Please give today to support Hymnary.org during one of only two fund drives we run each year. Each month, Hymnary serves more than 1 million users from around the globe, thanks to the generous support of people like you, and we are so grateful.
Tax-deductible donations can be made securely online using this link.
Alternatively, you may write a check to CCEL and mail it to:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 3201 Burton SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
| 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
================================
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
Texts by Frances Whitmarsh Wile (4) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
|---|---|---|---|
| All beautiful the march of days | Frances Whitmarsh Wile (Author) | English | 86 |
| Comrade, join the ranks we gather | Frances Whitmarsh Wile (Author) | 2 | |
| My holy day my calm delight | Frances Whitmarsh Wile (Author) | 2 | |
| Prayer is the opening of a door | Frances Whitmarsh Wile (Author) | 2 |
My Starred Hymns
My FlexScores
My Hymnals
My Purchased Files