Anna Garlin Spencer

Spencer, Anna Garlin (Attleboro, Massachusetts, April 17, 1851--February 12, 1931, New York). Married Rev. William H. Spencer. She was ordained as a Unitarian minister, and was a lecturer and author of books on social problems. In 1896 in her Orders of Service for Public Worship she included her song entitled "The Marching Song of Workers," beginning "Hail the hero workers of the mighty past" set to ST. GERTRUDE. In was included in Hymns of the United Church, 1924, in Songs of Work and Worship, and in Hymns of the Spirit, 1937.

--Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives