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Born: October 7, 1810, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England.
Died: January 12, 1871, Canterbury, Kent, England.
For his own epitaph, he wrote: “The inn of a pilgrim traveling to
Jerusalem.”
Buried: St. Martin’s, Canterbury, Kent, England.

Alford wrote the following in his Bible at age 16:

I do this day in the presence of God and my own soul renew
my covenant with God and solemnly determine henceforth to
become his and to do his work as far as in me lies.

Alford attended Ilminster Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and was ordained in 1833. He was Curate at Winkfield, Wiltshire, and Ampton, and Vicar at Wymeswold, Leicestershire (where he served 18 years). In 1853, he went to Quebec Chapel, London; in 1857, he became dean of Canterbury Cathedral. He was also a scholar, producing volumes on Homer, English poetry, and the Greek New Testament. His works include:

Poems and Poetical Fragments (Cambridge, England: J. J. Deighton, 1833)
Psalms and Hymns, 1844
Poetical Works, 1845
The Year of Praise, 1867


Hymns

Brightly Did the Light Divine
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
Forward! Be Our Watchword
Herald in the Wilderness
Highest and the Holiest Place, The
In Token That Thou Shalt Not Fear
Let the Church of God Rejoice
Not in Anything We Do
O Thou at Whose Divine Command
O Thou Who Hast Thy Servants Taught
O Why on Death So Bent?
Of All the Honors Man May Wear
Our Year of Grace Is Wearing to a Close
Savior, Thy Father’s Promise Send
Since We Kept the Savior’s Birth
Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand
Thou That Art the Father’s Word
Thou Who on That Wondrous Journey
Through Israel’s Coasts in Times of Old
Thy Blood, O Christ, Hath Made Our Peace
We Walk by Faith
When in the Lord Jehovah’s Name

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/a/l/f/alford_h.html

Born: August 28, 1840, Edinburg, Pennsylvania.
Died: August 13, 1908, Brooklyn, New York.
Buried: GreenWood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
Pseudonym: Rian A. Dykes (an anagram of “Ira D. Sankey”)

As a young man, Sankey served in the American Civil War. He often helped the unit chaplain and led his fellow soldiers in hymn singing. After the war, he joined the Internal Revenue Service, and also worked with the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA). He became well known as a Gospel singer, and eventually came to the attention of evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody. The two men met at a YMCA convention in Indianapolis, Indiana, in June, 1870. Some months later, Sankey attended his first evangelistic meeting with Moody, and resigned from government service shortly thereafter.

In October 1871, Sankey and Moody were in the middle of a revival meeting when the Great Chicago Fire began. The two men barely escaped the conflagration with their lives. Sankey ended up watching the city burn from a rowboat far out on Lake Michigan.

Sankey composed about 1,200 songs in his lifetime. He was blind from glaucoma the last five years of his life, and no doubt found a kindred spirit in his friend and music making partner, blind hymnist Fanny Crosby. His works include:

Welcome Tidings: A New Collection of Sacred Songs for the Sunday School
(with Robert Lowry & Howard Doane) (New York: Biglow & Main, 1877)
Gems of Song for the Sunday School
(with Hubert Main) (Chicago, Illinois: The Biglow & Main Co., 1901)


Music

Able to Deliver
Army of Endeavor
Behold the Wondrous Love
Believe and Obey
Blessed Redeemer
Bring in the Children
Christian’s “Good Night”, The
Cleansing Fountain, The
Clephane
Come, Oh Come, with Thy Broken Heart
Crewdson
Descend, O Flame
Faith Is the Victory
Glory Ever Be to Jesus
Great Jehovah, Mighty Lord
Handwriting on the Wall, The
Harbor Bell, The
Hear Us, O Savior!
How Can I Keep from Singing?
I Am Praying for You
I Know He Is Mine
It Is Finished!
It Passeth Knowledge
Jesus, I Will Trust Thee
King Is Coming, The
Light After Darkness
Little While, A
Lord Is King!, The
Model Church, The
Mountain
Never Say Goodbye
Newcastle
Ninety and Nine, The
Not Now, My Child
O Blessèd Be the Lord
O Brother, Life’s Journey Beginning
O Beautiful Sea
O Child of God
O Precious Word
O Songs of the Beautiful
Onward Will We Go
O’er Land and Sea
Onward, Upward
Over the Beautiful River
Precious Blessings
Resurrection Morn
Sankey
Send the Gospel Light
Shadow of the Rock, The
Shelter in the Time of Storm, A
Song of Heaven and Homeland, A
Story That Never Grows Old, The
Substitution
Take Me as I Am
Tell It Out
Thanks for the Bible
There Are Lonely Hearts to Cherish
There’ll Be No Dark Valley
This Is Our Endeavor
Thy Hand Upholdeth Me
To Arms! To Arms! Ye Soldiers!
Trust
Trusting Jesus
Under His Wings
Waiting for Thy Coming
What a Gathering
When My Weary Hands Are Folded
When the King Shall Come!
When the Mists Have Rolled Away
Wonderful Word

Source: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/s/a/n/sankey_id.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.