Marilyn J. Crandall

Marilyn J. Crandall received a bachelor of arts in music from Brigham Young University, and a master of music degree from Arizona State University. A great-great-granddaughter of George Bryant Gardner, she took a leave of absence from music teaching in 1994 and received a master’s degree in library science from the University of Arizona, basing her thesis on her great-great-grandfather’s hymnal. She would like to thank Dr. Michael Hicks, School of Music, Brigham Young University; Dr. Nicholas Temperley, School of Music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Hugh McHarry, Mason County History Project, Havana, Illinois, who offered their encouragement, assistance, and expertise while doing research for this project.