Real name: Charles Austin Miles

AKA: A. A. Payn

b. Jan­u­a­ry 7, 1868, Lake­hurst, New Jer­sey
d. March 10, 1946, Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia

Attended the Phil­a­del­phia Coll­ege of Phar­ma­cy and the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­van­ia. In 1892, he aban­don­ed his ca­reer as a phar­ma­cist and wrote his first Gos­pel song, “List ’Tis Je­sus’ Voice” which was pub­lished by the Hall-Mack Com­pa­ny. He served as ed­i­tor and man­a­ger at the Hall-Mack pub­lish­ers for 37 years.