Carrie Ellis Breck was born 22 January 1855 in Vermont and raised in a Christian home. She later moved to Vineland, New Jersey, 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. Go to person page >
Display Title: The Christian's TestFirst Line: Speak as thy Savior would have theeTune Title: [Speak as thy Savior would have thee]Author: Mrs. Frank A. BreckDate: 1903
Display Title: The Christian's TestFirst Line: Speak as thy Savior would have theeTune Title: [Speak as thy Savior would have thee]Author: Mrs. Frank A. BreckDate: 1903Subject: Christian Life |
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