Phoebe’s par­ents were Meth­od­ist evan­gel­ists Dr. Wal­ter C. Palm­er and Phoe­be Wor­rall Palm­er. At age 16, she mar­ried Jo­seph Fair­field Knapp, se­cond pres­i­dent of the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Life In­sur­ance Com­pa­ny. They be­longed to the John Street Meth­od­ist Church in New York Ci­ty, as did Phoe­be’s close friend Fan­ny Cros­by. Af­ter her hus­band’s death, Phoe­be was left with a large in­come, much of which she gave to char­i­ty. Phoe­be had a large pipe or­gan in her apart­ment in the Sa­voy Ho­tel in New York Ci­ty, and wrote over 500 hymn tunes.

• Erickson, p. 330
• Hughes, p. 459
• Hustad, p. 269
• Julian, p. 1641
• Nutter, p. 460
• Reynolds, p. 333

1. Blooming All for Je­sus
2. Lead Me, Lead Me

1. Assurance
2. Behold Me Stand­ing at the Door
3. Cleansing Wave
4. Come with Re­joic­ing
5. Fátima
6. My All Is on the Al­tar
7. Nearer the Cross
8. Open the Gates of the Tem­ple
9. Sarajevo
10. Welcome to Glo­ry