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We'll vote for prohibition

Author: Charles M. Fillmore Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: We're in a fight we know is right

[We're in a fight]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Used With Text: We'll Vote for Prohibition

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We'll vote for prohibition

Author: Charles M. Fillmore Hymnal: Pro-Songs #d21 (1911) First Line: We're in a fight we know is right

We'll vote for prohibition

Author: Charles M. Fillmore Hymnal: Cornelius' Prohibition Songs #d30 (1911) First Line: We're in a fight we know is right Languages: English

We'll vote for prohibition

Author: Charles M. Fillmore Hymnal: Revival and Prohibition Songs #d111 (1903) First Line: We're in a fight we know is right

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[We're in a fight]" in Quartets and Choruses for Men 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

Charles M. Fillmore

1860 - 1952 Person Name: C. M. Fillmore Author of "We'll Vote for Prohibition" in Quartets and Choruses for Men Charles Millard Fillmore, 1860-1952 Born: July 15, 1860, Paris, Illinois. Died: September 17, 1952, Indianapolis, Indiana. Fillmore won a music scholarship at the Cincinnati College of Music, then taught for a year at Bath Seminary in Owingsville, Kentucky. He then traveled for about a year and taught singing classes in various parts of America. He then went for additional music studies in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied for the ministry at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, graduating in 1890. He pastored in Lafayette, Indiana; Shelbyville, Indiana; was "State Evangelist" (for one year) in Ogden, Utah; Peru, Indiana; Carthage, Ohio; and Hillside Church, Indianapolis, Indiana. He was one of the editors of the temperance paper Clean Politics, and of The Musical Messenger. He wrote several hundred Gospel songs in his lifetime. --www.hymntime.com/tch