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Born: Au­gust 22, 1849, Sche­nec­ta­dy, New York.
Died: 1906, Ed­e­son, Il­li­nois.
Mary lived with her crip­pled grand­mo­ther for 18 years, and lat­er took care of her mo­ther, then her fa­ther, un­til he died. It is said that Fan­ny Cros­by was Ma­ry’s in­spir­a­tion to write Gos­pel songs.

Born: July 13, 1854, Stark County, Ohio.

Died: July 10, 1942, Dayton Ohio.

Buried: Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.

Pseudonyms:

* E. D. Mund
* L. S. Edwards

The Lorenz family were Adventists, and emigrated from Messer, Russia (near Saratow), to America, and lived in Dayton, Ohio. Edmund attended Otterbein University, Union Biblical Seminary, Yale Theological Seminary, and the University of Leipzig. He served as pastor of the High Street United Brethren Church in Dayton, Ohio (1884-6), and as president of Lebanon Valley College, Annville, Pennsylvania (1886-8). He later founded the Lorenz and Company music publishing house in Dayton, Ohio. His works include:

* Gates of Praise (with Isaiah Baltzell) (Dayton, Ohio: United Brethren Publishing House, 1884)
* Garnered Sheaves of Song for the Sunday School (with Isaiah Baltzell) (Dayton, Ohio: W. J. Shuey, 1888)
* Songs of the Morning (with Isaiah Baltzell) (Dayton, Ohio: W. J. Shuey, 1889)
* Practical Church Music (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1909)
* Church Music: What a Minister Should Know About It (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1923)
* Music in Work and Worship (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1925)
* The Singing Church, 1937

Sources

* Hall, p. 194
* Reynolds, pp. 360-1

Music

1. Give Me the Bible
2. God Is Love
3. Name of Jesus, The
4. Tell It to Jesus

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/l/o/r/lorenz_es.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.