Henry Lake Gilmour

1836-1920

Born: January 19, 1836, Londonderry, Ireland.

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

Gilmour emigrated to America as a teenager. He stared 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 dentist. In 1869, he moved to Wenonah, New Jersey, and helped found the Wenonah Methodist Church in 1885. For some 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.

Music:

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