a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Freedom, Me., in 1795. He experienced conversion at the age of twelve, and in 1818 joined the Maine Conference. In 1826 he located and engaged in business. In 1867 he re- entered the Conference and was put on the supernumerary list, which relation he sustained until his decease, Jan. 18, 1876. Mr. Ayer was kind, persuasive, fluent, and eminently pious. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1876, p. 90.