Mary Sparkes Wheeler
(1835-1919)
British-born American author, poet, preacher
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Mary Sparkes Wheeler (née, Sparkes; 21 June 1835 – 21 January 1919) was a British-born American author, poet, and lecturer. She wrote the lyrics to several hymns, including two well-known soldiers' decoration hymns. Her poems were set to music by Professor Sweeney, P. P. Bliss, Kirkpatrick and others. She was the author of Poems for the Fireside (1883), Modern Cosmogony and the Bible (1880), First decade of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church : with sketches of its missionaries (1883), As it is in Heaven (1906), and Consecration and purity, or, The will of God concerning me (1913).
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21 June 1835 near Tintern Abbey, England
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21 January 1919 (aged 83) Ocean Grove, New Jersey, U.S.
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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