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.

Sources

Hymns

1. My Savior
2. Tell Mother I’ll Be There