Tolbert R. Ingram Publishing, Denver

Hey all! So, I'm diggin' at the big Colorado Springs city-wide garage sale event, last weekend, and I spot this fantastic Denver-published sheet music, "In Colorado Where the Wild Flowers Grow"... and then I found another... and another. I noticed the name Tolbert R. Ingram on all of them, so I thought I better further investigate.

Tolbert R. Ingram came to Denver, by way of Tennessee, in 1900. His background was publishing, and he immediately picked up, where he left off, with his first issued sheet music, "Parson Johnson's Rag-Time Mule," by E.E. (Edgar) Huston.

 

Parson Johnson's Rag-Time Mule - EE (Edgar) Huston

Tolbert R. Ingram, publisher

1900

His publishing efforts would gain traction when, as a reporter at the Denver Post,  he wrote a story about song he remembered, back home, in Tennessee, "My Rosary." The readers of the story were so taken by the prose, they wanted to hear the music. At that time, there wasn't a full-time music publishing house in the Mile High City so, sensing an opportunity, he obtained the rights to the song, and published the sheet music.

My Rosary - Ferdinand Lust

Tolbert R. Ingram, publisher

1901

The music sold so well, he gave up his job at the Post and opened up a formal publishing house, located on 17th Street. 

In 1904 he married Louise Hammond, and made her the cover girl for the sheet music "Western Girl" (see photo, in the list, below).

The Ingram Music Company stayed in business, until 1911, when he was appointed the assistant secretary of the Denver Manufacturers' Association. He later went back into the newspaper business, in Wyoming. He died in 1969, and is buried at the Crown Hill Cemetery, in Denver.

Sheet Music Published by Tolbert R. Ingram (alphabetized by composer, by year)

1900

Parson Johnson's Rag-Time Mule - Edgar Huston

1901

 

Where the Silv'ry Colorado Wends Its Way - Charles Avril 

Trip to the Rockies - Tolbert R. Ingram

My Rosary - Ferdinand Lust

Kwang-Su - Francis Schwinger

1902

Down Among the Sun Kissed Hills of Tennessee - Beth Slater Whitson

1903

 

The Girl I Loved Out in the Golden West - Charles Avril

1904

 

Belle of the Plains - LB Bitz Jr. 

Cosmopolitan America - Helen May Butler

Falconer's Song - Inez Carusi

Cupid and the Cowboy - David Durose

My Lady Nightingale - Albert J. Harbridge

Only a Poor Soldier's Dream - Marguerite Heimerdinger

Just a Little Spray Of Columbine - Herman Miller

In Thine Absence - Charles Kirkland Hunt

My Jug and I - AS Lohmann

Alone - FB O'Brien

Mid The Mountains of Dear Old Colorado - Myrtle Selders

In An Autumn Forest - George Stanley

Fascination - Grace Ida Winchell

1905

The Prairies of Illinois - Harriet Adams Chambers

O Salutaris Hostia - George Assion 

Back Among the Clover and the Bees - Charles Avril

My Pretty Jap - Rusha May Baker

Dainty Flo From Idaho - Harrison W. Barber

You Needn't Think I'm a Regular Fool - Harrison W. Barber

My Colorado Home Among the Pines - Madge Bittner

Flowers of the Past - Mary A. Boysen

Kabe Yun: West Wind - Mary A. Boysen

Le Chevalier - James O Clifford

Sweet Josephine - Branch Cowell

Teddy - Leon Lodessi Davis

Colorado Memories - Leone Delaney

When Summer Waters Clear Kiss Roses Dear - AR Dennis

You're The Girl I Used to Love - Bayard E. Foote

Broncho Belle - Louise Forres

On The Banks of Lac Qui Parle - Reginald Frees

Girl We All Love Best - Franc L Grannis

The Girl You Love - Hattie Green

I Like The Way You're Acted Since I've Been Gone - Charles Hatcher

 

Western Girl - Albert J Harbridge

Walula - Vernon Homer

Abyssinian Patrol - Henry Houseley

Bonnie Eyes of Brown and Blue - Charles L Johnson

I Don't Want to Go Away - Charles L. Johnson

Little C**n Lullaby - Lute Johnson

Maude Fealy - Hurley J. Kaylor

Outside the Walls of Vassar - Thomas E. Keefe

The CTC March Song  - Josephine Knowles Kendel

Doubt Not, Fond Heart - Ferdinand Lust

Baby's Goodnight Song - SH Martin

Memories of the Old Farm House - SH Martin

In Colorado Where the Wild Flowers Grow - Helen McDaniel

I'll Come Back Some Day - Robert McGowan

When My Sweetheart Whispered Yes - Alexander Mignani

Marathon - Fred W. Miller

That's Mr. Millionaire - WH Morier

Among the Hills of My Old Colorado Home - Calvin Moxley

I Do Not Know Why I Love You So - Victor E Nelson

Canebrake Harvest Dance - Leo Oehmler

In the Cottonfield - Leo Oehmler

Lullaby at the Cabin Door - Leo Oehmler

Solitario - Kenneth O'Neill

The Beautiful City - Philip Penfield

Jolly Boys - Carl Pitzer

My Own Sweetheart - Fred Schwartz

Rough Rider - Elmer G Slothower

Ba Low Slumber Song - Mary Southwick

Dream On My Love - George Stanley

Old Big N***er - George Stanley

Vow on the Battlefield - George Stanley

Here's to Colorado - Robert W Stevens

U of C - Robert W Stevens

Jolly Tenderfoot - Bessie Stratton

Evelyn Waltzes - CD Swallow 

Forgive Me, Claire - Ada Collier Templeton

That Dear Girl in Illinois - Gwilym Thomas

Beau Ideal - Charles R Thompson

Fate of Kala-Mazoo - Helen Canfield Tilbery

Montana Sunlit Hills - Ira M Toothman

Nita - Alex G Van Riper

That Dear Old Home I Used to Love So Well - Lula Weaver

My Southern Home - A Whalley

Roses - Charlotte Whedon

Since That Summer Time With You - Elizabeth Whitson

1906

Invocation: Veni Creator Spiritus - George J. Assion

Those Homemade Pumpkin Pies - Wilfred G. Astle 

The Homeland of the Soul - Lea M. Bennett
Christmas Mom - Madge Bittner

 

Seeing Denver - Gus Brohm

Gathering the Wild Flowers - Eva Carter Buckner 

Lost Children of the San Hills - WT Burleigh

What 49 Could Do - Will Cowell

Annie Laurie - Burt M. Cutler

Woodland Slumber Song - IE Cutler

The Hurdler - Margery Dennis

Coasting - Gary Gill

Sultana - Jack Hanguer

Rosemary - Albert J Harbridge

Cradle Song of Bethlehem - Henry Houseley

Hymn of the Evergreen State - Charles L Johnson

The Story You Told Me in the Dell -  Charles L. Johnson

When the Blue Bells Bloom Again -  Charles L. Johnson

That's The Place For You, Old Man, For You - Donald Jones

Morning Prayer - Richard A Lucchesi

Preludietto - Richard A Lucchesi

To a Lonely Flowerlet - Richard A Lucchesi

Hidden Way in the Attics - Alice Davis Moody

A Mother's Appeal - Florence Moore

Lightfoot Luke - Otto Mussle

The Geisha Girl From Old Japan - Maude McFerran Price

Dreaming on the Silv'ry Rio Grande

Sasarida - Albert Schuh

Easter Song - Clara Syphus

1907

 

As Night Brings Out the Stars - Joseph G. Bonnell

My Dear Old Western Home Among the Hills - Philip C Curtis 

Dream Life - Arthur Dodd

City Lights of Denver - Chevalier Enrico Gargiulo

Wild Rose - Chevalier Enrico Gargiulo

My Sweetheart Lou - Hattie Green

Once in a Awhile - Julius H Hansen

The Little Sunny Southern Girl of Mine - Charles L. Johnson

Mary Carey - Lute Johnson

Thunderbolt - Oscar Mayo

I Am Thinking of You, Mother - Fred Miller

Morning Times - Monroe M Moore

Nymphs O' The Mist - Alfred V Peterson

Song of the Little Dancing Master - Alfred V Peterson

When I Was a Child - Alfred V Peterson

Pocatello - Henry E Sachs

Formanian March - JF Thomas

Cupid's Frolic - Grace Ida Winchell

1908

 

Democratic Fun - Robert Buechel

Mohawk - AJ Fynn 

Meet Me Mid the Daisies - Tolbert R. Ingram

Just Take a Trip Out to Lakeside - Elmore I Lee

You - Gaston Otey Wilkens

1909

 

Back Among the Southern Pines - ML Casey 

The Rage - LP Christensen

Lovers Matin' Song - Frances J. Ferlen 

O Light Divine - Robert Brooks Finch

Mountain Breeze - Baxter W. Keyt

Girl o' Dreams - Anna Arrington Prewitt

Moon-Goddess - Ralph C Smith

1910

 

Pick Up The Sunshine - Evans Buskett

You're My Little Doll Baby - L. Sansome

1911

Abide With Me - Charles E Shermer