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Leaning On My Savior

Author: L. L. Pickett Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: I am leaning on my Savior Refrain First Line: I am leaning on my Savior

[I am leaning on my Saviour]

Appears in 55 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jas. H. Fillmore Incipit: 55451 23211 12176 Used With Text: Leaning On My Saviour

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Author: Rev. L. L. Pickett Hymnal: Victorious Songs #131 (1922) First Line: I am leaning on my Saviour Refrain First Line: I am leaning on my Saviour Languages: English Tune Title: [I am leaning on my Saviour]

Leaning On My Saviour

Author: Rev. L. L. Pickett Hymnal: The Epworth Hymnal No. 3 #168 (1900) First Line: I am leaning on my Saviour Refrain First Line: I am leaning on my Saviour Languages: English Tune Title: [I am leaning on my Saviour]

Leaning on my Savior

Author: Leander L. Pickett Hymnal: Favorite Gospel Songs. New ed. #d63 (1901) First Line: I am leaning on my Savior Languages: English

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Person Name: Jas. H. Fillmore Composer of "[I am leaning on my Saviour]" in The Epworth Hymnal No. 3 James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry

L. L. Pickett

1859 - 1928 Person Name: Rev. L. L. Pickett Author of "Leaning On My Saviour" in The Epworth Hymnal No. 3 Rv Leander Lycurgus Pickett USA 1859-1928. Born at Burnsville, MS, he became a Methodist evangelist. He held meetings in several states and at Holiness campgrounds. After marrying Ludie, they served pastorates in northeast TX, and Columbia, SC, before moving to Wilmore, KY. Pickett married Pruvy Melviney Dorough in 1878, and they had a son, James, in 1880. After her death in 1887, he married Ludie in 1888. He was a renowned speaker, leader, minister, author, hymnwriter, and patriot, prominent in the Holiness Movement, and helped found Asbury College (now University), at Wilmore, KY, where he also served as the financial agent of the board of trustees for many years. The Picketts boarded m,inistry students attending Asbury, among whom was missionary E Stanley Jones. In 1905 a student prayer meeting at the Pickett home spilled out to the Asbury campus in a revival that spread around the town of Wilmore. Between 1891 and 1926 Pickett published 11 song books, some with others, including John Sweney, William J Kirkpatrick, John Bryant, Martin Knapp, Elisha A Hoffman, Burke Culpepper, William Marks, Benjamin Butts, and Robert McNeill. He died at Middlesboro, KY. John Perry