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to peace conferences in the States and to the World Peace Conference at Geneva, Switzerland.
MERLIN ESTES GARBER is a Virginian; he was born in Augusta County on March 26, 1912, the son of John C. and Sadie Houff Garber. He was baptized by his father in 1921. His marriage to Dorothy Faw of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, took place on June 3, 1934. They have one son and one daughter. After attending Bridgewater College from 1932 to 1934, he received an A.B. degree from the Univer- sity of Illinois in 1937 and an A.M. degree in 1939. He graduated from Bethany Bib- lical Seminary in 1941 with a B.D. degree and was a sum- MERLIN E. GARBER AND WIFE mer student at Yale Univer- sity in 1945. His election to the ministry occurred on May 27, 1932. While he was living in Southern Illinois he was ordained to the eldership. From 1934 to 1949 he was the pastor at Champaign, Illinois; since 1949 he has served the Central church of Roanoke, Virginia. Twice he was the Standing Committee delegate from Southern Illinois. From 1935 to 1939 he was the adult adviser of the youth of this district. As a member of the board of administration and the district ministerial committee, as moderator of dis- trict meeting, and as an evangelist, he made additional con- tributions to the district.
SOLOMON WINE GARBER, the son of Abraham D. and Magdalene Wine Garber, was born in Augusta County, Virginia, on April 25, 1849. He was married to Catharine
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Susan Harnsbarger of Augusta County on September 21, 1876; three sons and two daugh- ters were born to them. He united with the Church of the Brethren on September 14, 1866. During the year 1890-1891 he was a student and a teacher at Bridge- water College. He was elected deacon on May 14, 1879; elected to the ministry on August 20, 1881; ordained to the eldership on January 16, 1897. From 1876 to 1894 he was a farmer and teacher in Augusta County and from 1894 S. W. GARBER to 1902 did the same type of work in Lawrence County, Illinois; from 1902 to 1906 he was a grocer in Decatur, Illinois; from 1906 to 1910 he farmed again in Lawrence County. After giving many years in the free ministry he became the part-time pastor at Decatur, Illi- nois, 1902-1906. Other pastorates were: Ottumwa, Iowa, 1916-1919; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Plattsburg, Missouri, 1921- 1923; Conway Springs, Kansas, 1923-1925. Three times he served on Standing Committee. He died January 26, 1934.
PAUL J. GIBBEL was the son of Abraham and Emma Bru- baker Gibbel; he was born near Hemet, California, March 29, 1896. In 1900 his parents moved near Girard, Illinois. He was baptized when eleven years old, and was elected to the ministry in the Virden congregation in 1917. After receiving an A.B. degree from Mount Morris College in 1920, he attended the University of Iowa from 1920 to 1923; his M.D. degree was granted by the University of Illinois in 1925. The following year he served his interneship in the Frances Willard Hospital in Chicago. On June 9, 1926,
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he married Verda Hershberger; they left for the mission field in Nigeria in September 1926. Besides carrying on the medical work at Garkida he had charge of building the Ruth Royer Kulp Memorial Hospital. In March 1929 the Gibbels moved to the Lassa station and were busy with the medical program there until they left Africa in Novem- ber of that year. At present he is practicing medicine at Hollansburg, Ohio.
CHARLES C. GIBSON was born to Cullen C. and Nancy Jane Daugherty Gibson, in Morgan County, Illinois, July 3, 1850. He became a member of the Church of the Brethren early in life. On December 22, 1870 he married Susan Neher, who was born in Clark County, Ohio; ten children- seven sons and three daughters-were born to them. He taught school in the vicinity of Girard for many years, and also farmed. He was elected to the ministry in the West Otter Creek church in 1892, and was later ordained to the eldership. His ministerial service was in the West Otter Creek and Pleasant Hill churches, but he also served at many mission points in the district. He assisted in several Bible schools and institutes. On November 12, 1913, he died in Macoupin County, Illinois.
CULLEN C. GIBSON was born to James and Hannah Mere- dith Gibson in Rutherford County, Tennessee, February 1, 1823. In 1852 he united with the Church of the Brethren. On September 10, 1843, he married Nancy Jane Daugherty of Morgan County, Illinois; they became the parents of seven sons and seven daughters. Most of his learning came through observation and studying his Bible while he worked. He moved to Macoupin County, Illinois, in 1864 and settled on a farm near Girard. In 1859 he was elected to the min- istry in the Sugar Creek church. His free ministerial serv- ice was given largely to the Macoupin and Sangamon
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County churches. He had advanced views, and was looked upon as a leader of liberal thought ahead of his time. A man of strong convictions and good judgment, he took an active part in community interests and was considered a good counselor in business affairs and in spiritual leader- ship. He died at his home in Macoupin County on October 8, 1920.
DANIEL B. GIBSON, son of Isham and Elizabeth Gates Gibson, was born in Wilson County, Tennessee, April 24, 1836. On December 12, 1858, he was married to Anna Sturgis, daughter of Elder D. B. Sturgis; three sons and three daugh- ters were born to them. He taught in the public schools, and studied medicine with Dr. D. B. Sturgis but never prac- ticed medicine. He was the author of the books: The Lord's Supper, The Horseback Preacher, and Our Faith and Prac- tice. He united with the Church of the Brethren on March 13, 1859, was elected deacon in September 1862, was called to be a minister on September 1, 1869, and was ordained an elder in August 1877. For forty-five years he was active in evangelistic and pastoral work, preaching in eleven states and in one third of the one hundred two counties in Illi- nois, and doing ministerial work in St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joseph and Plattsburg, Missouri, at Carlton, Kansas, and at many other places. In 1877 he held his first series of meetings at what was later Mount Morris College. He baptized over one thousand persons. His ministerial serv- ices in the district centered in the Milmine, Pleasant Hill, and Macoupin Creek congregations. Twice he served on Standing Committee. He died at Girard on August 16, 1921.
FRANK W. GIBSON, the son of Charles C. and Susan Neher Gibson, was born near Girard, Illinois, April 18, 1881. He united with the Church of the Brethren in 1894. In 1900 he moved with his parents to Auburn, Illinois. For four
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years he taught in the public schools of that community. He married Leona Ellen Filbrun on June 20, 1906; four daughters were born to them. Elected to the ministry in the Sugar Creek church near Auburn in 1907, he was or- dained to the eldership at Miami, New Mexico, where he had located in 1909. There he spent the remaining thirty- five years of his life in faithful service. During his later years, with health failing, he gave a portion of his time to teaching carpentry to boys in the New Mexico Industrial School at Springer. He died on March 28, 1945.
GEORGE W. GIBSON was born in Morgan County, Illinois, March 24, 1858. His parents were Cullen C. and Nancy Jane Daugherty Gibson. He united with the Church of the Brethren in June 1877. On July 13, 1879, he and Re- becca Harshbarger of Girard, Illinois, were married; to them were born four sons and four daughters, one of whom, Lu- cile Heckman, is a missionary in Nigeria. His second mar- riage was to Mary Gay, also of Girard, on December 28, 1904. He was an efficient teacher for many years. His elec- tion to the ministry occurred in the Macoupin Creek church, near Girard, in February of 1883. Here he served in the free ministry, and also in the West Otter Creek church, eight miles west of Girard. For a short time he was pastor of the Indian Creek church near Maxwell, Iowa, later returning to Girard. He did much preaching, including some successful evangelistic work, in different communities. Later he changed his membership to the Baptist Church and served in it as an elder to the end of his life. He died at Girard in March 1942.
IRVIN J. GIBSON, son of Charles C. and Susan Neher Gibson, was born in Macoupin County, Illinois, March 22, 1890. He was baptized by his father in 1903. He married Ethel, daughter of Cornelius Mummert, of Astoria, Illinois,
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on December 24, 1919; to them were born one son and one daughter. He spent four years at Mount Morris College, attended Western Illinois State Teachers' Col- lege, and has a B.D. degree from Bethany Biblical Seminary. He taught in Hebron Seminary, Nokes- ville, Virginia, 1920-1921, and four- teen years in the high schools of Illi- nois. He was elected to the ministry in 1912 and ordained to the eldership in 1918. His record of ministerial service is: pastor, Liberty, Illinois, June to December 1918; assistant pastor, Douglas Park, Chicago, 1919- I. J. GIBSON 1920; pastor, Canton, Ohio, 1923-1924; pastor, Fostoria, Ohio, 1924-1926; pastor, Woodland church, Illinois, 1926-1927; pastor, Astoria, 1934-1937; elder at Can- ton, Illinois, 1935-1947; evangelist in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Iowa, Missouri, and Ohio.
ISHAM GIBSON was born in Wilson County, Tennessee, June 15, 1803. His parents were members of the Primitive Baptist Church, with hopes that their son would become a Baptist preacher. On one occasion Isham, his father, and a neighbor rode fifteen miles to hear Elder Joseph Roland, who was a stranger to all of them, preach; a little later Isham rode forty miles to have Elder Roland baptize him. He had been teaching school at the age of eighteen. When he was twenty he was elected to the ministry and was or- dained an elder three years later, on May 26, 1826. He studied the doctrines of the Brethren with intensity and became one of the best informed Brethren in the West; he was a typical pioneer preacher. In 1829 he moved to Mor- gan County, Illinois, and on March 20, 1830, was married
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to Elizabeth Gates. In Illinois he again met Elder Joseph Roland and they, with John Dick, organized the Sugar Creek church, June 20, 1830, the second congregation of the Church of the Brethren to be established in Illinois. He presided over this church for thirty-eight years. His straightforward preaching led to challenges for debates. The Hostetler-Gibson debate in 1833 was held in the old two- story log courthouse in Decatur where Lincoln later held court; after the debate he baptized eight. In 1840 he de- bated with Mr. Morgan, an infidel, with the result that Mr. Morgan became a Christian. Elder Gibson and George Wolfe traveled and worked much together for over thirty years. Three of his sons were ordained elders and all through life were active in the Church of the Brethren. At the age of sixty-nine he moved to Bates County, Missouri, where he died on December 6, 1875.
JAVAN GIBSON, son of Isham and Elizabeth Gates Gibson, was born near Franklin, Illinois, March 5, 1835. He mar- ried Mary Cummings of Virden, Illi- nois, on March 13, 1856; three sons and six daughters were born to them. His wife died in April 1889. He was married to Elizabeth Studebaker Lear of Farmersville, Illinois, on De- cember 1, 1889. Being a good reader and thinker he acquired a liberal education in his adult years. His par- ents moved to Macoupin County about 1844, settling nine miles west of Virden. Here he drove an ox team while breaking up the virgin prairie JAVAN GIBSON soil. He united with the Church of the Brethren in July 1857, was elected a deacon in 1859, was called to the ministry in 1875 and
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ordained to the eldership in 1883. He helped to organize churches and build nine church houses, and was elder-in- charge of a number of congregations. His death occurred on January 16, 1919.
JAMES RUFUS GISH was born in Roanoke County, Vir- ginia, June 4, 1826. His parents were devout members of the Church of the Brethren. In 1848 he married Barbara Kindig. The same year they emigrated with others to Woodford County, Illinois, traveling for six weeks in a covered wagon. They settled on Grand Prairie, where Roanoke now stands. On June 27, 1852, they united with the Church of the Brethren. Six others were baptized at the same time, and this small group was the nucleus of the church in Woodford County. The same year, on October 23, Brother Gish was elected to JAMES R. GISH AND WIFE the ministry, and soon became a speaker of marked ability. In 1863 he was ordained to the eldership. He held many successful evangelistic meetings. Being a good financier, he invested his money carefully and became a man of considerable wealth. At his death, he left all of his property to his wife without any instructions; she in turn gave a gift then estimated at nearly fifty thousand dollars to the General Mission Board, establishing what is known as the Gish Fund. He passed away at his home at Stuttgart, Ark- ansas, April 30, 1896.
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JAMES W. GISH, son of William A. and Sarah E. Statler Gish, both of Roanoke County, Virginia, was born in Woodford County, Illinois, July 2, 1860. He married Mary L. Reiff of Roanoke, Illinois, on September 11, 1884. He was baptized by Rufus R. Gish in October 1878. Two years were spent in Mount Morris College. He was elected a minister in the Panther Creek church in 1880 and ordained an elder in the South Beatrice church, Nebraska, in 1897. There he served as elder for thirty years and in the pas- toral ministry from 1884 to 1924, preaching also at the Falls City and Auburn churches for several years. In May 1936 he moved to Shelby County, Missouri, where he served as pastor and elder. He died March 24, 1949.
NOAH GREENAWALT lived the larger part of his life in the Cerro Gordo congregation, of which he was a mem- ber. He was born in 1828. Twice married, he was the father of four sons and three daughters, all of whom died in infancy or early childhood. Brother Greena- walt was success- ful in accumulat- ing valuable property and, be- ing loyal to the church, he made the Southern Dis- NOAH GREENAWALT AND WIFE trict of Illinois the beneficiary of a very good eigh- ty-acre farm which is designated as God's Acres. There was also village property included in his gift. He died in 1889.
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C. A. GRUBER was born in Lancaster County, Pennsyl- vania, October 1, 1865, the son of Joseph and Susan Aldinger Gruber. On November 15, 1888, he married Lizzie B. Hol- linger of Astoria, Illinois; to them were born five daughters. He was baptized by Elder John Harshbarger, Sr., in 1896. A farmer by vocation, he is also a churchman: elected to the office of deacon in 1897; elected to the ministry in 1901; ordained to the eldership in 1913. His work has been in the local churches in which he has resided-Martins Creek and Astoria. He died October 18, 1948.
HIRAM H. GRUBER was born in Dauphin County, Penn- sylvania, December 12, 1871, the son of Jacob and Fannie B. Hollinger Gruber. On August 12, 1894, he married Annie M. Miller of Auburn, Illi- nois. Five daughters were born to them. Most of his active years were spent in farming. He was baptized by John C. Demy on August 10, 1894. He was called to the office of deacon on April 26, 1895, in the As- HIRAM H. GRUBER AND WIFE toria church, which has been his continuous home. For fourteen years he served on the district mission board.
M. L. HAHN was born at Gettysburg, Ohio. His father was Jonathan Hahn and his stepmother was Sarah Evirts Hahn. He married Mary Crowel on November 4, 1869; they
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had one son and five daughters. On May 2, 1896, he married Sarah Haskins; to them was born one son. His trade was that of carpenter. He united with the Church of the Breth- ren on September 15, 1875; was elected a deacon, November 20, 1882; was called to the ministry, November 8, 1883; was ordained to the eldership in November 1903. He moved from Jay County, Indiana, to Bond County, Illinois, in Janu- ary 1901. For a number of years he was pastor in various churches and missions in Southern Illinois, among them Hurricane Creek, Canton and Camp Creek. He held a num- ber of evangelistic meetings. Later he moved to Minnesota, where he died on March 6, 1923.
O. P. HAINES, the second son of Joseph and Mary Pfeifer Haines, was born near Dayton, Ohio, April 27, 1878. He was baptized in 1904. On February 25, 1905, he married Bertha E. Minnich; two children were born to them. He spent some time at Ohio Northern and Miami universities. For ten years he taught school. The West Dayton church, Ohio, elected him to the ministry on March 10, 1910; he was ordained at Rockford, Illinois, on September 11, 1913, and for two years was pastor there. After two years in Bethany Biblical Seminary he was pastor at Cerro Gordo, Illinois, for two years, and later at Kent, Ohio. As a success- ful evangelist he preached over twenty-five hundred ser- mons and received nearly one thousand into the membership of the church by baptism. He died at Lima, Ohio, July 5, 1925.
EVA ETHYL HAMERSON, daughter of William and Clarin- da J. Southard Butterfield, was born in Cowley County, Kansas, January 16, 1884. She married John Hamerson on November 3, 1909; to them were born one son and one daughter. She was baptized by Mr. Hamerson, a Pres- byterian minister, in 1909, and later, in 1949, by Joseph E.
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Campbell, a minister of the Church of the Brethren. Trained as a graduate nurse she later taught in Oklahoma, nursed for nine years, and was a pastor's wife from 1909 to 1938. On March 3, 1944, she was licensed to the ministry by the Church of the Brethren, and for a short time served in the Martins Creek church in a ministerial capacity.
JOSEPH J. HAMM was born in Gage County, Nebraska, January 18, 1886, the son of Jacob and Catharine Troxel Hamm. He united with the church at Oakley, Illinois, on August 27, 1903. Mabel Frantz and he were married on July 14, 1914; they have three sons and two daughters. Two years were spent at Bridgewater College. He has farmed and done carpenter work in Illinois and Michigan. On July 1, 1913, he was elected to the ministry in the Oakley church. In 1914 he moved to Michigan; there he was ordained to the eldership and served the following churches: Sugar Ridge, at Custer, as minister and later as elder; Hart, as elder and minister; Long Lake, near Manistee, as elder and minister. He was a mem- ber of the district mission board. His present location is Centerville, Michigan.
ISAAC J. HARSHBARGER, son of Joseph W. and Catherine Flory Harshbarger, was born July 8, 1864. He was baptized by Elder J. H. Brubaker, Oc- tober 31, 1889. Martha R. Bru- baker became his wife on Feb- I. J. HARSHBARGER AND WIFE ruary 14, 1889. One son and three daughters were born to them. He was a farmer from
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1885 to 1925. Elected to the ministry in 1893, he was or- dained as an elder in 1902. His ministerial service is thus summarized: elder, West Otter Creek, 1904-1907; elder and pastor, Macoupin Creek, 1907-1911; elder, Macoupin Creek from 1913 until its disorganization; elder, Girard, 1913-1915 and 1933-1940. On December 13, 1939, the following resolu- tion was passed by the Girard church: "In appreciation of the work of Elder I. J. Harshbarger, we bestow upon him the honor of Elder Emeritus, during his stay in the Girard Church." He died at the Home at Girard on December 8, 1949.
JOHN H. HARSHBARGER was born at Westphalia, Kansas, on August 27, 1890, the son of John William and Hester A. Nance Harshbarger. He was married to Lillian E. Walker of Liberty, Illinois, December 20, 1911. Two sons and two daughters were born to them. He has devoted many years to farming at Liberty and Virden, Illinois. He was bap- tized by J. W. Harshbarger in September 1911 and was chosen deacon at Liberty in 1911. From 1942 to 1945 he was the superintendent of the Home at Girard; he lives at Virden, Illinois.
JOHN HARSHBARGER, SR., the son of John J. and Marga- ret Early Harshbarger, was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, on June 26, 1839. On September 26, 1860, he mar- ried Margaret Ann Long; five sons and three daughters came into their home. They moved to Macoupin County, Illinois, in 1880; to Butler County, Kansas, in 1885; and then to Wayne County, Illinois, in 1888. He is listed as a minister of the Martins Creek church in Wayne County, Illinois, at the time of its organization in 1888. There he served in the free ministry until the end of his life. He was the elder of a number of congregations in the district, did much com- mittee work, held many successful evangelistic meetings,
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and served on Standing Committee. He died in Wayne County on August 28, 1898.
JOHN WILLIAM HARSHBARGER, son of John and Mar- garet Long Harshbarger, was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, August 15, 1863. He and Hester Nance of Spencer- ville, Ohio, were married on December 24, 1882. To them were born three sons and three daughters. Uniting with the Church of the Brethren in the Martins Creek church, Illinois, he was elected to the deaconship in 1894, was called to the ministry in 1889, and was ordained to the eldership in 1902. His ministerial work was divided as follows: min- ister and elder, Martins Creek, Illinois, 1899-1909; pastor and elder, Liberty, Illinois, 1909-1913; pastor, Homestead, Mich- igan, 1913-1915; pastor and elder, Scottville, Michigan, 1915- 1917; Martins Creek, Illinois, 1917-1927; elder-in-charge of a number of different congregations; Standing Committeeman; evangelist in various churches. He died on November 30, 1931.
JOSEPH W. HARSHBARGER was the son of John and Cath- arine Flory Harshbarger; he was born in Rockingham County, Virginia, June 4, 1827. His marriage to Catharine Flory took place on January 25, 1849. They were the par- ents of ten children. He came to Macoupin County, Illi- nois, in 1870. A farmer in Virginia, he continued as one in Illinois. He was elected a deacon in Virginia in 1863, a minister in Illinois in 1871, and an ordained elder in the Pleasant Hill church in 1877. As an elder he served the West Otter Creek church, 1882-1883, and the Pleasant Hill church, 1882-1895. His death occurred at Girard on June 4, 1913.
DANIEL MAX HARTSOUGH, the son of George and Amelia Ikehorn Hartsough, was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, March 9, 1877. His first marriage was to Elizabeth Starkey
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of Glenford, Ohio, on February 10, 1901; his second to Mrs. Evaline M. Farebes of Thomasville, Ohio, on July 10, 1912; his third, to Mrs. Viola M. Myers of Cygnet, Ohio, on August 11, 1931. He is the father of one son and two daughters. He took a home study course from Bethany Biblical Seminary. He engaged in farming in Ohio, and was a blacksmith in Wayne County, Ohio, from 1912-1923. Baptized by Landon West on November 20, 1886, he was elected deacon in April 1906, called to the ministry in May 1923, and ordained to the eldership in May 1941. His pastoral services have been given at Woodland, Illinois, 1933-1935; Walnut Grove, Illi- nois, 1935-1937; Brethren, Michigan, 1937-1939; Paint Creek and Belleville, Kansas, 1939-1942; Root River, Minnesota, 1942-1943; Garber, Iowa, 1943-1945.
DURWARD HAYS was born in Law- rence County, Illinois, September 20, 1920; his parents were Martin and Ethel Whitson Hays. On July 28, 1941, he united with the Church of the Brethren, was baptized by Elder Dolar Ritchey. He is a farmer. Licensed to the ministry on April 3, 1946, he was installed on May 10, 1947. Since 1946 he has been pastor of the La Motte Prairie church, and of the Romine church since 1947.
DURWARD HAYS WILLIAM F. HAYNES was born near La Place, Illinois, June 28, 1880, the son of Henry Clay and Sarah Ann Binns Haynes, both of Pickaway County, Ohio. He was baptized at La Place in 1904. On December 24, 1905, he married Etta Wheeler of Cerro Gordo, Illinois. One winter was spent at Bethany Biblical Seminary. When called to the ministry in 1906 he was working in a store and post office at La Place.
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In 1907 he moved to MacDoel, California, and preached at various places. In 1909 he moved to Patterson, California, and helped open the work and organize the church. It was there that he was ordained to the eldership. In Febru- ary 1917 he came to the Virden church as pastor and served there until his death on June 2, 1920.
B. FRANKLIN HECKMAN was born near Hammond, Illi- nois, September 22, 1882. He was the son of David and Eliza- beth Miller Heckman, who with their family moved into the Oakley congregation in 1891. He became a member of this congregation in October 1898. He attended Mount Morris College from 1901 to 1905, and in June 1905 was married to Minna Mote of Union City, Ohio. The two following years he was principal of the Cerro Gordo high school. The Cerro Gordo church called him to the ministry on December 31, 1905. In 1907 he entered Bethany Biblical Seminary; finished the B. F. HECKMAN four-year course; taught Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis for one year, and also did some graduate work at the University of Chicago. He had charge of rescue mission work in Chicago, and conducted a num- ber of Bible institutes in different states. In 1910 he was pastor and evangelist at the mission in Springfield, Illinois. In 1911 he, with his wife and two daughters, went to the China mission field and was stationed at Ping Ting Chou. After fifteen months he contracted smallpox and died on January 14, 1913, the first Brethren missionary to give up his life while in service on the China field.
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