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Born: December 31, 1823, Hingham Center, Massachusetts.
Died: October 19, 1902, Lisbon Center, New York.
Buried: Jones Cemetery (near Searsburg), New York.

Cushing’s parents were Unitarians, and his early training was along these lines. After entering the ministry, his first pastorate was at Searsburg, New York. He married in 1854, and went on to serve in Auburn, Brooklyn, Buffalo, and Sparta, New York. After his wife died in 1870 and his health declined, he retired from the ministry and began writing hymns. He completed over 300 in his lifetime.

Cushing was an exemplary Christian, ever mindful of the suffering of others. Once he gave $1,000—all he had, an enormous sum in those days—to a blind girl so she could get an education.


Hymns

Beautiful Valley of Eden
Do They Know?
Fair Is the Morning Land
Floral Praise
Follow On
Gathering Home to the Silent Shore
Hiding in Thee
Home at Last
I Am Resting So Sweetly in Jesus Now
I Am Waiting by the River
I Have Heard of a Land Far Away
Name of Jesus, The
No Hope in Jesus
Ring the Bells of Heaven
There’ll Be No Dark Valley
Under His Wings
We Are Watching
When He Cometh
When Jesus Comes

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/c/u/cushing_wo.html

Born: March 14, 1826, Buckland, Massachusetts.

Died: April 14, 1888, Boston, Massachusetts.

After moving to Boston as a teenager, Sherwin studied music under Lowell Mason. He later worked at the New England Conservatory of Music, and taught singing in Massachusetts and New York. He was the first music director at the Chautauqua Movement near Chautauqua, New York, and was musical editor at Biglow and Main publishers. His works include:

* Songs of Grace and Glory (with Silas Vail) (New York: Horace Waters & Son, 1874)

Sources

* Erickson, p. 392
* Julian, pp. 1055, 1702
* Nutter, p. 464
* Stulken, p. 313

Hymns

1. God Our Refuge

Music

1. Awake! for the Trumpet Is Sounding!
2. Beautiful Valley of Eden
3. Bread of Life
4. Chautauqua, Evening Praise
5. Cutting
6. Fully Persuaded
7. Galilee, Bright Galilee
8. Hear the Call
9. Heavenly Fold
10. Mason
11. Master’s Call, The
12. Monsell (Sherwin)
13. Praise the Giver of All
14. Sound the Battle Cry
15. Wake the Song
16. Whom Have I in Heaven?

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/s/h/e/sherwin_wf.html

Born in the Van Wert Ohio County Hospital on June 27, 1960, Alvin (Bud) Herman Manz, Jr. was the 3rd of 4 sons born to Betty Manz and firstborn to her second husband, Alvin.

His older siblings, John Paul Rose, Jr. (1956) and Joseph Henry Rose (1957), were born to John Paul Rose. In 1958, John Sr. passed away leaving Betty with 2 little boys to care for until she met Alvin Manz and got married to him on October 3, 1959.

Bud's younger sibling, Robert James Manz, Sr., was born on August 23, 1961.

Bud never married, instead he lives with his father just south of Defiance Ohio.