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Mary Ann Collier

Short Name: Mary Ann Collier
Full Name: Collier, Mary Ann, 1810-1866
Birth Year: 1810
Death Year: 1866

Collier, Mary Ann, author of "The sun that lights yon broad blue sky" (Welcoming a Pastor), in The Psalmist, &c, by Stow and Smith, 1843, daughter of the Rev. William Collier, an American Baptist Minister, was born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, Dec. 23, 1810, and died at Alexandria, Virginia, Dec. 25, 1866.

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


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