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Born: August 30, 1820, Sheffield, Massachusetts.

Died: August 6, 1895, Bailey Island, Maine.

Buried: North Reading, Massachusetts.

Pseudonyms

* Wurzel (German for “Root”)
* G. Friedrich Wurzel

Root’s musical talents were evident at an early age. By the time he was 13, he was proud that he could play a tune on as many instruments as his age. In 1838, Root moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he studied under George Webb. In 1845, he moved to New York City, playing the organ at the Church of the Strangers, and teaching music at the Abbott Institute for Young Ladies. In 1850, he toured Europe for a year. Afterward, he started working with Lowell Mason, at Boston’s Academy of Music. In 1851, Root began composing. One of his best known songs is “The Battle Cry of Freedom.” In 1859, Root began work at his brother’s company, Root and Cady, in Chicago, Illinois. In 1872, the University of Chicago awarded him an honorary Doctor of Music degree. Root’s works include:

* The Young Ladies Choir, 1846
* The Pilgrim Fathers, 1854
* Belshazzar’s Feast, 1860
* The Haymakers, 1857
* The Story of a Musical Life, 1891, an autobiography

Sources

* Hall, pp. 29-35
* Nutter, p. 464

Hymns

1. Behold the Bridegroom Cometh
2. Clear as Crystal
3. Come to the Savior
4. Inasmuch
5. O the Way Is Long and Weary
6. She Only Touched the Hem of His Garment
7. Thou Art My Rock
8. Why Do You Wait?

Music

1. Ellon
2. Jerusalem, Thou City Bright
3. Jewels
4. Knocking, Knocking, Who Is There?
5. Lowry
6. O Where Are the Reapers?
7. Rialto
8. Ring the Bells
9. Rosedale
10. Suffer Little Children
11. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
12. Varina
13. We Are Watching
14. We Come in Childhood’s Joyfulness

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/r/o/o/root_gf.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.