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Born: August 1, 1840, near Miami, Saline County, Missouri.
Died: November 30, 1904, at his home in Dayton, Virginia.
Buried: Dayton, Virginia.

Kieffer’s grandfather was Virginia musician Joseph Funk. In the American civil war, Kieffer served in the 10th Virginia Volunteer Infantry. He was one of the founders of the Kieffer-Ruebush Gospel music publisher in Dayton, Virginia, and edited the Musical Million magazine. His works include:

Christian Harp
Temple Star
Hours of Fancy, or Vigil and Vision (Dayton, Virginia: 1881)


Hymns

Jesus Will Let You In
Resurrection, The
Twilight Is Falling

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/k/i/kieffer_as.html

Born: March 10, 1830, Fairfield County, Ohio.

Died: February 10, 1912, Delaware, Ohio.

Buried: Oak Grove, Ohio.

O’Kane received his AB degree from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1852, and his AM degree in 1855. Immediately upon graduation, he accepted a position there as Tutor of Mathematics. Even though he was only a tutor, the students always referred to him as “Professor.” In addition, in recognition of his musical abilities, O’Kane was for years the musical precentor in the daily chapel devotions. He also organized and ran a choral society at the school, and was the first musical instructor in the Ohio Wesleyan Female College.

In 1857, O’Kane became a school principal in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1864, he went to work for the Phillip Phillips piano company. He stayed with the company until it moved to New York in 1867, at which time he moved to Delaware, Ohio, and became a traveling salesman for the Smith American Organ Company of Boston, Massachusetts. During that time he visited conferences and Sunday school conventions, and became well known throughout the area.

O’Kane’s works include:

* Fresh Leaves, 1868
* Dew Drops of Sacred Song
* Songs of Worship
* Every Sabbath
* Jasper and Gold (Cincinnati, Ohio: Hitchcock & Walden, 1877)
* Dew of Hermon
* Forward Songs and Hymns
* Redeemer’s Praise
* Glorious Things
* Morning Stars
* Selected Anthems (co-author with his son, Edward)
* Joy to the World, 1878
* Songs of Redeeming Love No. 2 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: John J. Hood, 1887) (with C. C. McCabe, John Sweney & William Kirkpatrick)

Sources

* Hall, pp. 59-63

Hymns

1. Sure Foundation, The
* Firm Stands the Rock
2. Washed in the Blood of the Lamb

Music

1. Glorious Fountain
2. Go Work in My Vineyard
3. Hallowed Spot, The
4. Home Over There, The
5. Is It for Me?
6. Mighty Rock, Whose Towering Form
7. Opening Hymn
8. Say, Are You Ready?


Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/o/k/okane_tc.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.