[Phebe Ann]. American authoress, born on the island of Nantucket, on the 6th of May 1829; was educated in the public schools and under Rev. Ethan Allen, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church there; married Joseph H. Hanaford in 1849, and was ordained as a minister of the Universalist Church in Hingham, MA, in 1868, and afterward was called to New Haven, CT, in 1870. Besides being several times chaplain of the Connecticut legislature, she has been grand worthy chaplain of the Good Templars, and represented the grand lodge at Detroit in 1867. She has conducted several lecture tours, has published many poems and made various contributions to literature. Among other works she has published Lucretia, the Quakeress; The Best of Books and Its History; Abraham Lincoln; The Soldier’s Daughter; The Captive Boy of Terra del Fuego; From Shore to Shore, and Other Poems; Charles Dickens; Women of the Century; etc.
