Myra Brooks Welch was a poet that is known for her Christian poem The Touch of the Master's Hand, which was also adapted into a film....
Myra Brooks Welch
American poet
Myra Brooks Welch (October 12, 1877 – August 11, 1959 Los Angeles, California) was a poet that is known for her Christian poem The Touch of the Master's Hand, which was also adapted into a film.[1]
Personal life
Myra Brooks was born on October 12, 1877, in Farmington Township, Fulton County, Illinois to Mary (née Eshelman) and John W.
Brooks.[2][3] She was the youngest of four other siblings: Charles, David, Frank and Dessie.[3] By 1900, she and her parents had relocated to Independence, Oregon, where she was working as a sales clerk in a store.[4] Around 1901, she married Otis Melvin Welch, who was a clerk in a dry goods store and had two children, Otis and Doris.[5] By 1920, her parents had moved with her and her family and they were all living in La Verne, California.[6]
Welch's most noted poem, The Touch of the Master's Hand was written in 1921 and published on Fe