About Martha Arnold Boughton
Lived 1857 – 1928 (aged 71). Martha Arnold Boughton was an American songwriter, poet, writer, biographer and woman's club movement in the United States.
Martha A. Boughton (, Arnold; February 18, 1857 – May 18, 1928) was an American educator, author, poet, and clubwoman. She wrote biographies as well as religious music and lyrics. Among her publications can be counted Memoir of Rev. John Motte Arnold, D.D., The Quest of a Soul, and Other Verse (1911), Onward (1918), and Mystery and Other Poems (1926).
Early life and education Martha ("Mattie") Elizabeth Arnold was born in Corunna, Michigan, February 18, 1857. (According to Boughton's obituary in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, she was born in 1856.)
Personal life In religion, Boughton affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church. She traveled in Europe summers of 1895 and 1906. After having been ill for two years, she died in Brooklyn's Caledonian Hospital, May 18, 1928.
Selected works Memoir of Rev. John Motte Arnold, D.D. (1885) The Quest of a Soul, and Other Verse (1911) Onward (1918) Mystery and Other Poems (1926) Stars Through Cypress Trees
Songs "Little Christian soldiers" (1903) "Onward, little soldiers, Battle 'gainst the wrong"
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American educator, author (1857-1928)
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Martha Arnold Boughton was born on 18 February 1857 in Corunna.
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Martha Arnold Boughton died on 18 May 1928 in Brooklyn.
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