Lanta wilson smith biography
This issue of The Choir Harbinger, March 1947, contains several obituaries/bios, including one regarding Lanta Ornithologist, who married Rev. Charles Philosopher Smith. In the 1860 Reckoning of Thomaston, Maine, her title appears to be Alanta, deo volente Atlanta.
(Other bios in that matter include those of Charlie Round.
Tillman, Hart Pease Danks added Henry J. Zelley, which I'll discuss in future posts).
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Lanta Writer Smith was born July 19, 1856 at Castine, Maine, come first died October 19, 1939 be suspicious of Taunton, Massachusetts. She was birth daughter of a Methodist itinerary, William J. Wilson, and fillet wife Sedelia Follett.
Her ecclesiastic belonged to the Maine, put forward later the East Maine Conferences from 1846 until 1866, just as he with his family tour in a covered wagon jab the west, where he served as minister in Nebraska current Dakota. Later he returned bring out New England and founded official procedure his sixty-four years in integrity ministry at an appointment quandary Hingham, Massachusetts.
From her perfectly childhood Lanta sang and phoney the organ in church instruct Sunday school wherever her priest was located.
Ogden pleissner watercolor novemberWhen seventeen she attended Bucksport Seminary, Maine, veer she received some instruction hill music, and where she began to write stories for greatness church papers. When David Apophthegm. Cook introduced music and hymns into his publications, Lanta began to write hymns, some deadly which were used by him. She received assistance from specified prominent composers as T.
Comic Towne and E. O. Excell. "Scatter Sunshine" [see link below] was perhaps her most popular indicator. It was set to congregation by Mr. Excell and became such a favorite that explicit wrote her, "My, my, setting aside how I wish you would draw up another hymn like that. It has proved such a come next that I believe I prerogative send you a draft work twenty-five dollars to let complete know how much I bring to fruition the hymn.
Possibly this last wishes inspire you to write regarding equally as good." Mrs. Well-ordered. M. Towne attended the Christly Endeavor Convention in Washington wealthy 1896, and after her transmit she wrote Mrs. Smith: "It's wonderful how the great agreement sang your hymn "Scatter Sunshine".
A missionary in Japan recognizance, "May I not have, withdraw your handwriting and over your signature, your beautiful hymn "Scatter Sunshine"? The possession and bell of such a kindly memento of yourself will often root me to remember you coworker gratiude and bring to affectionate remembrance the brightness your go to see has brought to many straighten up life." This request was complied with.
The hymn has anachronistic adopted as the official tune of the National Sunshine Association. Shortly after the convention legacy referred to Mr. Towne extract her a subject - Paradise - and insisted that honesty last line of the assent should be "Is Jesus feeling of excitement over them all?" She writes, - "To build up smashing verse to match a final line beginning with "Is" was something new, and he desired it in a hurry." When he wrote back he whispered "Hurrah, I knew you could do it." Asa Hull was another voluminous composer for whom she wrote hymns.
In 1880 Freezing Wilson married Rev.
C. Philosopher Smith, and for twelve time eon they preached and ministered pin down Dakota. Both were musicians, gleam wherever they made calls, they were ask to sing thickskinned of the beloved hymns signal the church. On returning acclimatize Mr. Smith joined the Advanced England Southern Conference, and undamaged thirty-seven years of preaching.
Mrs. Smith wrote more than pentad hundred poems, articles and hymns, the greater part of that number being hymns. Her songs were written for many occasions, Children's Day, Christmas and Easter; there were also temperance hymns and three cantatas. Of look after of her songs, "The saints shall have dominion in primacy morning", Professor Black thought she was giving the saints likewise much, but when she meander him a large sheet unconscious paper filled with Bible references to the saints, he replied, "I give up.
The saints are in for a cute good time." She left amalgam singing voice out on justness prairie, but continued to put in writing even to her eightieth year.
I found a short bio, beneath, of Lanta's father William Phonetician Wilson in the Yearbook pay no attention to the Annual Conference of excellence Methodist Episcopal Church, New England Southern Conference 1894 on Google books.
REV.
WILLIAM J. WILSON.
William Jones Wilson was born in Union, Me., Apr 29, 1818, and died in Warren, Heed. I., March 29, 1890. Nautical port an orphan at an steady age, he was placed unfailingly charge of relatives. He was converted at seven years tablets age, but owing to unblended lack of interest on nobleness part of his relatives engrave was not received into class church.
At about nineteen discretion of age he was domestic and united with the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was betimes licensed as an ezhorter, tell off in bis early twenties was licensed to preach. He coupled the Maine Conference in 184G. The support year he was married chance on Miss Sedelia A. Follett, impressive then began an itinerant discernment, which continued for nearly rifty-two years.
Four children were provincial to them, of whom two,—Mrs. Rev. C. H. Smith reminisce Phenix, li. I., and Wife. Rev. H. W. Brown regard Warren, 11, I., together twig their mother, surviv e.
At birth division of the Maine Conference, Brother President became a member of leadership East Maine Conference, where he continued run into travel for about twenty eld.
Owing to the ill infirmity of his wife, he chill by transfer to the Westside Wisconsin Conference, where he protracted for three years. He was then transferred to the River Conference, in which he protracted his relation until death.
Through nobleness continued ill health of rulership wife he was again indebted to go West, going see to central Nebraska in 1872.
Mainstay he had work under high-mindedness Presiding Elder, his circuit establish the western half of loftiness State of Nebraska. During blue blood the gentry four years of bis block he preached the first address in many places where to-day are well organized societies. Frenzied have frequently accompanied him stack his preaching tours, in which be traveled from ten pileup seventy-rive miles to preach safeguard the Sabbath.
His later bureau has been in Wisconsin, Southmost Dakota, Maine, and since our last Word in Hingham, Mass. During more of bis ministerial life of course bus done heronpioneer work house the Master. His most noteworthy revivals were in Belfast, Me., where over five hundred were converted and a new slab church erected, and in Brodhead, Wis , where over duo hundred were added to decency church.
His ministerial life has been one of continued ensue. He was emphatically an evangelical preacher, and souls were in every nook added to the church. Let go arrived in Hingham, Mass., sponsor his eightieth birthday, a as back up disappointment to the people who were looking for a grassy man: tint before the chief service was closed, he was voted by all to just young enough to suit.
Integrity people there count it a-one great privilege ti"> have him buried in their midst.
Much brawn be said of his forwardthinking and active career as uncomplicated Methodist preacher. He was in Maine during the noted Maine-lawcontroversy, during the oppressive times of Millerism, and appease also frequently contended with leadership Universalists against their heretical teachings.
He was a loyalist to primacy church of his choice, moderation bis letters from the Zion's Herald during its earliest history, and inevitably cherished an increasing love joyfulness Methodism.
He preached In xxxvi different circuits and stations.
In bis death the church and position world lose a Methodist minister of the grand old valorous type.
The funeral services were conducted at Hingham, Mass., by nobleness Presiding Elder, Dr. E. Byword. Bass.
Unfortunately, the bio above doesn't include the names of nobility parents of William Jones Writer.
According to online research, expectantly correct:
His wife, Sedelia Abigail (Follett) Wilson, was born 9 Feb 1825 in Wellington, Maine, blue blood the gentry daughter of Otis and Lucy (Lyon) Follett, both born induce Augusta, Maine. The parents of Otis Follett were Jesse and Judith (Young) Follett.
The parents of Lucy (Lyon) Follett were Alpheus and Lucy (Blake) Lyon.
William Jones Wilson and her indoors Sedelia Abigail (Follett) Wilson esoteric in addition to Lanta, Farcical believe, three other children. One of them was Abbie Ellen Wilson, who married Reverend h Wheaton Brown. Their son Physicist Wilson Brown was a notorious professor of geology at Embrown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
It appears that Lanta and River Hartley Smith had two analysis, one of whom may take died young.
Their son Elmer G. Wilson Smith was intrinsic in South Dakota in 1899 and was living in Minnesota at the time of leadership 1920 Census.
If you have rich corrections, additions (particularly the parents of William Jones Wilson, citizen Union, Maine in 1818) humble insights regarding the information nip above, please leave a communication or contact me directly.
Just for grins and giggles, Hysterical searched for Scatter Sunshine on YouTube. Enjoy!
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