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Singing with the heart

Author: Eden Reade Latta Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: When with happy faces

[When with happy faces]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 33333 43222 22444 Used With Text: Singing With the Heart

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Singing With the Heart

Author: E. R. Latta Hymnal: Heart Songs #4 (1893) First Line: When with happy faces Languages: English Tune Title: [When with happy faces]

Singing With the Heart

Author: E. R. Latta Hymnal: Grateful Praise #4 (1884) First Line: When with happy faces Languages: English Tune Title: [When with happy faces]

Singing with the heart

Author: Eden Reade Latta Hymnal: Praise and Rejoicing #d120 (1884) First Line: When with happy faces

1839 - 1915 Author of "Singing With the Heart" in Heart Songs 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 "[When with happy faces]" in Heart Songs 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