Breck’s fam­i­ly moved from Ver­mont to Vine­land, New Jer­sey, and she spent most of her life in south­ern New Jer­sey. She mar­ried Frank Breck, and they moved to Or­e­gon be­tween 1910 and 1920. A de­vout Christ­ian, she was de­vot­ed to her hus­band and five daugh­ters. She had no sense of pitch, and could not car­ry a tune, but she had the gift of po­e­tic rhy­thm, and wrote more than 2,000 po­ems. She was not par­ti­cu­lar­ly ro­bust in health, and had to take fre­quent rests while do­ing chores. At such times, she would sit in her fa­vo­rite rock­ing chair, take up a note­book, and write po­e­try, oft­en with a ba­by on her knee, or play­ing at her feet. Her works in­clude:

• To Com­fort Thee, and Other Vers­es (Port­land, Or­e­gon: Me­tro­pol­i­tan Print­ing Com­pa­ny, 1927)

• Hustad, p. 211
• Loyer, p. 30
• Reynolds, p. 258

1. All the World for Je­sus
2. Are You Win­ning Souls?
3. Arise and Shine!
4. At Mo­ther’s Grave
5. Be Strong
6. Columbia’s Song
7. Face to Face with Christ, My Sa­vior
8. Forward!
9. Go to the Deeps of God’s Prom­ise
10. Have You Found the Sav­ior Pre­cious?
11. He Did Not Die in Vain
12. Help Some­bo­dy To­day
13. I Can­not Get Be­yond His Love
14. I Want Ev­ery­bo­dy to Know
15. If I May but See Him
16. I’ll Count My Bless­ings
17. It Is Not Fair
18. Jesus Is Vic­tor
19. Make Him Known
20. Nailed to the Cross
21. Nobody Told Me of Je­sus
22. Savior for You, The
23. Some One Who Knows
24. Step in Any­where
25. Tell Thy Life-Sto­ry to Je­sus
26. There’s a Beau­ti­ful City © 1935
27. Valley of Peace, The
28. When Love Shines In
29. You Mean to Be Saved—But When?