Born: May 27, 1799, Tren­ton, New Jer­sey. Doane was named af­ter Amer­i­can Pres­i­dent George Wash­ing­ton, be­cause he was born the year Wash­ing­ton died.

Died: Ap­ril, 1859, Bur­ling­ton, New Jer­sey.

Buried: St. Ma­ry’s Epis­co­pal Church, Bur­ling­ton, New Jer­sey.

After grad­u­at­ing from Un­ion Coll­ege, Doane took a po­si­tion as as­sist­ant at Trin­i­ty Church in New York. He went on to be­come pro­fess­or of rhe­tor­ic and belles-lettres at Trin­ity Coll­ege, Hartford, Con­nec­ti­cut; rec­tor at Trin­i­ty Church, Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts (hymn­ist Phillips Brooks pas­tored there lat­er); and Epis­co­pal bi­shop of New Jer­sey (1832). Doane al­so helped found Bur­ling­ton Coll­ege and St. Mary’s Hall Doane Aca­de­my in Bur­ling­ton, New Jer­sey. His works in­clude:

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Lyrics

  1. Fling Out the Banner
  2. Once More, O Lord, Thy Sign
  3. Softly Now the Light of Day
  4. Thou Art the Way