Charles Whitney Coombs (1859, Bucksport, Maine – 1940, Montclair, New Jersey) was an American composer and organist.The American Organist Volume 30 1996 p. 92 "CHARLES WHITNEY COOMBS, b. 1859 Bucksport, Maine; d. 1940 Montclair, N.J. S: Stuttgart, Dresden, Italy, Switzerland O: American Church, Dresden, 1887—91 Church of Holy Communion, New York. N.Y., 1892–1908 St. Luke's Church."The International who is who in Music Alfred Victor Frankenstein, Sigmund Gottfried Spaeth, John Townsend Hinton Mize – 1951 p.125 "COOMBS. (Dr.) CHARLES WHITNEY (1859– 1940): American Church Organist, and Composer." He was prolific in both sacred and secular music.Our American music, three hundred years of it John Tasker Howard, James Lyons – 1954 p.599 Charles Whitney Coombs (1859–1940), was prolific in both sacred music and secular music. "
