Halsey Mohr was born in Canada in 1883 to a Canadian father and a mother from New York.
In 1906, he married Helen Quarrels and they had two daughters named Edna and Shirley.
[2] Described as a "songwriter and vaudeville song and dance man"[3] Mohr had a successful career as a composer and sometimes lyricist of usually comic songs in the vaudeville and tin pan alley tradition.
[4][5] Some of his more noted songs were "Piney Ridge", "They're Wearing 'Em Higher In Hawaii", "Liberty Belle", "Jane Dear", and "I'm A Yiddish Cowboy".
[6][7] Going against antiwar sentiment during the early years of World War I, he wrote pro-war patriotic music.