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Born: January 1, 1865, Horrabridge, Devonshire, England.
Died: November 10, 1933, Wells, Vermont.


Son of John Rowe, a copper miner, James worked for the Irish government for four years, then emigrated to America at age 24. He settled in Albany, New York, and worked in railroads in New York for 10 years. He then became an inspector for the Hudson River Humane Society. He then worked for music publishers in Texas and Tennessee, and in his later years, moved to Vermont and worked with his daughter, an artist, writing verses for greeting cards.


Hymns

After the Midnight
Anywhere Thou Leadest
Because I Love Jesus
Everybody Ought to Love Him
God Holds the Future in His Hands
God is Goodness, God Is Love
Greet the Everlasting King (© 1943)
Happy Sunbeams
He’s My King
His Promise to Me
I Am So Glad Salvation’s Free
I Choose Jesus
I Walk with the King
I Would Be Like Jesus
If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again
I’m Bound for the Kingdom of Glory and Song (© 1937)
Jesus Is All I Need (© 1929)
Love Lifted Me
No Room (© 1928)
Rapture Indeed!
Sweet Harbor Bells (© 1924)
Sweeter as the Days Go By
There Is Room in His Heart for You
What a Matchless Savior (© 1935)
What Is He Worth to Your Soul?
When the Shadows Flee
Wonderful Message
Work I Ought to Do, The

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/r/o/w/rowe_j.html

Born: September 27, 1872, Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was brother to Alfred Ackley.
Died: September 3, 1958, Winona Lake, Indiana.
Buried: Oakwood Cemetery, Warsaw, Indiana. Homer Rodeheaver lies nearby.


Ackley showed musical talent early, learning the melodeon, piano, coronet, clarinet and piccolo as a boy. After moving to New York City in 1888, he began playing the organ in several churches. In 1907, he joined the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver evangelism team as secretary-pianist, and traveled with them for eight years. As a composer and editor with the Rodeheaver Company, he wrote over 3,000 Gospel tunes. His works include:

Best Temperance Songs (Chicago, Illinois:
The Glad Tidings Publishing Company, 1913) (music editor)


Music

Behold, He Cometh
By and By
Coming Home
Hark! I Hear My Name
Have You Prayed It Through?
He Rose Triumphantly (© 1944)
He Will Not Let Me Fall
How You Will Love Him!
I Am Coming Home
I Love Jesus
I Shall Dwell Forever There
I Walk with the King
I Want Jesus (© 1933)
If Thou Shalt Confess
I Would Be Like Jesus
If Your Heart Keeps Right
In the Service of the King
Meet Your Troubles with a Smile (© 1933)
More Than These
Once My Way Was Dark and Dreary
Pardoning Grace
Repent! ’Tis the Voice of Jesus
Satisfied
Shout and Sing
Somebody Else Needs a Blessing
Somebody Knows
Sunrise
There Is Joy in Serving Jesus (1931)
There’s a Rainbow Shining Somewhere (© 1939)
There Will I Follow Thee
This My Plea
Where the Cross Is Leading
Who Will Open Mercy’s Door?

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/a/c/ackley_bd.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.