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a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Vevay, Ind., Oct. 2, 1833. He became a Christian when seventeen, and three years later entered Asbury University. In 1854 he was licensed to preach, and in 1857 was received into the Southeastern Indiana Conference; but in 1859 he went to Minnesota, and entered the Minnesota Conference. In 1863 he was superannuated, but in 1864 resumed work, was again superannuated in 1872, made effective in 1873, and appointed to Reed's and Wabashaw, his last appointment. He died at Reed's Landing, Minn. Feb. 16, 1874. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1874, p. 152.