1799-1859
George W. Doane (1799-1859)

May 27, 1799, Tren­ton, New Jer­sey. Doane was named af­ter Amer­i­can Pres­i­dent George Wash­ing­ton, be­cause he was born the year Wash­ing­ton died.

Ap­ril, 1859, Bur­ling­ton, New Jer­sey.

St. Ma­ry’s Epis­co­pal Church, Bur­ling­ton, New Jer­sey.

Doane’s Grave

After grad­u­at­ing from Un­ion Coll­ege, Doane took a po­si­tion as as­sist­ant at Trin­i­ty Church in New York. He went on to be­come pro­fess­or of rhe­tor­ic and belles-lettres at Trin­ity Coll­ege, Hartford, Con­nec­ti­cut; rec­tor at Trin­i­ty Church, Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts (hymn­ist Phillips Brooks pas­tored there lat­er); and Epis­co­pal bi­shop of New Jer­sey (1832). Doane al­so helped found Bur­ling­ton Coll­ege and St. Mary’s Hall Doane Aca­de­my in Bur­ling­ton, New Jer­sey. His works in­clude:

  1. Belovèd, It Is Well!
  2. Brightness of the Fa­ther’s Glo­ry
  3. Broken-Hearted, Weep No More
  4. Child That Kneel­est Meek­ly Here
  5. Father of Mer­cies, Hear
  6. Fling Out the Ban­ner
  7. Grant Me, Lord, Thy Grac­es Three
  8. He Came Not with His Heav­en­ly Crown
  9. Lift Not Thou the Wail­ing Voice
  10. Lord, Should We Leave Thy Hal­lowed Feet
  11. Once More, O Lord, Thy Sign
  12. Perfect Through Suf­fer­ing May It Be
  13. Return and Come to God
  14. Softly Now the Light of Day
  15. Thou Art the Way
  16. To Thee, O Lord, With Dawn­ing Light
  17. When Dark­ness Once at God’s Com­mand
  18. Yes, It Is a Faith­ful Say­ing
  19. Young and Hap­py While Thou Art