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Elizabeth Akers Allen
1832 - 1911 Person Name: Elizabeth Akers Author of "The time for toil is past, and night has come" in Hymns and Tunes Allen, Elizabeth (Chase) Akers. (Strong, Maine, October 9, 1832-August 7, 1911, Tuckahow, NY). Daughter of Thomas and Mercy Barton Chase. Married Marshall Taylor (1851-1857), Paul Akers (1860-1861), and Elijah M. Allen (1865-1911). Attended Farmington (Maine) Academy (later Maine State Teachers College). Taught briefly. Associate editor in Portland, Maine, of the Transcript (1855-1859) and the Daily Advertiser (1863-1865) and volunteer worker among the hospitalized soldiers. Contribute of essays, letters, and poems to various newspapers and magazines (chiefly the Atlantic Monthly) from her fifteenth year on, using the pseudonym "Florence Percy" for the first few years. Published her poems in book form from time to time. Allen was one of the favorite household poets of her time, but is now remembered chiefly for one poem, "Rock me to sleep, mother," first published in 1860. Its well-known opening lines are:
Backward, turn backward, O Time in your flight,
Make me a child again just for tonight.
-Anastasia Van Burkalow, DNAH Archives
Elizabeth Akers Allen
Henry S. Rupp
1827 - 1898 Person Name: Henry S. Rupp, 1826-1898 Composer of "BRINGING HOME OUR SHEAVES" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 Rupp, Henry S. (Near Shiremanstown, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, 1827?--January 14, 1898). Ordained as deacon January 17, 1878 and served the Slate Hill congregation.
Additional family history is available in the file on Rupp.
--DNAH Archives
Henry S. Rupp
