Gertrude Woodcock Seibert

Last updated • 1 min readFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Gertrude Woodcock Seibert
Gertrude Woodcock Seibert (1864-1928).png
BornGertrude Antonette Woodcock
November 16, 1864
Altoona, Pennsylvania
DiedJune 13, 1928
Miami Beach, Florida
Pen name
  • Gertrude W. Seibert
  • G. W. Seibert
Occupation
  • writer
  • compiler
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Wellesley College
Genre
  • poetry
  • religion
Spouse
Robert S. Seibert
(m. 1890)

Gertrude Woodcock Seibert (November 16, 1864 – June 13, 1928) was an American writer. Initially known for her poetry, she became a compiler of religious texts. [1]

Contents

Biography

Gertrude Antonette (or "Antoinette") Woodcock was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania on November 16, 1864. Her parents were Samuel M. Woodcock, a lawyer, and Elizabeth (Etnier) Woodcock. [2]

She graduated from Altoona High School (1880) and Wellesley College (B.S., 1885). [2]

On September 18, 1890, in Altoona, she married Robert Samuel Seibert. He later became president of East Broad Top Railroad, Rockhill Iron and Coal Company, and Shade Gap Railroad Company. [2]

Since 1894, Seibert was engaged in non-denominational Bible study and private lectures on religious topics. After joining the Bible Students, she compiled Daily Heavenly Manna for the Household of Faith in 1905, also translating it into German, Swedish, and Norwegian, and Instructor's Guideand Berean Topical Index for the Berean Bible in 1907. [2]

In the Garden of the Lord In the Garden of the Lord (1905).png
In the Garden of the Lord
Sweet Brier Rose Sweet Brier Rose, title page.png
Sweet Brier Rose

Seibert contributed to various newspapers (religious articles exclusively) and wrote religious poems and hymns. In 1909, she published the booklet Sweet Brier Rose (500,000 printed). In 1912, she compiled Poems of Dawn. She also published the booklet In the Garden of the Lord (in illustrated form). Seibert did considerable art work in the line of decorated and illustrated motto cards; a 1905 design of chestnut burrs, illustrating "In Due Time", was printed in an edition of 15,000. [2]

Seibert was also an active member of the International Bible Students Association. She was opposed to woman suffrage on Scriptural grounds. [2]

Gertrude Seibert died on June 13, 1928, at Miami Beach, Florida. [3]

Selected works

Related Research Articles

The Christadelphians are a restorationist and nontrinitarian Christian denomination. The name means 'brothers and sisters in Christ', from the Greek words for Christ (Christos) and brothers (adelphoi).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Altoona, Pennsylvania</span> City in Pennsylvania, United States

Altoona is a city in Blair County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 43,963 at the time of the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Altoona metropolitan area, which includes all of Blair County and was recorded as having a population of 122,823.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Katharine Tynan</span> Irish poet and novelist (1859-1931)

Katharine Tynan was an Irish writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry. After her marriage in 1893 to the Trinity College scholar, writer and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson (1865–1919) she usually wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson, or variations thereof. Tynan's younger sister Nora Tynan O'Mahony was also a poet and one of her three children, Pamela Hinkson (1900–1982), was also known as a writer. The Katharine Tynan Road in Belgard, Tallaght is named after her.

This is a list of the books written by G. K. Chesterton.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">James Allen (author)</span> British philosophical writer (1864–1912)

James Allen was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. His best known work, As a Man Thinketh, has been mass-produced since its publication in 1903. It has been a source of inspiration to motivational and self-help authors.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ian Maclaren</span> Scottish writer John Watson (1850–1907)

John Watson, was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He is remembered as an author of fiction, known by his pen name Ian Maclaren.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bible Student movement</span> Christian movement founded by Charles Taze Russell

The Bible Student movement is a Millennialist Restorationist Christian movement. It emerged in the United States from the teachings and ministry of Charles Taze Russell (1852–1916), also known as Pastor Russell, and his founding of the Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society in 1881. Members of the movement have variously referred to themselves as Bible Students, International Bible Students, Associated Bible Students, or Independent Bible Students.

Maginel Wright Enright Barney was an American children's book illustrator and graphic artist. She was the younger sister of Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, and the mother of Elizabeth Enright, children's book writer and illustrator.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Free Bible Students</span> Christian movement

The Free Bible Students is a branch of the Bible Student movement. The Free Bible Students form independent, autonomous assemblies and the name, "Free", is given to them to distinguish them from Bible Students, with whom they share historical roots. The group discarded many of the teachings of Bible Student founder Charles Taze Russell.

The Berean Christadelphians are a Christian denomination.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Effie Adelaide Rowlands</span> British novelist

Effie Adelaide Maria Henderson was a British novelist, better known under the pen names Effie Adelaide Rowlands, E. Maria Albanesi and Madame Albanesi. She was the author of more than 250 romance novels and short-stories for magazines and newspapers.

Charles Henry Welch (1880–1967) was a Christian dispensational theologian, writer and speaker.

F. G. Jannaway was an English Christadelphian writer on Jewish settlement in Palestine, and notable for his role in the conscientious objector tribunals of World War I. His reaction to controversy was to separate from others in the name of purity, and he was instrumental in the formation of minority factions, such as the Berean Christadelphians. However, this reasoning eventually caused him to separate even from his own brother, A.T. Jannaway.

The Shtundists are the predecessors of several Evangelical Protestant groups in Ukraine and across the former Soviet Union.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark Twain bibliography</span> About the works of Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens ,⁣ well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called the "Great American Novel," and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He also wrote poetry, short stories, essays, and non-fiction. His big break was "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (1867).

Gertrude Demain Hammond or Mrs. McMurdie was a British painter and children's book illustrator.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Katherine Eleanor Conway</span> American journalist, editor, and poet

Katherine Eleanor Conway was an American journalist, editor, and poet. A devout Catholic, she supported women's education but opposed suffrage. Hailing from the U.S. state of New York, Conway worked on various newspapers, including The Pilot, where she served as associate editor (1890-1905) and editor in chief/managing editor (1905-1908), "the first and only woman to hold that position, despite never receiving credit on the masthead". She organized the first Catholic reading circle in Boston, serving as its president, and as well as presiding officer of the New England Woman's Press Association. Conway was an active member of the Boston Authors' Club, and a reader of original essays on religious and intellectual topics before prominent literary and social clubs. In 1907, she received the Laetare Medal from the University of Notre Dame.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harriet McEwen Kimball</span> American poet

Harriet McEwen Kimball was an American poet, hymnwriter, philanthropist, and hospital co-founder. “The Poetess of the Church” as she was long called, Kimball's life was largely devoted to literature and to church work. She was one of that group of 19th—century poets of which Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was most prominent and which ministered so greatly to the American love of poetry and appreciation of it that the members of the group were in some sense literary pioneers. Kimball was the last of the group to survive. She died in 1917.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Witt, Seibert & Halsey</span> American architectural firm

Witt, Seibert & Halsey was an American architectural firm based in the twin cities of Texarkana, Arkansas and Texarkana, Texas, with a practice extending into Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. It was founded by architect Sidney Stewart, but achieved prominence under Bayard Witt and Eugene C. Seibert.

Queenie Scott-Hopper was the pen name of Mabel Olive Scott-Hopper, an English author of children’s stories, poetry, and devotional literature.

References

  1. Chryssides, George D. (15 May 2019). Historical Dictionary of Jehovah's Witnesses. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN   978-1-5381-1952-5 . Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Leonard, John W. (1914). Woman's Who's who of America (Public domain ed.). American Commonwealth Company. p. 729. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
  3. "THE DEATH ROLL. GERTRUDE W. SEIBERT". Altoona Tribune. 19 June 1928. p. 14. Retrieved 13 April 2022 via Newspapers.com.