About Mary Gardiner Brainard
Lived 1837 – 1905 (aged 68). Mary Gardiner Brainard was an American poet and writer.
Mary Gardiner Brainard (June 19, 1837 – November 30, 1905) was an American writer of religious poetry.
Biography Mary Gardiner Brainard was born in New London, Connecticut. She was daughter of William Fowler Brainard (1784-1844), a New London lawyer, whose uncle was the poet John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, and his second wife Sarah Ann Prentis.
Her poem "Not Knowing" first appeared in The Congregationalist, March 1869, and was set to music as a hymn by Philip Paul Bliss in the 1870s.
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American poet (1837-1905)
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Mary Gardiner Brainard was born on 19 June 1837 in United States.
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Mary Gardiner Brainard died on 30 November 1905.
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