Cora S. Briggs
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Cora Skillings Briggs[n 1] (13 May 1859, South Paris, Maine – 12 December 1935[1][2]) was an American composer and organist. She studied harmony with Stephen A. Emery and piano and organ with Hermann Kotzschmar and E. W. Hanscom; performed as the organist for the First Congregational Church of her birthplace for forty-eight years.[3][4][5] She wrote around eighty sacred Christian songs, the most famous one being Hold Thou My Hand.[2][3][6] Her husband, George A. Briggs was a vocalist.[7][8]