Introduction

Biography

Elsie was the daugh­ter of Sil­as Co­ry­don French and Mi­ner­va Min­er Waugh.

The Mu­sic News, Vol­ume 11, num­ber 12 (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: May 30, 1913), page 7, stat­ed French and Hen­ry W. Fair­bank had col­la­bo­rat­ed on the song Hum­ming­bird, which was to be per­formed at the Chi­ca­go Sun­day School As­so­cia­tion’s an­nu­al con­cert.

The ar­ticle men­tioned The Sol­dier Lov­er and Peace to the World as oth­er com­po­si­tions by these co-work­ers.

Copyright re­cords show El­sie in Ber­lin Heights, Ohio, in 1925.

Works

• Keep-Sakes, a pri­vat­ely pub­lished pamph­let, 1925
• May Fes­tiv­al and Oth­er Po­ems (Ber­lin Heights, Ohio: Press of the Ber­lin Call, 1925)
• Genealogy of the Dan Waugh Fa­mi­ly (Ber­lin Heights, Ohio: 1939)
• Evensongs from Blos­som­ing Sanc­tu­ar­ies (New York: House of Field, 1941)