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Born: February 22, 1858, Co­bourg, On­tar­io, Ca­na­da.
Died: May 7, 1927, Cleve­land, Ohio.
Buried: Lake View Ce­me­te­ry, Cleve­land, Ohio.

Biography
Ada was the daugh­ter of Will­iam Blenk­horn and Sar­ah Helm.

Her fa­mi­ly em­i­grat­ed to Am­er­i­ca in 1884, set­tling in Cleve­land, Ohio. She did not mar­ry.

Beginning in 1904, Ada was a sec­re­ta­ry in her bro­ther Hen­ry’s East End Real­ty Com­pa­ny. She be­came com­pa­ny pre­si­dent fol­low­ing Hen­ry’s death in 1923.

Source: http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/l/e/n/blenkhorn_a.htm
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Ada Jane Blenkhorn Canada 1858-1927 Born in Cobourg, Ontario, the 10th of 11 children, she emigrated with her family to the U.S. In 1884 and settled in Cleveland, OH.. She was raised a Methodist, and began writing hymn lyrics at age 34. A prolific writer of hymn lyrics, she was about to give it up when a friend encouraged her to continue, telling her some soul might be saved by a hymn she would write. She worked for many years as secretary to her brother, Henry's, real estate company. After his death in 1923, she became president of the company. She never married.

John Perry

Source: https://hymnary.org/person/Blenkhorn_Ada

Born: April 26, 1834, Sherburne, New York.
Died: November 15, 1907, Yonkers, New York.

Palmer’s mother died when he was three years old. At age seven, he began singing in the church choir directed by his father. Palmer attended the Rushford Academy in New York, then taught there, 1855-1865, becoming the Academy’s music director, and organizing a cornet band there.

Palmer later moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he was choir director at the Second Baptist Church. In addition, he published the magazine Concordia.

Palmer moved back to New York in 1873, and set up the Church Choral Union in 1881. The organization eventually grew to 20,000 singers, and performed in locations such as Madison Square Garden in New York City (where it fielded a 4,000 member choir). Palmer went on to organize similar groups in New York state, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC. In 1877, the Summer School of Music at Chautauqua, New York, was established, and Palmer led it for 14 years. He also conducted annual music festivals in Courtland, New York, and directed the choir at the Broome Street Tabernacle in New York City for 11 years.

Palmer’s works include:

Theory of Music
The Song Queen, 1867
The Song Monarch, 1874
The Choral Union, 1884


Hymns

Angry Words
Have Courage to Say No!
Yield Not to Temptation


Music

Come Close to the Savior
Come, Sinner, Come
Master, the Tempest Is Raging
Memories of Galilee
Silver Star, The
Vincent
Wayside Cross, The

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/p/a/palmer_hr.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.