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 Con­fed­er­a­cy’s 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:

• The Sil­ver Trum­pet, with Kel­so Car­ter (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: John J. Hood, 1889)
• Sunlit Songs, with John Swe­ney & Hen­ry Gil­mour (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: John J. Hood, 1890)
• Radiant Songs, with John Swe­ney & Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: John J. Hood, 1891)
• Winning Songs, with John Swe­ney & Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: John J. Hood, 1892)
• Praise in Song, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: John J. Hood, 1893)
• Songs of Love and Praise, No. 2, with John Swe­ney & Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: John J. Hood, 1895)
• Songs of Love and Praise, No. 3, with John Swe­ney & Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: John J. Hood, 1896)
• Songs of Love and Praise, No. 4, with John Swe­ney & How­ard Ent­wisle (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: John J. Hood, 1897)
• Gospel Prais­es, No. 2, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Hall-Mack Com­pa­ny, 1900)
• Hymns of Grace & Glo­ry, with Jo­shua Gill & Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick (Cleve­land, Ohio: Evan­gel­i­cal Pub­lish­ing House, 1901)
• Songs of the Liv­ing Way, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick & E. L. Hyde (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Pep­per Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1901)
• Grateful Praise, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Hall-Mack Com­pa­ny, 1902)
• Songs of Chris­tian Ser­vice, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Hall-Mack Com­pa­ny, 1903)
• The Trib­ute of Song, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick et al. (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: Hall-Mack Com­pa­ny, 1904)
• The King’s Prais­es, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick et al. (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: The Praise Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1907)
• The Gos­pel in Song, with Mil­ton S. Rees & Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: The Praise Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1908)
• The Old Sto­ry in Song Num­ber Two, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick et al. (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: The Praise Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1908)
• Songs of Praise and Pow­er, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick et al. (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: The Chris­tian Wit­ness Com­pa­ny, 1909)
• The King’s Prais­es Num­ber 2, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick et al. (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: The Praise Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1910)
• The King’s Prais­es Num­ber Three, with Will­iam Kirk­pat­rick et al. (Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia: The Praise Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1912)

• Reynolds, p. 300
• Schwanz, pp. 38-41

1. Haven of Rest
2. Lost in Sight of Home
3. Shipwrecked, but Not Lost!
4. Thy Fa­ther Calls, Come Home

1. Angels Have Charge over Thee, The
2. Beyond the Blue
3. Bring Ye All the Tithes
4. Come to Him Now
5. Easter Dawn, The
6. He Brought Me Out
7. I Do Not Ask to Choose My Path
8. I Want to Have Stars in My Crown
9. Jesus, I’ll Go Through with Thee
10. Kissimmee
11. Like a Mighty Sea
12. Over the Dead-Line
13. Saved from the Wreck
14. Thine In­her­i­tance
15. Thurland Cas­tle
16. Uluru
17. Watchman, Blow the Gos­pel Trum­pet
18. When Is­ra­el Out of Bond­age Came
19. Where Are Thy Sins?