Biography:

Clergyman; evangelist; hymnodist. Born– April 27, 1856, Tuskegee. Parents– William Parish (Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court) and Elvira Frances (Morgan) Chilton. Married– Mabel Cecilia Pierce, December 3, 1878. Children– Nine. Education– left school at the age of fifteen after the death of his father. After studying for the ministry he was licensed to preach in July 1877 in the Methodist Episcopal Church at Court Street Church in Montgomery. Left the Methodist Church in 1901 because of a dispute over the use of musical instruments in the church; continued his ministry as a freelance evangelist.  Played many musical instruments and composed hymns and poems.  Died July 28, 1914.

Source:

Owen’s Story of Alabama.

Publication(s):

The Chilton Music for Standard Hymns. New York; s.n., 1923.

Is This Justice? Montgomery, Ala.; privately printed, 1910.

Memorial Address on John T. Morgan. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1913.

Song of the Southland; and Other Poems. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1911.

Pamphlets:

Born of God.

Eternal Punishmen.

False Prophet.

How to Pray.

Plain Truth.

Joint_Publication(s):

(Pamphlet) The Place of Prayer in Redemption.