Author Bio Information
Pollard, Adelaide Addison's bio information
Thursday, November 27, 1862 - Thursday, December 20, 1934
Born: November 27, 1862, Bloomfield, Iowa (birth name: Sarah Addison Pollard).
Died: December 20, 1934, New York City:
As seventy-two year old Miss Adelaide was enroute from her New York
City home to a New Jersey town during the Christmas Holidays in 1934
where she was to hold some religious meetings, she became critically
ill in the New York City railroad station. She was rushed to a nearby
Y.W.C.A. home where she died shortly thereafter, death being
attributed to a ruptured appendix.
Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Fort Madison, Iowa.
Author of over 100 hymns and Gospel songs, Pollard was educated in Denmark, Iowa; Valparaiso, Indiana; at the Boston School of Oratory; and the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois. She taught in Chicago, and at the Christian and Missionary Alliance Training School in New York. She worked for a while with evangelist John Alexander Dowie, and also in Africa, leaving for Scotland after World War I began. She later returned to New York.
Hymns
Have Thine Own Way, Lord
Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/p/o/pollard_aa.html
Died: December 20, 1934, New York City:
As seventy-two year old Miss Adelaide was enroute from her New York
City home to a New Jersey town during the Christmas Holidays in 1934
where she was to hold some religious meetings, she became critically
ill in the New York City railroad station. She was rushed to a nearby
Y.W.C.A. home where she died shortly thereafter, death being
attributed to a ruptured appendix.
Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Fort Madison, Iowa.
Author of over 100 hymns and Gospel songs, Pollard was educated in Denmark, Iowa; Valparaiso, Indiana; at the Boston School of Oratory; and the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois. She taught in Chicago, and at the Christian and Missionary Alliance Training School in New York. She worked for a while with evangelist John Alexander Dowie, and also in Africa, leaving for Scotland after World War I began. She later returned to New York.
Hymns
Have Thine Own Way, Lord
Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/p/o/pollard_aa.html
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