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(1820-1915) Poet, hymn writer. Blinded at six weeks of age, Fanny Crosby entered New York Institute for the Blind at age 15, and afterward taught English and history. During the course of her life she would write at least 9,000 hymns. She also wrote A Wreath of Colombia’s Flowers (1858), a collection of secular stories and poems in the same tone as her hymns, as well as Memories of Eighty Years (1906). She was born in Putnam County.
Full Name
Frances (Fanny) J. Crosby
Locations
Queens
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