James Thomas Quarles

James Thomas Quarles (November 7, 1877 in St. Louis, Missouri – March 4, 1954 in Los Angeles, California[1]) was a 20th-century American organist, educator, and academic.

[4] He was the founding dean of the University of Missouri School of Fine Arts including the University of Missouri School of Music.

[5] In 1905 he wrote one of Cornell's school songs "Cornell Hymn"[6] In the 1920s he edited a compilation of Missouri school songs and was advisor to the Zeta Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.

[7] For a time Annie White Baxter served as his secretary.

[8] He studied organ under famed St. Louis organist Charles Henry Galloway.

The large Skinner Pipe Organ at Missouri United Methodist Church was acquired and played by Quarles.