William Howard Doane was a manufacturer, inventor, hymn writer, choral director, church leader and philanthropist. He composed over 2,000 church hymns. More than seventy patents are credited to him for innovations in woodworking machinery. His philanthropy led to the renaming of the Granville Academy, as the Doane Academy, a boys' and girls' private preparatory school associated with Denison University in Granville, Ohio, where he was a major benefactor.
Marble bust of William Howard Doane at the Cincinnati Art Museum
Sunny Side, Doane residence
Doane Dance Building (1905), originally a gymnasium, then home to the Art Department, since 1975 home to the Dance Department
William Howard Doane Library (1937), gift of Doane's daughters in their father's memory
Granville is a village in Licking County, Ohio, United States. The population was 5,946 at the 2020 census. The village is located in a rural area of rolling hills, known locally as the Welsh Hills, in central Ohio. It is 35 miles (56 km) east of Columbus, the state capital, and 7 miles (11 km) west of Newark, the county seat.
Granville streetscape
Swasey Chapel at Denison University
St. Edward the Confessor Church with Christmas decoration
