Career
He is memorialized by an annual award — the Harvey Gaul Memorial Composition Contest (aka The Harvey Gaul Prize) — bestowed to composers for outstanding work. He is well known as a composer of church music J. Garth Edmundson Harvey Bartlett Gaul married Harriette Lester Avery (b 1886, Youngstown, Ohio) June 13, 1908, in Cleveland, Ohio.
The son, James Harvey Gaul, had been an archeologist (Harvard class of 1932, Doctor of Philosophy Harvard 1940).
During World World War II, as a United States. Naval Reservist Lieutenant, he died by German firing squad in late January 1945 at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp near Linz, Austria. Having worked with the Office of Naval Intelligence, in 1944, he had been transferred to the Office of Strategic Services.
He had been captured by the Germans during a combat mission in Czecho-Slovakia, a country where he had worked as an archeologist. The President of the United States presented him with the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously).
The daughter, Ione Gaul Walker (1914–1987), a painter, had been married to Hudson Dean Walker (1907–1976), an art dealer.
Harvey Gaul died December 1, 1945, of injuries from an auto accident.
