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Thoro Harris
1874 - 1955 Composer of "[Raise the song of triumph]" in Williston Hymns 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, Illinois: Meyer & Brother, 1906)
Best Temperance Songs (Chicago, Illinois: The Glad Tidings Publishing Company, 1913) (music editor)
Hymns of Hope (Chicago, Illinois: Thoro Harris, undated, circa 1922)
--www.hymntime.com/tch
Thoro Harris
Thomas Crawford
b. 1850 Person Name: Thos. Crawford Author of "The Song of Triumph" in Williston Hymns Crawford, Thomas, was born in 1850 at Falkirk, Scotland, and now (1906) resides at Stroud Green, London. His hymn:—
Raise the song of triumph, swell the strains of joy [Service for Christ], gained a first prize for words and music (both original) in a S. S. Union competition, 1883. Both are in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905, and the words in Voice of Praise, 1887, School Hymns, 1891, and others. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Thomas Crawford
