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There's room enough for all

Author: Eden Reade Latta Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: O listen to the welcome sound

[Oh, listen to the welcome sound]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: C. H. Gabriel Used With Text: There's Room for All

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Author: E. R. Latta Hymnal: Garlands of Praise #65 (1876) First Line: Oh, listen to the welcome sound Refrain First Line: There's room enough for all Topics: Anniversary; Children Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh, listen to the welcome sound]

There's room enough for all

Author: Eden Reade Latta Hymnal: The Wave of Sunday School Song #d70 (1878) First Line: O listen to the welcome sound

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E. R. Latta

1839 - 1915 Author of "There's Room for All" in Garlands of Praise 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

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Person Name: C. H. Gabriel Composer of "[Oh, listen to the welcome sound]" in Garlands of Praise Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman