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Beautiful Home So Bright and Fair

Author: J. H. Fillmore Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project

[Beautiful home so bright and fair]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. F. Hymnal Title: Songs of Glory No. 2 Incipit: 56712 34511 14432 Used With Text: Beautiful Home So Bright and Fair

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Beautiful Home So Bright and Fair

Author: J. H. F. Hymnal: Joy and Gladness #18 (1880) Hymnal Title: Joy and Gladness Languages: English Tune Title: [Beautiful home so bright and fair]

Beautiful Home So Bright and Fair

Author: J. H. F. Hymnal: Songs of Glory No. 2 #28 (1881) Hymnal Title: Songs of Glory No. 2 Languages: English Tune Title: [Beautiful home so bright and fair]

1849 - 1936 Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Author of "Beautiful Home So Bright and Fair" 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