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Born: May 7, 1839, Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania.
Died: November 25, 1929, Chicago, Illinois.
Buried: Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois.

A minister’s son, Hoffman attended Union Seminary in New Berlin, Pennsylvania, and was ordained in 1868. Afterward, he worked with the Evangelical Association’s publishing arm in Cleveland, Ohio for 11 years. He pastored in Cleveland and Grafton, Ohio, in the 1880s; at the First Presbyterian Church in Benton Harbor, Michigan, around the turn of the century; and in Cabery, Illinois (1911-1922). In his lifetime, he wrote over 2,000 Gospel songs. The 50 song books he edited include:

The Evergreen, 1873
Spiritual Songs for Gospel Meetings and the Sunday School, 1878
Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 (Chicago, Illinois: Hope Publishing Company, 1894)

Hymns
Are You Washed in the Blood?
Down at the Cross
Down Low at My Redeemer’s Feet
Draw Me Closer, Lord, to Thee
Enough for Me
Give Him the Glory
Hallowed Hour of Prayer
I Must Tell Jesus
Is It Not Wonderful?
Is Thy Heart Right with God?
Is Your All on the Altar?
It Is Mine
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
Lord I Am Fondly, Earnestly Longing (Open The Wells)
Lord Is Coming By and By, The
No Other Friend Like Jesus
Over the Rolling Sea
Power for Service
Sing of Jesus
Speed the Light
What a Wonderful Savior!
Where Will You Spend Eternity?
Would You Know Why I Love Jesus?

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/h/o/f/hoffman_ea.htm

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Born: May 1, 1858, Cherry Grove, Virginia.

Died: November 16, 1924, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Buried: West Hill Cemetery, Dalton, Georgia.

Showalter was a music teacher, author and publisher. He studied with Benjamin C. Unseld and George F. Root; for a year in 1895, he studied music for in England, France, and Germany. He published over 130 music books, which sold more than a million copies. He was principal of the Southern Normal Musical Institute in Dalton, Georgia from its inception in 1880. He edited The Musical Teacher for over 20 years, and served as an elder of the First Presbyterian Church in Dalton, Georgia. His works include Harmony and Composition, 1880.

Sources

* Anderson, p. 202
* Baxter, pp. 175-7
* Erickson, p. 392
* Hall, pp. 361-3

Music

1. Draw Me Closer, Lord, to Thee
2. Like a Wayward Child I’ve Wandered
3. Showalter
4. Waves of Salvation, The

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/s/h/o/showalter_aj.html

Born in the Van Wert Ohio 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 lives with his father just south of Defiance Ohio.