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J. H. Hanaford
b. 1819 Person Name: J. A. Hanaford Hymnal Title: Gems and Jewels Author of "Cast Thy Bread upon the Waters" in Gems and Jewels Hanaford, J. H., M.D., born in New Hampton, New Hampshire, Jan. 27, 1819, and educated for the medical profession. He arranged the first edition of Phineas Stowe's Ocean Melodies, 1848, and for it he composed 19 hymns. Some of these are signed "J. H. H.," and others "J. H. Hanaford." One on Setting Sail, "Great God, at Thy command," is specially good for its purpose.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
J. H. Hanaford
Phoebe J. Hanaford
Person Name: Mrs. Phoebe J. Hanaford Hymnal Title: Gospel Songs No. 2 Author of "Cast Thy Bread" in Gospel Songs No. 2
Phoebe J. Hanaford
Phoebe A. Hanaford
1829 - 1921 Person Name: J. H. Hanaford Hymnal Title: Songs of Grace and Glory Author of "Cast Thy Bread upon the Waters" in Songs of Grace and Glory 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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Phoebe A. Hanaford
J. H. Fillmore
1849 - 1936 Hymnal Title: Songs of Grace and Glory Composer of "[Cast thy bread upon the waters]" in Songs of Grace and Glory James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer.
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J. H. Fillmore
