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Van Arsdale, Melville
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
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a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Montgomery County, Ind., March 21,1845; embraced religion in his fourteenth year; studied at Thorntown Academy; served as a soldier in the Union army; and in 1867 entered the Upper Iowa Conference. Later he was transferred to the North-west Indiana Conference, wherein he labored but a short time, and then returned to his father's home in Thorntown, and died Dec. 25, 1875. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1876, p. 98.
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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Van Arsdale, Melville'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​v/van-arsdale-melville.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Van Arsdale, Melville'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​v/van-arsdale-melville.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.