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Born: December 5, 1855, near Dundee, Michigan.

Died: July 17, 1939, Temple Terrace, Tampa, Florida.

Buried: Dundee, Michigan.

Van DeVenter attended Hillsdale College, then taught art in Sharon, Pennsylvania. After several years, though, he decided to switch to a career in evangelism, working with Wilbur Chapman and others in America and England. Toward the end of his life, he lived in St. Petersburg, Florida, then moved to Tampa, Florida, around 1923. He was professor of hymnology at the Florida Bible Institute (now Trinity Bible College) for four years.

Sources

* Hustad, pp. 330-1

Hymns

1. Heart That Was Broken for Me, The
2. I Surrender All
3. I Wandered in the Shades of Night
4. Looking This Way
5. My Mother’s Prayer
6. Saved Through Jesus’ Blood
7. Sweeping This Way
8. We Shall Shine as the Stars

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/v/a/n/vandeventer_jw.html

Born: March 29, 1847, Middleport, Ohio.

Died: July 31, 1908, Bisby Lake, New York.

Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City. His tombstone bears the title of his song: “I Surrender All.”

Weeden’s works include:

* The Peacemaker, 1894
* Songs of Sovereign Grace, 1897
* Songs of the Peacemaker, 1895

Sources

* Hustad, pp. 336-7

Music

1. I Surrender All
2. I Wandered in the Shades of Night
3. Jesus All the Way
4. My Mother’s Prayer
5. Somebody Did a Golden Deed

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/w/e/e/weeden_ws.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.