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Display Title: Leaning on His Mighty Arm First Line: I am safely walking in life's upward way Tune Title: [I am safely walking in life's upward way] Author: Thoro Harris Date: 1937
Songs of Redemption #4
Leaning on His Mighty Arm
I am safely walking in life's upward way
Author: Thoro HarrisTune: [I am safely walking in life's upward way]
Published in 1 hymnal
Author: Thoro Harris
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, Illi… Go to person page >Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
