Phoebe A. Hanaford

Phoebe A. Hanaford
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Short Name: Phoebe A. Hanaford
Full Name: Hanaford, Phoebe A., 1829-1921
Birth Year: 1829
Death Year: 1921

Hanaford, Phoebe A., née Coffin, daughter of George F. Coffin, was born at Nantucket Island, May 6, 1829. Mrs. Hanaford is an Universalist, and one of their recognized ministers. Her hymn "Cast thy bread upon the waters" (Work and Wait), is in the Laudes Domini, N.Y., 1884, and other American collections.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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Born: May 6, 1829, Nan­tuck­et Is­land, Mass­a­chu­setts.
Died: June 2, 1921, Ro­ches­ter, New York.

Daughter of Quak­er ship own­er George F. Cof­fin, Phoe­be was cou­sin to fem­in­ist Lu­cre­tia Mott. A gift­ed writ­er, she was pub­lished in the lo­cal pa­per by the time she was a teen­ag­er. She stu­died La­tin and math­e­ma­tics and taught school for a few years, then in 1849 mar­ried Dr. Jo­seph H. Han­a­ford. The cou­ple lived in New­ton and Read­ing, Mass­a­chu­setts, and had two child­ren. Phoebe con­tin­ued her lit­er­ary ef­forts, pro­duc­ing po­e­try, child­ren’s sto­ries, es­says, and bi­o­gra­phies (her bi­o­gra­phy of Ab­ra­ham Lin­coln sold 20,000 co­pies). She al­so ed­it­ed a Un­i­ver­sal­ist mag­a­zine, and, urged by Rev. Olym­pia Brown, she event­u­al­ly be­came a Uni­ver­sal­ist min­is­ter (the first wo­man or­dained in New Eng­land). She served church­es in Hing­ham and Walt­ham, Mass­a­chu­setts; New Ha­ven, Con­nec­ti­cut, and Jer­sey Ci­ty, New Jer­sey. Her works in­clude:
Life of George Pea­bo­dy
Women of the Cen­tu­ry (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: B. B. Russ­ell, 1877)

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Texts by Phoebe A. Hanaford (41)sort ascendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
Young man, afar from home, sweet homePhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)2
When youth and health their roses bringPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)2
When from the scenes of earth I turnPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)3
We praise thee, Father, Thou who didst, in thy creativePhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)3
Voyager on life's stormy oceanPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)2
To yonder glorious landMrs. P. A. Hanaford (Author)2
To the Sabbath school we comePhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)2
'Tis better to be temperatePhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)2
Thou art, O God, the Giver great, Of allPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)3
This life is all a battle fieldMrs. P. A. Hanaford (Author)2
The temperance pledge for life we takePhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)2
The strife for freedomPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)2
The sailor on the boundless seaPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)3
The murderous cup no more I'll takePhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)3
Temperate in dress, I will not wear apparel rich and gayPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)3
Shun, O shun the drunkard's doomPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)2
Ring the bells, the golden hoursPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)4
Rally O ye friends of temperancePhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)English3
Praise, praise to him, O Lord on highPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)3
Our little band is full of hopePhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)2
Our home is beyond the tidePhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)2
O speed thee on, thou temperance shipPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)2
O look not on the wine cup, friendPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)3
O God of glory, God of grace (Hanaford)Phoebe A. Hanaford (Author)English2
Now the ills of earth surround usPhoebe Hanaford (Author)English3
Not they are happiest who possessPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)3
No power but thine, O, God could bid The rolling waves be calmPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)2
Miriam's song we'll echoPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)2
In that better landMrs. J. H. Hanaford (Author)2
In life's fair dawn all bright and gayPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)3
In childhood's hour with careless joyPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)2
He's gone to that fair landMrs. P. A. Hanaford (Author)2
Glorious God, we come to bless theePhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)2
Give me a glass of water coldPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)3
Faith works by love, and purifiesPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)2
Come unto me, earth's weary onesPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)3
Come, join our youthful, happy bandPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)2
Cast thy bread upon the waters Thinking not 'tis thrown awayPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)English82
Cast thy bread upon the waters, Ye who have but scant supplyPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)English6
Blest be the sacred tie that bindsPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)English2
Amid the hours that rapid flyPhoebe A. Hanaford (Author)English13
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