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Born: January 22, 1855, Walden, Vermont.
Died: March 27, 1934, Portland, Oregon.
Buried: Rose City Cemetery, Portland, Oregon.


Carrie’s family moved from Vermont to Vineland, New Jersey, and she spent most of her life in southern New Jersey. She married Frank Breck, and they moved to Oregon between 1910 and 1920. A devout Christian, she was devoted to her husband and five daughters. She had no sense of pitch, and could not carry a tune, but she had the gift of poetic rhythm, and wrote more than 2,000 poems. She was not particularly robust in health, and had to take frequent rests while doing chores. At such times, she would sit in her favorite rocking chair, take up a notebook, and write poetry, often with a baby on her knee, or playing at her feet. Her works include:

To Comfort Thee, and Other Verses
(Portland, Oregon: Metropolitan Printing Company, 1927)


Hymns

All the World for Jesus
At Mother’s Grave
Be Strong
Columbia’s Song
Face to Face with Christ, My Savior
Forward!
Go to the Deeps of God’s Promise
Have You Found the Savior Precious?
He Did Not Die in Vain
Help Somebody Today
I Cannot Get Beyond His Love
I Want Everybody to Know
I’ll Count My Blessings
It Is Not Fair
Make Him Known
Nailed to the Cross
Savior for You, The
Some One Who Knows
Step in Anywhere
Tell Thy Life-Story to Jesus
There’s a Beautiful City (© 1935)
Valley of Peace, The
When Love Shines In
You Mean to Be Saved—But When?


Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/b/r/e/breck_cee.html

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.