Martha Oliver (other)
Martha Oliver may refer to: * Martha Capps Oliver (1845-1917), American poet and hymnwriter * Martha Cranmer Oliver Martha Cranmer Oliver (1834 – 20 December 1880), also known as Pattie Oliver or M. Oliver, was an English actress and theatre manager. Beginning as a child actor near her home in Salisbury, Oliver was performing in London by age 13. She playe ...

Martha Capps Oliver
Martha Capps Oliver (, Capps; pen name, Martha C. Oliver; August 27, 1845 – August 15, 1917) was an American poet and hymnwriter. She was the author of ''A Year of Sacred Song'' (1895), ''A Year's Good Wishes'' (1895), ''Round the Year with the Poets'' (1900), ''The Far West'', ''Easter Legend'', and ''Christmas Legend'', as well as several hundred Easter and Christmas booklets and poems, numerous songs, hymns, anthems, and cantatas. Oliver died in 1917. Early life and education Martha W. Capps was born in Jacksonville, Illinois Jacksonville is a city in Morgan County, Illinois, Morgan County, Illinois, United States. The population was 19,446 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Morgan County. It is home to Illinois College, Illinois School for the Deaf, and the ..., on August 27, 1845. Her father, Joseph Capps (1811-1872), was the son of a Kentucky slave-owner, but was himself an opponent of slavery, and therefore moved to Illinois as slavery was prohibited there. ...
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