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Born: November 4, 1771, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland.

Died: April 30, 1854, Mount, Sheffield, England.

Buried: Sheffield, England. In his memory, a statue was erected in the Sheffield cemetery, a stained glass window was installed in the parish church, and a public hall was named after him.

When Montgomery was five years old, his family moved to the Moravian settlement at Gracehill, near Ballymena, County Antrim. Two years later, he was sent to the Fulneck Seminary in Yorkshire. He left Fulneck in 1787 to work in a shop in Mirfield, near Wakefield. Soon tiring of that, he secured a similar position at Wath, near Rotherham, only to find it as unsuitable as his previous job. A trip to London, hoping to find a publisher for his youthful poems, ended in failure. In 1792, he gladly left Wath for Sheffield to be assistant to Mr. Gales, auctioneer, bookseller, and printer of the Sheffield Register. In 1794, Gales left England to avoid political prosecution. Montgomery took the Sheffield Register in hand, changed its name to the Sheffield Iris, and continued to edit it for 32 years. During the next two years he was imprisoned twice, first for reprinting a song in commemoration of the fall of the Bastille, then for giving an account of a riot in Sheffield.

Born: October 23, 1819, Beverly, Massachusetts.

Died: October 26, 1858, Columbia, South Carolina.

Buried: Union Cemetery, Norwalk, Connecticut.

Woodbury studied with Lowell Mason in Boston, Massachusetts. He had further studies in Paris and London in the late 1830’s. After returning to Boston, he taught music, played the organ, and conducted choral groups. He edited World of Music and the American Monthly Musical Review. In 1849 he moved to New York. After contracting tuberculosis, he traveled in the Mediterranean and Florida. His works include oratorios, cantatas, chorus, flees, piano pieces, teaching pieces, and:

* Elements of Musical Composition, 1844 (later reissued as Self-Instructor in Musical Composition)
* Dulcimer; or, New York Collection of Sacred Music, 1850 and later
* Liber Musicus, 1851
* Cythara, 1854
* The Casket (Charleston, South Carolina: 1855)
* New Lute of Zion, 1856

Sources

* Nutter, p. 469
* Randel, p. 995

Hymns

1. Ho, Reapers of Life’s Harvest

Music

1. Chopin
2. Eucharist
3. Lake Enon
4. Nearer Home
5. Rakem
6. Selena
7. Siloam
8. Sinner Forgiven, A
9. Speed Away
10. Talmar
11. Woodbury

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/w/o/woodbury_ib.html

Born in the Van Wert Ohio 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 lives with his father just south of Defiance Ohio.