词条 | Hannah E. Taylor |
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Hannah E. Barker Taylor (born August 18, 1835) was a poet and active member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Early lifeHannah E. Barker was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, on August 18, 1835. She was of English descent and Native American for five generations. Barker's father was born and bred in New Brunswick, where he married Elizabeth Ann Sewell. He moved to Hartford, Connecticut, and reared his family there.[1] Hannah Barker received her education in Fredricton and in Hartford. During her school life, her compositions were spoken of highly. Music was her passion, and, possessing a fine voice, it was the wish of her parents that she should study music as a profession.[1] CareerHannah Barker accepted a position as leading soprano in the First Baptist Church of Hartford, teaching music meanwhile.[1] During all those years, she was writing poems, but it was only towards the end of the 19th century that any of her compositions were published.[1] Hannah Taylor was an active member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; she was corresponding secretary of the Pasadena branch of the Women's National Indian Association, and was the recording secretary of the State Association.[1] Personal lifeIn 1874, Hannah E. Barker married George Taylor. The Taylors resided in Pasadena, California, where for several years George Taylor was the secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite book|last1=Willard|first1=Frances Elizabeth, 1839-1898|last2=Livermore|first2=Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905|title=A woman of the century; fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life|date=1893|publisher=Buffalo, N.Y., Moulton|page=705|url=https://archive.org/details/womanofcenturyfo00will|accessdate=8 August 2017}}{{PD-notice}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Hannah E.}} 7 : 1835 births|19th-century American poets|American women poets|Year of death missing|People from Fredericton|People from Pasadena, California|19th-century American women writers |
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