Born: Feb­ru­a­ry 3, 1832, Pres­ton, Con­nec­ti­cut.

Died: De­cem­ber 23, 1915, Rhode Is­land.

Buried: Spring Grove Cem­e­te­ry and Ar­bo­re­tum, Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio.

A gift­ed mu­si­cian, Doane helped di­rect mu­sic while at­tend­ing the Wood­stock Aca­de­my; with­in two years he had pub­lished his first com­po­si­tion. Al­though he called mu­sic his “avo­ca­tion,” he pro­duced over 2,000 hymn tunes in his life­time. How­ever, his main trade was sec­u­lar: He was pres­i­dent of the J. A. Fay wood­work­ing ma­chin­ery com­pa­ny, and an ex­treme­ly suc­cess­ful bus­i­ness­man. He al­so served as Sun­day School sup­er­in­tend­ent and choir di­rect­or at the Mount Au­burn Bap­tist Church in Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio, and be­queathed large sums to var­i­ous caus­es. The Doane Me­mor­i­al Mu­sic Build­ing in Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois, was named af­ter him. His works in­clude:

Sources

Lyrics

  1. All-Seeing Eye, The
  2. Feast of Bless­ing
  3. Like a Bird to Thee
  4. No One Knows but Je­sus
  5. Pray for the Bless­ing
  6. Sounding the Watch-Cry
  7. When We All Get Home to Glo­ry

Music

  1. Adora­tion
  2. Alstyne
  3. Avalon
  4. Beautiful Vale of Rest
  5. Beautiful Wit­ness
  6. Benjamin
  7. Bethesda Is Open
  8. Bless This Hour of Pray­er
  9. Blessed Are They That Be­lieve
  10. Blessed Feast, The
  11. Children Sing
  12. Choose Ye To­day
  13. Christian Bro­ther, o’er the Main
  14. Church of Christ, O Sleep No More
  15. City of Gold
  16. Colby
  17. Come, Great De­liv­er­er, Come!
  18. Cross of Je­sus
  19. Dear Sab­bath Home
  20. Dew of Mer­cy
  21. Do All the Good You Can
  22. Donora
  23. Evangel
  24. Faith in Je­sus
  25. Few More March­ings Wea­ry, A
  26. First Com­mand­ment
  27. Good Old Way, The
  28. Guard the Bi­ble Well
  29. Hand in Hand
  30. Hark! There Comes a Whis­per
  31. He Gave His Life for Thee
  32. Help Us to La­bor On
  33. Hide Me
  34. His Words Are True
  35. Hour by Hour
  36. I Am An­chored Safe
  37. I Am Thine, O Lord
  38. If Any Man Hear
  39. If I Come to Je­sus
  40. Into the Depths of the Sea
  41. Is It There?
  42. Jesus Calls Thee
  43. Jesus Is Pass­ing This Way
  44. Jesus Was a Child Like Me
  45. Just a Word for Je­sus
  46. Keep Me Whol­ly Thine
  47. King of Zi­on
  48. Labor On
  49. Lay It Down
  50. Let Your Light Shine Out
  51. Like a Bird to Thee
  52. Lion of Ju­dah, The
  53. Moments of Pray­er
  54. More Like Je­sus
  55. More Love to Thee, O Christ
  56. Mother’s Good­bye, The
  57. My Pre­cious Bi­ble
  58. Near the Cross
  59. Never Will I Cease to Love Him
  60. No Tears in Hea­ven
  61. One Bless­èd Hour with Je­sus
  62. Only a Lit­tle Way
  63. Only a Step
  64. Only One Name
  65. Only Thy Gar­ment’s Hem
  66. Our Fes­tive Song
  67. Out of Bond­age
  68. Pass Me Not, O Gen­tle Sav­ior
  69. Patriot’s Pray­er, The
  70. Pilgrim’s Jour­ney, The
  71. Precious Name
  72. Preston
  73. Prodigal Child, The
  74. Pure With­in
  75. Rescue
  76. Rest in Je­sus
  77. Rest over Jor­dan
  78. Sacred Fount­ain
  79. Safe in the Arms of Je­sus
  80. Saved by the Blood
  81. Savior, More Than Life
  82. Sentinel up­on the Heights
  83. Some Sweet Day, By and By
  84. Sound the Alarm!
  85. Speed for Thy Life
  86. Stand by the Right
  87. Sweet Voice, The
  88. Tell Me the Old, Old Sto­ry
  89. There Is Peace
  90. They That Over­come
  91. Though Your Sins Be as Scar­let
  92. ’Tis Not Far to Je­sus
  93. ’Tis the Bless­èd Hour of Pray­er
  94. To God Be the Glo­ry
  95. To Je­sus I Will Go
  96. To the Work
  97. Too Late
  98. Tread Soft­ly
  99. Tried and True
  100. Trust in the Prom­ise
  101. Trusting and Hop­ing
  102. Trusting Je­sus
  103. ’Twill Not Be Long
  104. Vision
  105. We All Can Do Some­thing for Je­sus
  106. We Praise Thee
  107. Welcome Hour of Pray­er
  108. We’ll Bat­tle to the End
  109. We’ll Give Our Hearts to Je­sus
  110. What Wilt Thou Have Me to Do?
  111. When the Bur­den Bear­er Came
  112. Why Do the Ho­ly An­gels Sing?
  113. Will Je­sus Find Us Watch­ing?
  114. Will You Come to the Cross? (1904)