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Born: October 11, 1895, Chicago, Illinois.
Died: January 14, 1985, Chicago, Illinois.
Pseudonyms

Christian B. Anson
Avis Burgesson
Aavis Burgeson
Constance B. Reid

Encouraged by her grandmother, a godly woman who loved the music of the soul as expressed in verse, Avis wrote her first poem at age ten. Then one Sunday morning in Moody Church, as she listened to a new song by Harry Loes, the Lord reminded her that the talent entrusted to her belonged to Him. Her immediate longing to express His love and blessing resulted in two hymns. One of them, “That Is Far Enough for Me,” was quickly set to music by Daniel Towner, then director of music for the Moody Bible Institute.

In 1917, Avis married Ernest C. Christiansen, who later became vice president in charge of investments for Moody Bible Institute. In spite of fulfilling the many duties of a busy homemaker, she continued to write with unfailing zeal. In addition to her hymns, she published two books of poetry:

His Faithfulness, 1949
Avis Christiansen’s Most-Loved Poems, 1962

In the foreword to her first book of poetry, the legendary pastor and author H. A. Ironside wrote:

Avis B. Christiansen is the gifted author of many of our
sweetest gospel songs. By means of these her name is known
around the world, for many of these delightful lyrics have
been translated into various languages. She is a modest,
retiring person whom few get to know beyond the circle
of her immediate family and friends. With a very keen
apprehension of spiritual realities, and a clear understanding
of the great truths revealed in the Word of God, her hymns and
poems are eminently Scriptural and soul-uplifting.


Hymns

Blessed Calvary (© 1921)
Blessed Redeemer
How Can It Be? (© 1961)
I Know I’ll See Jesus Some Day
I’m Abiding in Canaan Land
It Is Glory Just to Walk With Him
I’ve Found a Refuge
Jesus Has Lifted Me
Jesus! Wonderful Name!
Lost in His Love
Love Found a Way
Only Glory By and By
Only One Life
Precious Hiding Place (© 1928)
Precious Melody
That Is Far Enough for Me
Trusting Thee More
Victory in Jesus
We Shall Gather in the Morning
What Must I Do?

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/c/h/r/christiansen_amb.html

Born: November 19, 1885, Stord Island (near Bergen), Norway.
Died: August 18, 1959, Aspen, Colorado.
Buried: Floral Hills Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri.

Pseudonyms

Virginia Rose Golden
Laverne Gray
Richard Hainsworth
Rev. H. N. Lines
Robert Whitmore
Ferne Winters

Lillenas emigrated to America as a child; his family settled first in South Dakota, then moved to Oregon in 1889. He attended Deets Pacific Bible College in Los Angeles, California (later renamed to Pasadena College); studied music at the Siegel-Myers School of Music in Chicago, Illinois; and received an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Olivet Nazarene College. His first pastorate was in Lompoc, California, in 1910; he later pastored in Redlands, California, and Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1924, he founded the Lillenas Music Company (bought by the Nazarene Publishing Company in 1930), and worked as an editor there until his retirement in 1950.

Haldor married Bertha Mae Wilson, a songwriter like himself. He and Bertha were elders in the Church of the Nazarene. Haldor traveled as an evangelist, then pastored several churches, 1914-1924. In his lifetime, he wrote some 4,000 hymns, and supplied songs for many evangelists. His works include:

Special Sacred Songs, 1919
New Sacred Songs
Strains of Love
Special Sacred Songs No. 2


Hymns

And Yet There Is Room (© 1928)
Bible Stands, The
Church of God, Awaken
Climbing Up the Hills of God (© 1957)
Come Just as You Are (© 1928)
Don’t Turn Him Away (© 1925)
Dear Old Bible, The
Dusky Hands
Garden of My Heart, The
Glorious Freedom
He Has Called Me by My Name (© 1927)
He Is Mine (© 1929)
He Set Me Free
Higher Than the Mountain (© 1957)
Holy Spirit, God Most Holy (© 1957)
I Have Found a Precious Resting Place
I Know a Name (© 1928)
I Have Settled the Question
I Lost the World (© 1924)
Jesus Will Walk With Me (© 1922)
Leave Your Burden at the Place of Prayer (© 1934)
Lord, I Am Pleading (© 1924)
Loyal and True (© 1930)
More Than a Friend (© 1928)
My Burden Is Gone (© 1923)
My Mother’s Old Bible Is True (© 1929)
My Wonderful Lord (© 1938)
My Wonderful Friend
O My Heart Sings Today (© 1924)
Once I Was Bound by Sin’s Galling Fetters
Peace That Jesus Gives, The (© 1931)
One Day I Traveled a Toilsome Road
Savior Have I, More Precious to Me, A (© 1931)
Soldiers of Immanuel (1919)
Standing on the Word (© 1927)
Surrender to Jesus (© 1953)
Sweeping This Way
Tell the Blessed Story
There’s a Blessed and Triumphant Song
Under the Atoning Blood (© 1918)
When Jesus Whispers, “Peace”
When the Holy Ghost Abides (© 1929)
Why Carry Your Load? (© 1931)
Where They Need No Sun
Wonderful Grace of Jesus
Wonderful Peace
Word of God, The


Music

Church in the Village, The
Count Me
Glory Just to Walk
I’m Abiding in Canaan Land
Jesus Has Lifted Me
Jesus Intercedes for Me (© 1933)
Steady, Brother, Steady

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/l/i/l/lillenas_h.html

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Lillenas, Haldor, composer, author, publisher; b. Bergen, Norway, Nov. 19, 1885. ASCAP 1938. To U.S. 1887. Educ.: elementary schools Oregon; four-year course in chemistry and chemical analysis, private tutors; Deets Pacific Bible College, Los Angeles; voice at Lyric School of Music, Los Angeles; with Daniel Protheroe and Adolph Rosenbecker. Honorary degree Doctor of Music, Olivet Nazarene Coll., Kankakee, 111. Elder, Church of the Nazarene 1912; pastor fifteen years; singing evangelist ten years. Member Eugene Field Literary Society Headquarters, St. Louis. At present music editor of own music publishing house, and also of another music publishing house. Songs: "Wonderful Grace of Jesus"; "It Is Glory Just to Walk with Him"; "Jesus Will Walk with Me"; "How Can I Be Lonely?"; "Jesus Has Lifted Me"; "Wonderful Peace"; "Where They Need No Sun"; "The Garden of My Heart"; "Peace that My Saviour Has Given"; "The Theme of My Song"; "I Know a Name"; "I Have Settled the Question"; and more than three thousand other numbers including

many cantatas for Easter and Christmas, Special Day services and editor and compiler of over fifty song books for church and Sunday school. Home: Lee Summit, Mo. Address: c/o ASCAP.

Source: http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/music-search/music-songs-composers%20-%200408.htm

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.