of hymns and tunes for church and Sunday School" | 1863 | New York: Horace Waters |
| "Choral Harp for Sunday Schools" | 1865 | |
| "Heavenly Echoes" | 1867 | New York: C. M. Tremaine |