eHymns.org

Sorry, we have no information for this author

Born: February 27, 1843, Schenectady, New York.

Died: March 17, 1911, Brooklyn, New York.

Peek worked as a carpenter, farmer and drug store clerk before serving in the American civil war. He then pursued the role of florist from 1881 to 1904, then became a Methodist lay minister and traveled throughout America, including Maine, Florida, and California. Though lacking formal musical training, he played the violin, piano, and banjo. A member of the Nostrand-DeKalb Methodist Episcopal Church in Brooklyn, New York, he became a fully ordained minister two months before his death.

Sources

* Hustad, p. 300

Music

1. I Would Be True

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/p/e/peek_jy.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.