OLDS William Benjamin

OLDS William Benjamin (June 3, 1874, in Clinton Town, Rock, Wisconsin, United States – January 10, 1948) was an American musician, professor, composer, and scholar. 

William Benjamin Olds is listed as a student of Oberlin College in 1890 and at Beloit College the same year. He studied bird songs and his book "Twenty-five bird songs for children" was published in 1914, while "A Second Book of Bird Songs for Children" (20 more songs) was published before 1923. The Musical Quarterly published an article he wrote about bird songs in 1922.

He worked at Millikin College in Decatur, Illinois. He wrote a college song for the school in 1913. In 1923 he took a position at the University of Redlands in California.

Olds died on 10 January 1948, in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.