Fanny Crosby, possibly blinded as an infant by mustard plasters
It has been used by missionaries and teachers such as Jennie Faulding Taylor, Amy Carmichael, Fanny Crosby (who was blind), and modern day Child Evangelism Fellowship which added a fifth color: green (after white, before gold) – representing one's need to grow in Christ after salvation.
Bing Crosby | David Crosby | Crosby | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | Fanny Brice | Crosby (UK Parliament constituency) | Sidney Crosby | Kathryn Crosby | Harry Crosby | Fanny Kemble | Fanny Crosby | Caresse Crosby | How the West Was Won (Bing Crosby album) | Great Crosby | Fanny Howe | Fanny Hill | Fanny Elssler | Denise Crosby | Crosby, Merseyside | Crosby, Isle of Man | William Crosby Dawson | Jon Crosby | Fanny Cerrito | Crosby Township, Hamilton County, Ohio | Crosby Township | Crosby Hall, London | Sondra Crosby | Simon Crosby | Percy Crosby | Fanny Price |
Popular hymn writers of the day would visit each summer: Ira D. Sankey, William H. Doane, William J. Kirkpatrick, John R. Sweeney, Eliza E. Hewitt, Fanny Crosby, and others.
He worked for a while as a church organist in Boston, and from 1845 taught music at the New York Institute for the Blind, where he met Fanny Crosby, with whom he would compose fifty to sixty popular secular songs.
His father was a past president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and his mother was a hymn writer, credited with over 500 hymns, most notably "Blessed Assurance" with Fanny Crosby.