Charles Crozat Converse was born in
Warren, Massachusetts on October 7, 1832. He studied law and music in
Leipzig, Germany, returned home in 1857, and was graduated at the
Albany Law School in 1861. Many of his musical compositions appeared under the anagrammatic pen-names "C. O. Nevers", "Karl Reden", "E. C. Revons", and "Lesta Vesé". He published a cantata (1855),
New Method for the Guitar (1855),
Musical Bouquet (1859),
The One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Psalm (1860),
Sweet Singer (1863),
Church Singer (1863) and
Sayings of Sages (1863). Converse proposed the use of the
gender-neutral pronoun "thon". He died at his home in
Englewood, New Jersey on October 18, 1918. ==References==