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Born: July 27, 1861, Middlebury, Indiana.

Died: December 27, 1937, Wichita, Kansas.

Buried: Kingman, Kansas.

In 1885, Nusbaum began teaching school in Marion County, Kansas. He became an ordained Methodist minister in 1886, and pastored in Douglass, Goddard, Wichita, and Kingman, Kansas. He went on to serve as educational secretary at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas (1895-97); pastor at Ottawa, Kansas (1897-1903); presiding elder of the Independent District (1903-7); and pastor at Parsons, Kansas (1908-14). In 1914, the Methodist Conference appointed him as an evangelist. During World War I, he served as an American Red Cross inspector in France, holding the rank of U.S. Army captain. After the war, he often spoke on the Redpath Lyceum circuit, and held evangelistic meetings in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. Southwestern College conferred a DD degree upon him. In his latter years he served small Kansas churches, and was a “supply preacher” at Lost Springs and Antelope.

Sources

* Reynolds, p. 375

Hymns

1. His Way with Thee

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/n/u/nusbaum_cs.html

Born: July 27, 1861, Middlebury, Indiana.

Died: December 27, 1937, Wichita, Kansas.

Buried: Kingman, Kansas.

In 1885, Nusbaum began teaching school in Marion County, Kansas. He became an ordained Methodist minister in 1886, and pastored in Douglass, Goddard, Wichita, and Kingman, Kansas. He went on to serve as educational secretary at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas (1895-97); pastor at Ottawa, Kansas (1897-1903); presiding elder of the Independent District (1903-7); and pastor at Parsons, Kansas (1908-14). In 1914, the Methodist Conference appointed him as an evangelist. During World War I, he served as an American Red Cross inspector in France, holding the rank of U.S. Army captain. After the war, he often spoke on the Redpath Lyceum circuit, and held evangelistic meetings in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. Southwestern College conferred a DD degree upon him. In his latter years he served small Kansas churches, and was a “supply preacher” at Lost Springs and Antelope.

Sources

* Reynolds, p. 375

Hymns

1. His Way with Thee

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/n/u/nusbaum_cs.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.