Horace Waters was a 19th-century hymn publisher and frequent collaborator with Stephen Foster and Susan McFarland Parkhurst.

He was a retailer of organs, pianos, sheet music and melodeons.

He added his own line of pianos to his manufacturing after the Civil War.

The popularity of the melodeons and organs declined while the piano became a more common instrument in the home and so the company discontinued the manufacture of these.

[5] Waters was described as having strong convictions, and his life was regarded as "a living commentary upon the precepts and principles of the New Testament".