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Hold up your hand for Jesus wherever you may be

Author: Eden Reeder Latta Appears in 3 hymnals
Hold up your hand for Jesus wherever you may be

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Hold up your hand for Jesus wherever you may be

Author: Eden Reade Latta Hymnal: Choice Songs [No. 1] #d14 (1894)
Hold up your hand for Jesus wherever you may be

Hold up your hand for Jesus wherever you may be

Author: Eden Reade Latta Hymnal: The Revival Harp No. 2 #d27 (1899)
Hold up your hand for Jesus wherever you may be

Hold up your hand for Jesus wherever you may be

Author: Eden Reade Latta Hymnal: Bells of Heaven #d125 (1895) Languages: English
Hold up your hand for Jesus wherever you may be

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E. R. Latta

1839 - 1915 Person Name: Eden Reeder Latta Author of "Hold up your hand for Jesus wherever you may be" 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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