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Frances Whitmarsh Wile

Frances Whitmarsh Wile
--cyberhymnal.org
Short Name: Frances Whitmarsh Wile
Full Name: Wile, Frances Whitmarsh, 1878-1939
Birth Year: 1878
Death Year: 1939

Wile, Mrs. Frances Whitmarsh. (Bristol Centre, New York, December 2, 1878--July 31, 1939, Rochester, N.Y.). Married A.J. Wile in 1901. Her lovely hymn for use in winter, beginning "All beautiful the march of days" was written about 1907 while she was a parishioner of Rev. William C. Gannett, in Rochester, N.Y., in consultation with him, and was included in Gannett and Hosmer's revised edition of Unity Hymns and Chorals, 1911, from which it passed into The New Hymn and Tune Book, 1914, and Hymns of the Spirit, 1937.

--Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

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Born: 1878, Bris­tol Val­ley, New York.

In her lat­er years, Wile lived in Ro­ches­ter, New York, where she helped found the Wo­men’s Ci­ty Club.

Hymns:
"All Beau­ti­ful the March of Days"

--cyberhymnal.org/bio

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Texts by Frances Whitmarsh Wile (5)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
All beautiful the march of daysFrances W. Wile (Author)English86
Comrade, join the ranks we gatherFrances Whitmarsh Wile (Author)English1
My holy day my calm delightFrances Whitmarsh Wile (Author)1
Prayer is the opening of a doorFrances Whitmarsh Wile (Author)1
The summer days are come againFrances Whitmarsh Wile (Author)English1
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