Crosby traced her ancestry from Ann Brigham and Simon Crosby who arrived in Boston in 1635,New England Historic Genealogical Society, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal, Vol. 20.Ĭrosby was proud of her Puritan heritage, and said in 1903: "My ancestors were Puritans my family tree rooted around Plymouth Rock". Bernard Ruffin, John and Mercy were possibly first cousins, however "by the time Fanny Crosby came to write her memoirs, the fact that her mother and father were related … had become a source of embarrassment, and she maintained that she did not know anything about his lineage".Ruffin (1995), p. and his second wife, Mercy Crosby, both of whom were relatives of Revolutionary War spy Enoch Crosby. She was the only child of John Crosby, a widower who had a daughter from his first marriage,Blumhofer (2005), p. Early life and educationįrances Jane "Fanny" Crosby was born on March 24, 1820, in the village of Brewster, about north of New York City.Blumhofer (2005), pp. Stebbins stated, ‘There was probably no writer in her day who appealed more to the valid experience of the Christian life or who expressed more sympathetically the deep longings of the human heart than Fanny Crosby.’ And many of her hymns have stood the test of time, still resonating with believers today". Nonetheless, they were meaningful to her contemporaries and hymn writer George C. Ninde, The Story of the American Hymn (New York, NY: Abingdon Press, 1921), According to Glimpses of Christian History, Crosby’s "hymns have sometimes been criticized as ‘gushy and mawkishly sentimental’ and critics have often attacked both her writing and her theology. Julian, the editor of the Dictionary of Hymnology, says that ‘they are, with few exceptions, very weak and poor,’ and others insist that they are ‘crudely sentimental.’ Some hymn books will give them no place whatever".Edward S. Her hymns… have been severely criticised. Ninde wrote: "None would claim that she was a poetess in any large sense. Root, until his resignation in November 1850.Carder (2008), p. While teaching at the NYIB, Crosby studied music under George F. who was a distant cousin who had been a well-known concert singer.Ruffin (1976), p. 137 In 1906 Crosby composed both the words and music for "The Blood-Washed Throng", which was published and copyrighted by gospel singer Mary Upham Currier,Crosby (1906), p. ![]() In fact, in 1903 Crosby claimed that "Spring Hymn" was the only hymn she wrote both the words and music.Carleton (1903), p. While Crosby had musical training, she did not compose the melody for most of her lyrics. ![]() ![]() Cleaveland, as Crosby herself could write little more than her name. Her lyrics would usually be transcribed by Alexander Van Alstyne, or later by her half-sister Carolyn "Carrie" Ryder or her secretary Eva C. On one occasion Crosby composed 40 hymns before they were transcribed."Next Sunday Will be ‘Fanny Crosby’ Day", The Pittsburgh Press (March 19, 1905):40. Crosby described her hymn-writing process: ‘It may seem a little old-fashioned, always to begin one’s work with prayer, but I never undertake a hymn without first asking the good Lord to be my inspiration.’ Her capacity for work was incredible and often she would compose six or seven hymns a day."Biography", Papers of Fanny Crosby (Collection 35), (Wheaton, IL: Billy Graham Center Archives), Her poems and hymns were composed entirely in her mind and she worked on as many as twelve hymns at once before dictating them to an amenuensus.
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