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[High o'er the hills of Zion]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 51353 23234 21235 Used With Text: Jerusalem, the Golden

Jerusalem, the Golden

Author: Mrs. A. L. Dold Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: High o'er the hills of Zion Used With Tune: [High o'er the hills of Zion]

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Jerusalem, the Golden

Author: Mrs. A. L. Dold Hymnal: Children of Zion #38 (1891) First Line: High o'er the hills of Zion Languages: English Tune Title: [High o'er the hills of Zion]

Author: Mrs. A. L. D. Hymnal: Grateful Praise #15 (1884) First Line: High o'er the hills of duty Refrain First Line: "Jerusalem, the golden" Languages: English Tune Title: [High o'er the hills of duty]

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[High o'er the hills of Zion]" in Children of Zion 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

Mrs. A. L. Davison

1851 - 1887 Person Name: Mrs. A. L. Dold Author of "Jerusalem, the Golden" in Children of Zion Fannie Estelle Davison Born: 1851, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Died: March 10, 1887, Chicago, Illinois. Buried: Carthage, Missouri. Fannie’s father was killed when she was 10 years old; after her mother’s remarriage to hotelier Henry Warner, the family moved to Carthage, Missouri. Fannie married court reporter Asa Lee Davison and they moved to Chicago, Illinois, then Madison, Wisconsin. Several of her songs appeared in publications from the Fillmore Brothers of Cincinnati, Ohio, including Songs of Gratitude (1877), Joy and Gladness (1880) and The Voice of Joy (1882). Lyrics-- Last Words, The Purer in Heart, O God © The Cyber Hymnal™ (hymntime.com/tch)