Horace Melvyn Estabrooke was born in 1849 in Linneus, Maine. He was a member of the class of 1876 at the University of Maine, received an M.S. from Maine in 1884 and an M.A. from Bowdoin College in 1891. He was a professor of rhetoric and modern languages at the University of Maine from 1891-1895 and a professor of English there from 1895 to 1908. He married Kate A. Clark in 1880. Horace Estabrooke died in 1908.
From the description of University hymn / words and music by Horace Melvyn Estabrooke. [1908?] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 317303863