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Born: February 17, 1840, Wilson, New York.
Died: July 15, 1882, Midland, Michigan.
Buried: Wilson, New York.

After serving in the American civil war, Atchinson was ordained a Methodist minister, and served in New York and Michigan. He was a strong advocate of Sunday Schools, writing many hymns and songs for that ministry.


Hymns

Behold the Stone Is Rolled Away
Fully Persuaded
In the Shadow of His Wings
Not Half Has Ever Been Told
O Crown of Rejoicing That’s Waiting for Me

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/a/t/atchinson_jb.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.