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Born: June 21, 1836, Eden, New York.
Died: June 12, 1898, Richmond, Illinois.
Buried: Cedarvale Cemetery, Solon Mills, Illinois.


Bennett’s poetry began appearing in the Waukegan, Illinois, Gazette in the early 1850’s, and he attended the Waukegan academy and University of Michigan. He served as superintendent of schools in Richmond, Illinois, for two years, then in 1860 moved to Elkhorn, Wisconsin, and became associate editor of the Elkhorn Independent. In the American Civil War, he served in the 40th Wisconsin Volunteers. Upon return to Elkhorn, he began running a drugstore, and studied medicine. Graduating from Rush Medical College in 1874, he worked as a doctor for over two decades.


Hymns

In the Sweet By and By

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/b/e/n/bennett_sf.html

Born: March 22, 1819, Manchester, New York.

Died: January 18, 1875, Elkhorn, Wisconsin.

Buried: Hazel Ridge Cemetery, Elkhorn, Wisconsin.

Webster composed and performed popular music. He studied with Lowell Mason and was active musically in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. In 1851, he moved to Madison, Indiana, followed by Chicago, Illinois (1855); Racine, Wisconsin (1856); and finally Elkhorn, Wisconsin (1859). Webster wrote over a thousand ballads and many hymns during his lifetime.

Sources

* Reynolds, p. 435

Music

1. In the Sweet By and By

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/w/e/b/webster_jp.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.