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[Unto thee I fly, O Saviour!]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. F. Incipit: 12333 45555 61765 Used With Text: Unto Thee I Fly

Unto Thee, Thou blessed Refuge

Author: Palmer Hartsough Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: When the winds and floods uprising Used With Tune: [When the winds and floods uprising]

Author: Mrs. Harriet E. Jones Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Unto thee I fly, O Saviour! Refrain First Line: Let me find in thee a refuge Used With Tune: [Unto thee I fly, O Saviour!]

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Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Unto Thee, Thou blessed Refuge

Author: Palmer Hartsough Hymnal: The Praise Hymnal #174 (1896) First Line: When the winds and floods uprising Languages: English Tune Title: [When the winds and floods uprising]

Unto Thee I Fly

Author: Mrs. Harriet E. Jones Hymnal: Songs of Rejoicing #133 (1888) First Line: Unto thee I fly, O Saviour! Refrain First Line: Let me find in thee a refuge Languages: English Tune Title: [Unto thee I fly, O Saviour!]

People

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[When the winds and floods uprising]" 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

Harriet E. Jones

1823 - 1915 Person Name: Mrs. Harriet E. Jones Author of "Unto Thee I Fly" in Songs of Rejoicing Harriet E. Rice Jones, 1823-1915 Born: April 18, 1823, Pompey Hollow, Onondaga County, New York. Died: 1915, Binghamton, New York. Buried: Oran Community Church Cemetery, Pompey, Onondaga County, New York. Daughter of Eleazer Rice, Jones lived in Onondaga County, New York. Her girlhood was spent on a farm, receiving what education the country schools and one term at high school could provide. She was always fond of reading, and was a great singer, with a clear ringing voice. On July 7, 1844, she married a son of Rev. Zenas Jones; her husband died in 1879. Her song writing career began when her poetry came to the attention of Dr. M. J. Munger, who asked if she could write some Sunday school hymns for him. She went on to write for Daniel Towner, J. C. Ewing, the Fillmore brothers, and others. --hymntime.com/tch

Palmer Hartsough

1844 - 1932 Author of "Unto Thee, Thou blessed Refuge" in The Praise Hymnal Rv Palmer Hartsough USA 1844-1932. Born in Redford, MI, he attended Kalamazoo College and Michigan State Normal school (later MSU). He became an author, editor, lyricist, and librettist. After working as a traveling singing teacher in MI, IL, IA, OH, KY and TN, he opened a music studio in Rock Island, IL, around 1877, also directing music at a Baptist church there. In 1893, due to his poetic abilities, he moved to Cincinnati, OH, and joined the Fillmore Music Company, providing texts (over 1000) for their music. He also served as music director at the Bethel Mission and the 9th Street Baptist Church. He became a traveling song evangelist in 1903, and was ordained a Baptist minister in 1906, serving in Ontario, Canada, and MI from 1914 to 1927. He then returned to Plymouth, MI, where he lived the rest of his life. He never married, but was close to his two sisters, and wrote them a weekly letter for many years. With Fillmore Company he helped publish 20 songbooks. He died in Plymouth, MI. John Perry