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{{Infobox person
| name = Jennie Bain Wilson
| image = JennieBainWilson1907.jpg
| alt = A white woman with dark hair, wearing black, seated in a wheelchair with a high back. Her hands are clasped in her lap. The photograph is in an oval frame decorated with holly leaves and berries.
| caption = A 1907 Christmas card featuring hymn writer Jennie Bain Wilson.
| birth_name = Mary Jane Bain Wilson
| birth_date = November 13, 1856
| birth_place = Cleveland, Indiana
| death_date = September 3, 1913
| death_place = South Whitley, Indiana
| nationality = American
| other_names = Jennie Wilson
| occupation = hymn writer, poet, church worker
| years_active = 1880s-1913
| known_for =
| notable_works =
}}

'''Mary Jane "Jennie" Bain Wilson''' (November 13, 1856 – September 3, 1913) was an American hymn writer.

== Early life ==
Mary Jane "Jennie" Bain Wilson was born on a farm in [[Cleveland, Indiana]] in 1856,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37125118/jennie_bain_wilson_1913/|title=South Whitley Poetess Dead|date=September 4, 1913|work=Fort Wayne Daily News|access-date=October 13, 2019|page=2|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> the younger daughter of Robert Wilson and Mary Frances Russell Wilson.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/w/i/l/s/wilson_j.htm|title=Jennie Bain Wilson|last=Adams|first=Richard W.|website=Hymntime|access-date=2019-10-13}}</ref> She survived [[typhoid fever]] as a little girl, but her spine was damaged by the bacterial infection ("typhoid spine" was first described in the medical literature many years later).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Benedek|first=T. G.|date=2011-04-19|title=The conflict of Osler's concept of "typhoid spine"|journal=Canadian Medical Association Journal|language=en|volume=183|issue=7|pages=773–775|doi=10.1503/cmaj.101891|issn=0820-3946|pmc=3080522|pmid=21502363}}</ref> She used a [[wheelchair]] from childhood<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37125223/jennie_bain_wilson_1913/|title=Indiana Poetess Dead at South Whitley Home|date=September 4, 1913|work=The Huntington Herald|access-date=October 13, 2019|page=8|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and she was educated at home.<ref name=":3">[https://hymnstudiesblog.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/hold-to-gods-unchanging-hand/ "Hold to God's Unchanging Hand"] ''Hymnstudiesblog'' (May 21, 2014).</ref>

== Career ==
Wilson wrote thousands and published hundreds of Christian hymns;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wordwisehymns.com/2018/05/21/happy-in-the-love-of-jesus/|title=Happy in the Love of Jesus|last=Cottrill|first=Robert|date=2018-05-21|website=Wordwise Hymns|language=en|access-date=2019-10-13}}</ref> she was known as the "[[Fanny Crosby]] of the West".<ref name=":1" /> She also wrote poetry and spoke at Bible conferences in Indiana.<ref name=":3" /> Her hymn "Hold to God's Unchanging Hand" (1905)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PpE4DwAAQBAJ&q=Indiana+poet+%22Jennie+Wilson%22&pg=PA31|title=Old Time Gospel Songbook|last=Erbsen|first=Wayne|date=2017-10-05|publisher=Mel Bay Publications|isbn=9781610650328|pages=31|language=en}}</ref> was especially popular in the 1910s and 1920s.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AfZYAgAAQBAJ&q=Jennie+Bain+Wilson&pg=PT146|title=Sisters In Song; Women Hymn Writers|last=Clay|first=Leslie|date=2013-12-16|publisher=Compass Flower Press|isbn=9781936688760|language=en}}</ref>

Wilson was also the author of the slogan of [[Fort Wayne, Indiana]], "Fort Wayne with Might and Main", taking the $50 prize in the city's slogan contest, out of 25,000 submissions.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37139309/jennie_bain_wilson_1909/|title=Fort Wayne with Might and Main|date=June 2, 1909|work=The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette|access-date=October 13, 2019|page=1|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37140144/jennie_bain_wilson_1909/|title=Woman Who Suggested Slogan|date=June 3, 1909|work=Fort Wayne Weekly Journal-Gazette|access-date=October 13, 2019|page=1|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=September 15, 1909|title=Fort Wayne with Might and Main|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4isXhRmf1nIC&q=Indiana+hymn+writer+Wilson&pg=PA402|journal=Medical Art and Indianapolis Medical Journal|volume=12|pages=402}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
After 1902 Wilson lived with her married older sister. She sought some surgical treatment of her paralysis in Indianapolis, and "improved somewhat".<ref name=":4" /> Wilson died in 1913, aged 57 years, from kidney disease, in [[South Whitley, Indiana]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />

== References ==
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== External links ==

* {{Find a Grave|73580141}}
* [https://hymnary.org/person/Wilson_Jennie Jennie Bain Wilson] at [[Hymnary.org|Hymnary]]

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[[Category:1856 births]]
[[Category:1913 deaths]]
[[Category:Hymnwriters]]
[[Category:People from South Whitley, Indiana]]
[[Category:American women writers]]
[[Category:American writers with disabilities]]

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