a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born It Winndham, Greene County, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1807. He spent his early years on his father's farm; was gifted in the use of the English language.; joined thee Church at the age of twenty-two; and in 1836 entered the old Ohio Conference. On the formation of the Michigan Conference he became one of its members;. was transferred to the Rock River Conference in 1853; returned to the Michigan Conference in the year following, located, and in 1868 was readmitted as a superannuate, which relation he sustained until his death, July 23,1876. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1876, p. 113,