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Carrie Ellis Breck

1855 - 1934 Person Name: Mrs. Frank A. Breck Author of "The Valley Of Peace" in Edward MacHugh's Treasury of Gospel Hymns and Poems Carrie Ellis Breck was born 22 January 1855 in Vermont and raised in a Christian home. She later moved to Vineland, New Jersy, and then to Portland, Oregon. She wrote verse and prose for religious and household publications, In 1884 she married Frank A. Breck. She has written between fourteen and fifteen hundred hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) See also Mrs. Frank A. Breck.

I. H. Meredith

1872 - 1962 Composer of "[There's a beautiful valley of peace] " in Edward MacHugh's Treasury of Gospel Hymns and Poems Pseudonyms Charles C. Ackley (taken from his wife’s name, Clarissa Ackley Cowan) Broughton Edwards Floyd Engle (from his address on Floyd Street in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey) Arthur Grantley Bruce Kennedy See also Ackley, Chas. C. 1872-1962 See also Edwards, Broughton