Henry Lake Gilmour

Born: January 19, 1836, Londonderry, Ireland.

Died: May 20, 1920, Delair, New Jersey.

    Gilmour emigrated to America as a teenager. He started working as a painter, then served in the American civil war, where he was captured and spent several months in the Confederate Libbey Prison. After the war, he became a dentist. In 1869, he moved to Wenonah, New Jersey, and helped found the Wenonah Methodist Church in 1885. For four decades, he directed the choir at the Pitman Grove Camp Meeting, and worked at camp meetings and revivals in Mountain Lake Park, Maryland, and Ridgeview Park, Pennsylvania. His works include:

• Winning Songs (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John J. Hood, 1892) (with John Sweney and William Kirkpatrick)
• Songs of Love and Praise, No. 3 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John J. Hood, 1896) (with John Sweney and William Kirkpatrick)

Music

1. Haven of Rest
2. He Brought Me Out
3. Jesus, I'll Go Through with Thee
4. Like a Mighty Sea
5. Saved from the Wreck
6. Watchman, Blow the Gospel Trumpet
7. When Israel Out of Bondage Came