Isadore G. Jeffery Explained

Isadore G. Jeffery
Birth Name:Isadore Gilbert
Birth Date:June 21, 1840
Birth Place:Waukegan, Illinois, U.S.
Death Date:February 23, 1919
Resting Place:Graceland Cemetery
Occupation:religious and lyrical poet
Subject:Christianity

Isadore Gilbert Jeffery (Gilbert; June 21, 1840 – February 23, 1919) was an American writer of Christian poetry and hymn lyrics.[1] [2] Though she wrote prolifically for the religious press, she did not publish a book. For years, she was a constant contributor to The Advance and held a responsible position in the office of that Chicago weekly.

Biography

Isadore Gilbert was born in Waukegan, Illinois, June 21, 1840,[3] where her parents lived for a time. Her parents were Samuel H. Gilbert and Cornelia M. (Davey) Gilbert (d. 1878. For many years their home was in Chicago, Illinois, where her father had extensive business interests. She was of English parentage.

Although she wrote since childhood for a large number of papers and periodicals, Jeffery never published a book. Several of her poems were published in Woman in Sacred Song.

In 1878, she married William J. Jeffery,[4] then superintendent of the American District Telegraph and Telephone Service of Chicago. They had no children.

About two years after their marriage, he was injured and unable to work for three years. When he finally began to get about on crutches, Mrs. Jeffery accepted the position of stenographer in the office of The Advance, a popular Christian weekly,[5] which she occupied for nearly six years.

Isadore Gilbert Jeffery died in Chicago, on February 23, 1919, and was buried at that city's Graceland Cemetery.[6]

Selected works

Lyrics

Religious poems

Notes and References

  1. Book: Willard . Frances Elizabeth . Frances Willard . Livermore . Mary Ashton Rice . Mary Livermore . A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life . 1893 . . 418 . Woman of the Century/Isadore Gilbert Jeffery .
  2. Book: Smith, Evan Munson . Moulton . Charles Wells . The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review . 1890 . C.W. Moulton . 427 . 9 September 2023 . en.
  3. Web site: Isadore Jeffery . familysearch . 9 September 2023.
  4. Book: The National Corporation Reporter . 1900 . United States Corporation Bureau, Incorporated . 994 . 9 September 2023 . en.
  5. Book: Smith . Eva Munson . Woman in Sacred Song: A Library of Hymns, Religious Poems and Sacred Music by Woman ... . 1888 . Arthur E. Whitney . 9 September 2023 . en.
  6. News: Obit. Isadore G. Jeffery. February 23, 1919, Chicago. . 9 September 2023 . Chicago Tribune . 24 February 1919 . 19 . en.
  7. Web site: Isadore Gilbert . www.hymntime.com . 9 September 2023.
  8. Contributed articles . The Advance . 9 April 1903 . 45 . 1902 . 400, 454 . 9 September 2023 . Advance Company . Chicago . en.
  9. Book: Gems for the Sick . 1894 . A.W. Hall . 9 September 2023 . en.
  10. Heavenly Ministries . Smith . Alfred Emanuel . Walton . Francis . Outlook . 31 January 1889 . 39 . 5 . 135 . 9 September 2023 . Outlook publishing Company, Incorporated . en.
  11. Beecher . Henry Ward . Index . The Christian Union . 26 February 1885 . 31 . 18 . 7, 13, 31 . 9 September 2023 . J.B. Ford & Company . en.
  12. Book: The Current: Politics, Literature, Science and Art . 1887 . Current Company . 421 . 9 September 2023 . en.
  13. Banks . Louis Albert . Wings and Songs . Christian Register and Boston Observer . 5 August 1886 . LXV . 31 . 485 . 9 September 2023 . American Unitarian association . Boston . en.

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