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Gem Fitch

b. 1934 Person Name: Gem Fitch (1934- ) Scripture: Genesis 2:1-3 Author of "Santo sábado, bendito" in Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día

1911 - 1984 Person Name: William Fitch, 1911-1982 Scripture: Genesis 17:9 Author of "O King Eternal, Sovereign Lord" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) Fitch, William. (Falkirk, Scotland, July 10, 1911-March 23, 1984, Toronto, Canada [Glasgow Herald]). Presbyterian. University of Glasgow, M.A., 1932; B.D., 1935; Ph.D., 1943. Pastorates at Newmilnes, 1936-1943; Glasgow, 1943-1955; Toronto, Ontario, 1955-1972. From 1972, director of the Church Renewal Foundation, and evangelist-at-large, for the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Author of some twenty books of Biblical exposition on great themes. He was chairman of the committee which prepared the Book of Praise (1972), to which he contributed one hymn. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives

Fred A. Fillmore

1856 - 1925 Scripture: Job 19:25 Author of "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" in Great Songs of the Church (Revised) Born: May 15, 1856, Paris, Illinois. Died: November 15, 1925, Terrace Park, Ohio. Buried: Milford, Ohio. Frederick Augustus Fillmore, who was born on May 15, 1856, in Paris, IL, one of seven children, five sons and two daughters, born to Augustus Damon and Hannah Lockwood Fillmore. His father was a preacher in the Christian Church, as well as a composer, songbook compiler, and hymn publisher who developed his own system of musical notation using numbers on the staff in place of note heads. Augustus eventually settled in Cincinnati, OH, and established a music publishing business there. Until 1906, there was no official distinction between "Christian Churches" and "Churches of Christ." The names were used pretty much interchangeably, and many older churches of Christ which are faithful today were once known as "Christian Churches." Fred and his older brother James took over their father's publishing business following the death of Augustus in 1870 and established the Fillmore Brothers Music House. This became a successful Cincinnati music form, publishing church hymnals and later band and orchestral music. For many years the firm issued a monthly periodical, The Music Messenger. The brothers edited many hymnbooks and produced many songs which became popular. Beginning with the songbook Songs of Glory in 1874, there appeared many Fillmore publications which became widely used through churches, especially in the midwest. For these collections, Fred provided a great deal of hymn tunes. --launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/hymnoftheday

David Finstrom

Person Name: D. E. Finstrom Scripture: Psalm 23 Author of "Mi Pastor" in Himnos de Gloria

Ben Fielding

Scripture: Psalm 24:8 Author of "Mighty to Save" in Lift Up Your Hearts

G. W. Fields

Scripture: Psalm 33:1-3 Composer of "[Our Shepherd is the Savior true]" in Pearls of Praise

James Fitch

Scripture: Psalm 40:2-3 Author of "He Took Me Out of the Pit" in Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) Early 20th Century

Birdie Lee Fitzgerald

Scripture: Psalm 46:1 Author of "A Refuge for Thee" in Dortch's Gospel Voices

W. G. Fischer

1835 - 1912 Person Name: William G. Fischer Scripture: Psalm 51:7 Composer of "FISCHER" in Baptist Hymnal 1991 William Gustavus Fischer In his youth, William G. Fischer (b. Baltimore, MD, 1835; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1912) developed an interest in music while attending singing schools. His career included working in the book bindery of J. B. Lippencott Publishing Company, teaching music at Girard College, and co-owning a piano business and music store–all in Philadelphia. Fischer eventually became a popular director of music at revival meetings and choral festivals. In 1876 he conducted a thousand-voice choir at the Dwight L. Moody/Ira D. Sankey revival meeting in Philadelphia. Fischer composed some two hundred tunes for Sunday school hymns and gospel songs. Bert Polman

J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Person Name: James H. Fillmore, 1849-1936 Scripture: Psalm 89:1-8 Versifier (st. 1) of "I Will Sing of the Mercies of the LORD" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) 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