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Thoro Harris
1874 - 1955 Composer of "[Lead now, as forth we go]" in Echoes of Paradise Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC.
Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include:
Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904)
Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illinois: Meyer & Brother, 1906)
Best Temperance Songs (Chicago, Illinois: The Glad Tidings Publishing Company, 1913) (music editor)
Hymns of Hope (Chicago, Illinois: Thoro Harris, undated, circa 1922)
--www.hymntime.com/tch
Thoro Harris
Louis C. Jacoby
1848 - 1948 Composer of "[Lead now, as forth we go]" in The New Children's Hymnal Born 1848; death date unknown (after 1919). A Founder of the American Guild of Organists. Conductor of New Jersey's Bayonne City Philharmonic Society ca. 1879-85. Organist at Grace Chapel, NYC, 1880, and at Middle Dutch Collegiate Church, NYC, from before 1889 until after 1919.
(source: AGO Founders Hymnal, p. 99)
Louis C. Jacoby
