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[Ripe is the grain for the reapers]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: L. M. Gordon Incipit: 56712 35611 76745 Used With Text: Ripe Is the Grain
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Ripe Is the Grain

Author: E. R. Latta Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Ripe is the grain for the reapers Used With Tune: [Ripe is the grain for the reapers]
Ripe Is the Grain

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Ripe Is the Grain

Author: E. R. Latta Hymnal: Glory Bells #133 (1896) First Line: Ripe is the grain for the reapers Languages: English Tune Title: [Ripe is the grain for the reapers]
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E. R. Latta

1839 - 1915 Author of "Ripe Is the Grain" in Glory Bells 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
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L. M. Gordon

Composer of "[Ripe is the grain for the reapers]" in Glory Bells
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