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Born: October 26, 1813, London, England.

Died: July 6, 1879, London, England.

Buried: Hampstead Cemetery, London.

Smart became the organist at Blackburns Church, Lancashire, England, in 1831. He went on to play the organ at St. Philip’s Church, St. Luke’s Church, and St. Pancras Church, London. He went blind in 1864, but continued to compose. He was the music editor for Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867), the Presbyterian Hymnal (1875) and the hymn book of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland.

Sources

* Erickson, p. 397
* Frost, pp. 690-1
* Nutter, p. 465
* Stulken, pp. 152-3

Music

1. Bethany
2. Everton
3. Faith
4. Forward
5. Gloria
6. Hampton
7. Heathlands
8. Lancashire
9. Misericordia
10. Moseley
11. Nachtlied
12. Pilgrims
13. Regent Square
14. Rex Gloriae
15. St. Leonard
16. Trisagion

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/s/m/a/smart_ht.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.