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Born: April 21, 1856, near Medford, New Jersey.

Died: September 25, 1922, Norman, Oklahoma.

Buried: Mt. Holly, New Jersey.

Oatman attended Herbert’s Academy in Vincentown, New Jersey, and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute in Bordentown. He was ordained as a Methodist Episcopal minister, but his pastoral work was confined to local churches, as he worked full time in the retail and insurance industries. He wrote lyrics for 5,000 Gospel songs.

Sources

* Hustad, p. 296
* Hall, pp. 355-9
* Loyer, p. 30

Hymns

1. Alone with God
2. Come, Soul, and Find Thy Rest
3. Count Your Blessings
4. Deeper Yet
5. Every Bridge Is Burned Behind Me
6. Fire Is Burning, The
7. Hallelujah Side, The
8. He Included Me
9. Higher Ground
10. Holy, Holy, Is What the Angels Sing
11. How the Fire Fell
12. I Know He’s Mine
13. I Will Follow Thee
14. I Will Trade the Old Cross for a Crown
15. Jesus Took My Burden
16. Last Mile of the Way, The
17. Lift Him Up
18. Move Along
19. No, Not One
20. Only Once You Pass This Way
21. Resting in the Arms of Jesus
22. Send a Wave of Salvation Today
23. Sweeter Than All
24. Tell It Wherever You Go
25. When Our Lord Shall Come Again
26. Worthy the Lamb

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/o/a/oatman_j.htm

Edwin Othello Excel USA 1851-1921. Born at Uniontown, OH, he started working as a bricklayer and plasterer. He loved music and went to Chicago to study it under George Root. He married Eliza Jane “Jennie” Bell in 1871. They had a son, William, in 1874. A member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he became a prominent publisher, composer, song leader, and singer of music for church, Sunday school, and evangelistic meetings. He founded singing schools at various locations in the country and worked with evangelist, Sam Jones, as his song leader for two decades. He established a music publishing house in Chicago and authored or composed over 2,000 gospel songs. While assisting Gypsy Smith in an evangelistic campaign in Louisville, KY, he became ill, and died in Chicago, IL. He published 15 gospel music books between 1882-1925. He left an estate valued at $300,000.

John Perry
Source: https://hymnary.org/person/Excell_Edwin

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.