Charles Crozat Converse (1832 – 1918) was an American attorney who also worked as a composer of church songs. He is notable for setting to music the words of Joseph Scriven to become the hymn “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”. Converse published an arrangement of “The Death of Minnehaha”, with words by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Wikipedia
Converse, Charles Crozat (1832–1918)
