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Lord, We Thank Thee

Author: Eleanor Allen Schroll Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: We would sing a Savior's grateful praise Refrain First Line: Blessing sent us daily from above

[We would sing a Savior's grateful praise]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 56517 67216 15143 Used With Text: Lord, We Thank Thee

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Author: Eleanor Allen Schroll Hymnal: Primary School Carols #28 (1914) First Line: We would sing a Savior's grateful praise Refrain First Line: Blessing sent us daily from above Languages: English Tune Title: [We would sing a Savior's grateful praise]

Lord, we thank thee

Author: Eleanor Allen Schroll Hymnal: School Carols #d328 (1914) First Line: We would sing a Savior's grateful praise Refrain First Line: Blessing sent us daily from above Languages: English

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[We would sing a Savior's grateful praise]" in Primary School Carols 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

Eleanor Allen Schroll

1878 - 1966 Author of "Lord, We Thank Thee" Born: 1878, Newport, Kentucky. Died: January 8, 1966, Daytona Beach, Florida. Buried: Southgate, Kentucky. Lyrics-- Beautiful Garden of Prayer, The He Lives --www.hymntime.com/bio