William H. Doane
(February – December )
Dr. William H. Doane was born in Preston, CT, the fifth of eight children of Joseph and Frances Doane. His father was the head of Doane and Treat, cotton manufacturers. He attended public schools and Woodstock Academy, a private secondary school affiliated with the Congregational Church in Woodstock, CT. His musical talents were obvious, and he was selected as the school’s choir director. Very early he was playing the flute, violin, double bass fiddle, and cabinet organ and at sixteen, he composed his first piece of music. William was saved as a teenager in and later baptized by Rev. Frederic Denison, uniting with the Central Baptist Church in Norwich, CT. On November 2, , Doane married Mary Frances Treat, the daughter of his father’s business partner in the cotton manufacturing business.
He worked in his father’s business three years and in he took a position with the firm of J. A. Fay & Co., manufacturers of woodworking machinery, in Norwich, CT. In he became the Managing Partner with headquarters in Cincinnati. A short time later he was made President. It was one of the most extensive businesses in its line wit
Cotton manufacturer, president of a wood-working company, businessman, inventor, composer, and songbook editor? Though it may seem hard to believe, these terms all describe one man: William Howard Doane. Many of the writers that we have looked at have their stories beginning in England, but this man's story takes place in the United States of America.
In Preston, Connecticut, , William H. Doane was born to Joseph and Frances Doane. William Doane, one of nine children, was quite a musically gifted child. He already sang frequently when he was only six years old and started singing in his church choir when he was ten. By the time he was fifteen, he was proficient at the flute, double bass viol, and cabinet organ and had begun composing his own music.
It was at this time in that Doane also began working for his father at Doane & Treat, a cotton manufacturer. After three years, he moved on to a higher position in J.A. Fay & Co (where he would eventually become president), which manufactured machinery for woodworking. In , he married Frances Treat, whose father had partnered with his own in Doane & Treat.
Though a busy man, Doane still found time to compose musi
Namesake: William Howard Doane
Songbook featuring works by W.H. Doane.
Music Man
While Doane’s riches came from manufacturing, his true passion was music. In Sunnyside, Doane had a music room filled with manuscripts from famous composers and instruments he could play, many of them exotic sights from overseas, which are now a part of the Cincinnati Museum of Art’s collection. But Doane’s real musical passion was composing hymns. Doane composed thousands of hymns, and at least 1, were with the blind hymn writer Miss Fanny Crosby, which were sung around the globe. None of the money Doane made from his music was kept – it all went back to the church or other charitable endeavors. Doane wrote a multitude of hits such as Tell Me the Old, Old Story; Stand Up for Jesus; Closer, Dear Lord to Thee; and Safe in the Arms of Jesus which Doane composed on a train ride to Cincinnati and Miss Crosby wrote the words for in thirty minutes after hearing the music for the first time. Doane’s music was sung at missions across Asia, in churches throughout America, and on battlefields across the globe. It is said that in t
William H. Doane:
by Henry S. Burrage
Dr. William Howard Doane, musical composer, was born in Preston, New London County, Connecticut, [United States], February 3, He received his education in the public schools of that place, and subsequently he attended the Academy at Woodstock, where he was graduated in
His father was an extensive cotton manufacturer, and at an early age William was placed in an important position in his counting-room. About three years later he accepted a still higher and more responsible position in the counting-room of James S. Treat, an extensive manufacturer of cotton goods in Voluntown.
After remaining there three years he was called to Norwich to take charge of the books and finances of J. A. Fay & Co., at that time extensive manufacturers of wood-working machinery. He remained with them about five years and then was transferred by the company to Chicago, Illinois, and placed in charge of their western business as general agent. In , he became a partner in the business, and having removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, he became president of the company, and has since had the complete control and management of the business. The sole manufacturing esta
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