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Crafts, Wilbur F. (Wilbur Fisk), 1850-1922
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1850-1922
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Rev. Wilbur Fisk Crafts was born on January 12, 1850, in Fryeburg, Maine.
He was an American clergyman and author. He attended Wesleyan University, Connecticut (1869, A.M. 1871), Boston University (B.Div. 1871), and Marietta College (Ph.D. 1886). He served pastorates at Methodist Episcopal, Congregational, and Presbyterian churches, promoted Sunday School education, and was prominent in the temperance and prohibition movement. He founded the International Reform Bureau and was its superintendent for 28 years. He was the author of many essays and hymns, e.g. "My Life of Jesus" (1871), "Through the Eye to the Heart: or, Eye-Teaching in the Sunday School" (1873), "Song Victories of The Bliss and Sankey Hymns" (1877), and "Successful Men of Today and What They Say of Success" (1883).
In 1874, he married Sara Jane Timanus (1851–1930). He died on December 27, 1922, in Washington, D.C.
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