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I'll do my duty

Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Though the clouds are lowering round me Refrain First Line: By his help I'll do my duty

[Though the clouds are low'ring round me]

Appears in 1 hymnal Used With Text: I'll do my Duty

I'LL DO MY DUTY

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 55111 76715 11232 Used With Text: By His help I'll do my duty

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I'll do my Duty

Hymnal: Songs of Gladness for the Sabbath School #37 (1869) First Line: Tho' the clouds are low'ring round me Tune Title: [Though the clouds are low'ring round me]

I'll do my duty

Hymnal: The New Song #109 (1875) First Line: Though the clouds are lowering round me Refrain First Line: By his help I'll do my duty

By His help I'll do my duty

Author: Unknown Hymnal: The Praise Hymnal #537 (1896) First Line: Tho' the clouds are low'ring round me Languages: English Tune Title: I'LL DO MY DUTY

Person Name: Unknown Author of "By His help I'll do my duty" in The Praise Hymnal In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "I'LL DO MY DUTY" in The Praise Hymnal 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