a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born June 13, 1816. He experienced religion in 1832, began preaching in 1834, and in 1836 entered the Pittsburgh Conference, of which he remained a member until 1842, when he was transferred to the Missouri Conference. In 1847 he was retransferred to the Pittsburgh Conference, and in 1853 to the Kentucky Conference, in which he labored one year and then located. He next went further south to recover his. health and united with the Memphis Conference. In 1861 he joined the Kansas Conference, and labored with his usual zeal and fidelity until his death, in 1862. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1862, p. 23.