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Is There No Room for Jesus

Author: Eden Reeder Latta Appears in 2 hymnals Refrain First Line: Now in my heart there's room

[Is there no room for Jesus]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 55112 32161 16555 Used With Text: Is There No Room for Jesus?

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Author: E. R. Latta Hymnal: Gathered Jewels No. 2 #58 (1889) First Line: Is there no room for Jesus Refrain First Line: Now in my heart there's room Languages: English Tune Title: [Is there no room for Jesus]

Is There No Room for Jesus

Author: E. R. Latta Hymnal: Songs of Rejoicing #120 (1888) Refrain First Line: Now in my heart there's room Languages: English Tune Title: [Is there no room for Jesus]

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E. R. Latta

1839 - 1915 Person Name: Eden Reeder Latta Author of "Is There No Room for Jesus" Rv Eden Reeder Latta USA 1839-1915. Born at Haw Patch, IN, the son of a Methodist minister, (also a boyhood friend of hymn writer Willam A Ogden) he became a school teacher. During the American Civil War he preached for the Manchester Methodist Church and other congregations (possibly as a circuit rider filling empty pulpits). In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Wright, and they had five children: Arthur, Robert, Jennie, two others. He taught for the public schools of Manchester, and later Colesburg, IA. He moved to Guttenberg, IA, in the 1890s, and continued writing song lyrics for several major gospel composers, including William Ogden, James McGranahan, James Fillmore, and Edmund Lorenz. He wrote 1600+ songs and hymns, many being widely popular in his day. His older brother, William, composed hymn tunes. He died at Guttenbert, IA. John Perry

J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[Is there no room for Jesus]" in Gathered Jewels No. 2 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