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Glenna Willis

Transcriber of "[Oon da shon suh, ta bain duh mun]" in Voices

H. M. Willis

Composer of "[Draw me, dear Saviour, still closer to Thee]" in Quartette

J. Willis

Author of "Ry varavaran-danitra o!" in Protestant Madagascar Hymnal, 2001

J. E. Willis

Composer of "Our Blest Redeemer" in Victory

1824 - 1908 Author of "Father, Hear the Prayer We Offer" Willis, Love Maria, née Whitcomb, b. June 9, 1824, at Hancock, N.H., and married in 1858, to Frederick L. H. Willis, M.D. She lived for many years at Rochester, N.Y., and now (1907) resides at Glenora, on Seneca Lake, N.Y. Her hymn:— Father, hear the prayer I offer [Aspiration] appeared in Tiffany's Monthly, 1859. In Longfellow & Johnson's Hymns of the Spirit, 1864, No. 558, it was given in 4 stanzas of 4 lines, as "Father, hear the prayer we offer," and as "Anon." The text was in great measure rewritten, probably by S. Longfellow. This 1864 text has come into somewhat extensive use in England and America, the latest to adopt it being The English Hymnal, 1906. For these facts we are mainly indebted to the Rev. W.C. Gannett, Rochester, N.Y. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)