Mary Charlotte Ward Granniss Webster Billings, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mary Charlotte Ward Granniss Webster Billings

American writer, activist, hymn writer, evangelist, missionary

Date of Birth: 11-Jul-1824

Place of Birth: Litchfield, Connecticut, United States

Date of Death: 21-Mar-1904

Profession: writer, hymnwriter, activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Mary Charlotte Ward Granniss Webster Billings (pen names, M.C.G., Mrs.
M.C.
Granniss; July 11, 1824 – March 21, 1904) was an American writer, activist, hymn writer, evangelist and missionary.
She was Texas' first ordained woman Universalist minister.Billings, an ordained minister in the Universalist Church, did missionary work in Texas, and associated with her husband, of the same congregation, who was superintendent of its missions in the State.
Though Billings largely gave her life to clerical work, she displayed great activity in other fields.
She wrote two books, one a work of fiction, entitled Emma Clermert, and the other a holiday publication, known as The Wonderful Christmas Tree.
Both were well received and were flatteringly commended by the press.
While abroad, she wrote "Thitherside Sketches," which were serially published in Ladies' Repository, a Boston monthly, running through two years of that publication.
Billings was also a prolific writer for northern journals and periodicals, denominational and secular.
These productions were both in prose and verse, and from each, certain works were compiled in book form for literary readers.
Among these compilations may be mentioned "Poets and Poetry of Printerdom," "Women in Sacred Song," and "Our Women Workers".
Billings was a member of The Texas Woman's Press Association, and of The Woman's State Council.
Widowed three times, Billings had no children.