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Grace Wilbur Conant

1858 - 1948 Composer of "[Which ever way the wind doth blow]" in Songs for Little People Pseudonym: A. B. Ponsonby. Born: Sep­tem­ber 9, 1858, Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts. Died: Ap­ril 7, 1948, Malden, Mass­a­chu­setts. Grace re­mained sin­gle all her life. Her mid­dle name was her mo­ther’s maid­en name. She served as mu­sic­al ed­it­or for the Kin­der­gar­ten Review for at least six years, star­ting in 1908. Her works in­clude: Songs for Lit­tle Peo­ple, with Fran­ces Weld Dan­i­el­son (Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts: The Pil­grim Press, 1905) Worship and Song, with Ben­ja­min S. Win­ches­ter (Pilg­rim Press, 1913) Religious Dan­gers of Mo­dern Ten­den­cies in So-Called Re­li­gious Songs, 1917 Song and Play for Child­ren, with Fran­ces Weld Dan­iel­son (Pil­grim Press, 1925) --The Cyber Hymnal
Grace Wilbur Conant

Caroline A. Mason

1823 - 1890 Author of "Whichever Way the Wind Doth Blow" in Songs for Little People Mason, Caroline Atherton, née Briggs, daughter of Dr. Calvin Briggs, of Marblehead, b. there July 27, 1823, married Charles Mason, a lawyer at Fitchburg, in 1853, and d. there June 13, 1890. She published a volume of poems as Utterance: or Private Voices to the Public Heart, 1852. Her Lost Ring and other Poems was issued in 1891. Of her hymns the following are in common use:— 1. I cannot walk in darkness long. [Evening.] This begins with st. v. of her poem on eventide, "At cool of day with God I walk." In her Lost Ring, 1891, p. 165. 2. 0 God. I thank Thee for each sight. [The Joy of Living.] From her Lost Ring, Dec, 1891, p. 164, where it is entitled "A Matin Hymn," and begins "I lift the sash and gaze abroad." 3. The changing years, eternal God. [Adoration.] Written for the Bicentennial of the First Cong. Church, Marblehead, Aug. 13, 1884 (Lost Ring, 1891, p. 174). It begins "The changing centuries, O God." Of these Nos. 1 and 2 are in Putnam's Singers & Songs, 1875, pp. 464-5. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Caroline A. Mason

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