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Born: December 13, 1835, Boston, Massachusetts.
Died: January 23, 1893, Boston, Massachusetts.
Buried: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston, Massachusetts.

Brooks has been called “the greatest American preacher of the 19th Century.” He attended the Boston Latin School, Harvard University (where Phillips Brooks House was named after him) and Episcopal Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. He became an Episcopal priest in 1860, and became Rector of the Church of the Advent, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was known for his support of freeing the slaves and allowing former slaves to vote. In 1869, he became Rector of Trinity Church in Boston. In 1872, he helped design the Trinity Church building, which today stands in Boston’s Back Bay. In 1891, he became Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts.


Hymns

God Hath Sent His Angels
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Sky Can Still Remember, The

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Born: December 15, 1830, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Died: August 29, 1908, Hotel Marlborough, Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Buried: Woodland Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Redner worked in the real estate business in Philadelphia, and also played the organ at four different churches during his life. He spent the longest time (19 years) at Holy Trinity Church in Philadelphia, where he also helped greatly expand the Sunday School program.

Sources

* Hughes, p. 530
* Hustad, p. 306
* Nutter, p. 463
* Reynolds, p. 389
* Stulken, p. 144

Music

1. St. Louis

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/r/e/redner_lh.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.