Crosby, Frances "Fanny"
- Time Period
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3/24/1820
 - 2/12/1915
- Description
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Fanny Crosby was blind six weeks following her birth in Brewster, NY, due to a physician’s mistake. Despite this, she was able to recite Scripture from a very young age, including memorizing the first four books of the Bible by the age of 10.After first writing poetry, she began to write hymns in 1864. Over the course of her life, she wrote between 5,500 and 9,000 hymns. The exact number is uncertain due to some written under pseudonyms to preserve modesty. She once said, "True hymns make themselves." "I never undertake a hymn without first asking the good Lord to be my inspiration." Some of her most famous hymns include: "Blessed Assurance;" "Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross;" "I Am Thine, O Lord," and "To God Be the Glory." Her hymns were so popular in the Methodist Church that they celebrated "Fanny Crosby Day" for a time.
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- Religious Groups
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- Events
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Fanny Crosby Writes "Blessed Assurance"
- Photographs
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Fanny Crosby portrait- Internet Archive- from Fanny Crosby's Story of Ninety-Four Years by S. Trevena Jackson
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Fanny Crosby portrait- Internet Archive- from Memories of Eighty Years by Fanny J. Crosby
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Fanny Crosby and Hubert Main- Internet Archive- from Fanny Crosby's Story of Ninety-Four Years by S. Trevena Jackson
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Fanny Crosby speaking- Internet Archive- from Memories of Eighty Years by Fanny J. Crosby
- Book/Journal Source(s)
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Reid, Daniel, Robert Linder, Bruce Shelley, and Harry Stout, 1990. Dictionary of Christianity in America. Downers Grove, IL.
- Web Source(s)
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http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/144009/Fanny-Crosby
Fanny Crosby - Encyclopedia Britannica
- Web Page Contributor
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Benjamin T. Gurrentz
Affliated with: Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D. in Sociology
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