Sarah Elizabeth Miles

MILES, Sarah Elizabeth (née Appleton). b. Boston, Massachusetts, 28 March 1807; d. Brattleboro, Vermont, 23 January 1877. She married (1833) Solomon P. Miles, then Headmaster of Boston High School, and later of a girls’ private school. He died in 1842, after which she went to live with her son at Brattleboro, Vermont. Her hymns, written when she was a young woman, were published in the Unitarian Book of Hymns (Boston, 1846), and in Alfred P. Putnam’s Singers and Songs of the Liberal Faith (Boston, 1875). In JJ four hymns are briefly annotated (p. 735): ‘The earth all light and loveliness’ ‘When on devotion’s seraph wing’ ‘Thou who didst stoop below’ ‘Father, direct my ways’ Three more are...