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Hle read much, and having a remarkably retentive memory was ready and instructive in conversation on alnost any topic. There was a richly enter- taining spirit in his conversation. He loved to talk, but never talked non- sense ; he was fond of good stories, and had a very treasure of them. He wrote much, and left piles of manuscript. His piety was calm, steady, and deep.
He was very tenacious of his political opinions, and it has been affirmed that those who knew him well would hardly rec- ognize a portraiture of Laban Clark that did not mention the fact, that he was a thorough-going Democrat of the old school, admiring Andrew Jackson in respect to politics as he did John Wesley in respect to theology.
4 Minutes of Conferences, 1869, p. 97.
5 Hlist. M. E. Church, vol. iv, p. 70.
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His first wife, HARRIET, was the daughter of Anson Fairchild, of Westfield, Mass.6 She died February 8, 1836, aged fifty-three years.
SARAH (HANKS,) his second wife, was a resident of Hartford at the time of their marriage, April 17, 1837.7 She died No- vember 21, 1866, aged seventy-nine. In the announcement of her death it was said that she was " not a shouting, but a stead- fast Methodist." 8
Marianne, a daughter of Laban Clark, and wife of the Rev. Seneca Howland, died July 1, 1853. She was a true Christian and brilliant scholar.
" Rev. Oliver Sykes' manuscript autobiography.
" Notice in Christian Advocate and Journal.
8 The Christian Advocate.
XLV. Mitchell & Bull -
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HE REV. MITCHELL B. BULL was born in Waterford, Ireland, January 30, 1778.' He experienced relig- ion and joined the Methodists at the age of thir- teen years.2 A few months later, in 1793, he came to the city of New York. He was licensed to preach in 1802, and short- ly afterward entered the itinerant ministry. The following is the record of his
APPOINTMENTS: 1803, (Phila. Conf.,)3 Newburgh cir., N. Y., with Thos. Stratton; 1804, (New York Conf. by change of boundaries,) Saratoga cir, with John Finnegan; 1805; ordained deacon,-Montgomery cir., with Joseph Willis; 1806, Long Island cir., with James Coleman; 1807, ordained elder,- New Rochelle cir., with Billy Hibbard, Henry Redstone, and Ezekiel Canfield; 1808, Cambridge cir., with Lewis Pease; 1809, ditto, with W. Swayze and S. Sornborger; 1810, Saratoga cir., with John Finnegan; 1811-1852, local; 1824 supply, Brooklyn, Sands-street, W. Ross' unexpired term; 1853, (N. Y. East Conf.,) sup'y, Brooklyn, Sands-street, with H. J. Fox, 1854-1855, ditto, with I .. S. Weed; 1856-1857, ditto, with John Miley.
His private memoranda of the Newburgh, Saratoga, Mont- gomery, Long Island and New Rochelle circuits have been preserved. The author has not found among the pa- pers of any others of the early itinerants such evidences of a personal knowledge of the members on the circuits. He kept complete records of the leaders and their classes, plans of appointments, preaching places, baptisms, marriages, texts from which he preached in the several appointments, etc. They are models of neatness, and besides the light they throw upon the character of the preacher and his work, they are exceedingly valuable contributions to the history of the church in the large number of localities over which his min-
1 Dr.' Nathan Bangs in the Christian Advocate, 1857.
2 Conference Minutes, 1858, p. 99.
3 That Conference then comprised much of New York state, as well as New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
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istry extended. He was accustomed to preach thirty or forty sermons in four weeks. His retirement, after an active ministry of eight years, was on account of failing health. He was en- gaged in the dry goods business in New York city about seven years ; thence he removed to a farm in the State of New Jersey, and finally took up his permanent residence in Brooklyn. He was prospered in his secular enterprises, and his generosity fully equaled his ability. He devoted one fifth of his income regu- larly to benevolent objects, and bequeathed $9,000 to religious institutions.
His conference memorial states that he was "active and use- ful in the church, a man of sterling integrity, and an able and . earnest preacher."4 His record of sermons from 1837 to 1849 indicates that he often preached in nearly every Methodist church in New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City, etc.
In social intercourse, as Dr. Bangs testified, he was " calm, courteous, kind." Judge Dikeman remarked to the author that Mr. Bull shared with many others in the expectation of the coming of the Lord in 1843. Hearing J. B. Matthias remark that he would like to live till Christ should come, Mr. Bull re- plied : " I don't expect to die; when Christ comes there will be no more dying."
The Rev. John Rossell, of Brooklyn, assures the author that no likeness of Mr. Bull was ever taken, Isaiah Scudder, of Huntington, L. I., who knew him well in 1806, describes him as tall of stature, with a pitted face and a marked Irish brogue. One eye had been put out. He was thrice married, but had no children.
He departed this life August 6, 1857, in the eightieth year of his age." " During his last severe illness his mind was clear, calm, and cheerful," and "his last moments were gilded by the bright beams of the Sun of Righteousness. A head-stone in the Cypress Hills cemetery, lot No. 21, Moliere Path, designates the place of his burial.
A manuscript book, containing fifty-one admirable sketches of his sermons, and the valuable records mentioned above, fell into the hands of the Rev. Charles Stearns, and were presented by him to the New York East Conference Historical Society.
4 Conference Minutes, 1858, p. 99.
5 " In memoriam " record-Minutes of the New York East Conference.
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ANN, his first wife, was a daughter of Henry Eames, a Meth- odist, (not the preacher,) who came hither from Ireland. She was converted in 1796, in the eighteenth year of her age, through the labors of Wilson Lee, and she at once gave her name to the church. Her marriage to Mr. Bull took place in May, 1799, and after fifty-three years the union was dissolved by her death, on the 18th of October, 1852, in the seventy-fifth year of her age. A head-stone marks her grave by the side of her hus- band's. Her health was never firm, but she was industrious and frugal, and aided her husband while in business to acquire a competence. Her modesty of deportment, her plainness and neatness of apparel, her kindness, affection, and piety, were re- membered by her survivors. A little before her death she exclaimed, "Glory to God in the highest ! " 6
His second wife, ELIZA, resided in her youth at Dix Hills, L. I., and was converted in 1821, at a camp-meeting at Mos- quito Cove, L. I. Her parents were named Goodwin, and the gospel was preached in her home. In 1830 she was married to Joseph Allen, and after being a widow two years, she accept- ed the hand of Mr. Bull, in 1854. It was her daily custom to read her Bible on her knees. She died October 12, 1856, aged fifty-seven years.
Mr. Bull was married to his third wife, ANN (SMITH,) of Brooklyn, February 16, 1857, when he was past seventy-nine years of age. His death occurred that same year, and she died in peace nine years later, August 1, 1866, aged sixty-four. Her father was a soldier of the Revolution. She is buried in the same grave with the first wife of Mr. Bull, but her name is not on the head-stone.
6 Dr. Nathan Bangs, in The Christian Advocate.
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XLVI. Sho. Burch
FTER the Brooklyn Methodists had buried their be- loved Ross, the place was supplied by a local el- der until the ensuing session of the New York Conference, when the REV. THOMAS BURCH, one of the most popular ministers of the denomination, was transferred from the Philadelphia Conference, and appointed to this charge.
Hle was born in Tyrone County, Ireland, August 30, 1778. His parents were people of culture, and highly respected members of the Church of England; but after his conversion, his mother, brother, and sister united with him in establish- ing a Methodist class in the place where they resided. His father never became a Methodist, having died previous to the formation of the society.
The chief agent in his awakening and conversion, while yet a young man, was Gideon Onseley, the celebrated Irish evangelist.
In (Soo,' Thomas arrived in the United States with his mo- ther, his sister, and his younger brother, Robert," and was soon appointed leader of a class in the vicinity of Boehm's chapel, in Lancaster County, Pa. He was encouraged by the Rev. Heury Boehm to enter the ministry, and accepted a license to preach. The following is his
CONFERENCE RECORD: 1805, (Phila. Conf.,) Milford . cir., Del., with J. Aydelott; 1806, St. Martin's cir., Md., with J. Wiltbank; 1807, or- dained deacon by Bp. Asbury, -Dauphin cir., Pa., with W. Hoyer and G. Harmon; ISOS, ditto, with John Miller ;. 1809, Lancaster cir., Pa., with James Smith; 1810, Philadelphia, with T. F. Sargent, T. Bishop, T. Budd and T. Everard; ISTI, Phila., St. George's, with S. G. Roszell; 1812-1814, (Genesce
' The memoir in the "Minutes" says 1803, but ISoo is the date named in the Rev. Henry Boehim'ssketch in Stevens' Hist. M. E, Church, vol. iii, p. 434. He is a trustworthy authority, and became one of the earliest and most intimate friends of Mr. Burch after he reached these shores.
" This brother became a distinguished preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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conf., ) Montreal, Canada-appointed the first year to Quebec, but stopped at Montreal ; 1815, (Balt. Conf.,) Baltimore city, with A. Griffith ; 1816, George- town, D. C., with Wm. Ryland ; 1817, Washington, Foundry church ; 1818, Georgetown ; 1819, Baltimore city, with M. Force and John Bear ; 1820, ditto, with. R. Tydings ; 1821-1822, (Phila. Conf.,) Phildelphia, Union ch. ; 1823, Phila., St. George's, with Win. Thacher and D. Parish ; 1824, ditto, with James Smith and II. G. King; 1825, (New York Conf., ) Brooklyn ; 1826, ditto, with S. L. Stillman ; 1827, New York, with N. White, R. Seney, J. J. Matthias, N. Levings, and J. Field ; 1828, ditto, with C. W. Car- penter, Jesse Hunt, J. J. Matthias, N. Levings, and Geo. Coles ; 1829-1830, Middletown, Conn. ; 1831, Albany, Garrettson station ; 1832, (Troy Conf.,) ditto ; 1833, (New York Conf.,) Brooklyn and New Utrecht, with J. Ken- . naday and J. Luckey ; 1834, Brooklyn, same colleagues; 1835, sup'y with- out app't ; 1836-1837, sup'y, Kingsbridge, (Yonkers,) with E. Oldrin and J. D. Bangs ; 1838, sup'y, ditto, with John Davies and S. C. Perry ; 1839, sup'y, ditto, with II. Hatfield and S. C. Perry ; 1840, Yonkers, with D. I. Wright ; 1841, New York, Vestry-street ; 1842-1843, Rhinebeck ; 1844-1845, sup'y, Yonkers, with J. C. Green ; 1846-1847, sup'y, ditto, with C. C. Keys ; 1848, sup'y, ditto, with S. C. Perry ; 1849, sup'y without app't.
His career is remarkable for the many conferences to which he belonged. He was transferred four times, and fell into the Troy Conference when it was formed by the division of the old New York Conference. One of the chroniclers of Canada Methodism says :
Thomas Burch holds the distinction of having entered Canada just as the war trouble was beginning, and remaining at his post till it had passed away.3
Stevens states that Burch made his way to Quebec in 1812, when Luckey and Bangs failed to reach their appointments on account of the war .* If he reached that city, it was not to re- main ; for, as Carroll still further says,
Thomas Burch was designated to Quebec, but Bangs not going to Mon- treal, he made that city his head-quarters. It was no small boon to the Meth- odists in Montreal to obtain a man of such sterling piety and mature experi- ence, and a preacher of such respectable talents, and to enjoy his labors for three full years.
One preacher only besides himself reached his appointment on British soil. That was Robert Hibbard, who was drowned shortly after, while attempting to cross the St. Lawrence River. Mr. Burch's prolonged stay in Canada seems to have had epis- copal sanction, because he was the most suitable man for the work there. The Rev. T. H. Burch writes :
3 Carroll-Case and his Contemporaries, vol. i, p. 281.
4 See Hist. M. E. Church, vol. iv, p. 275.
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Being then an unnaturalized citizen, and a subject of Great Britain, it was thought expedient, during the war, for him rather than an American citizen to labor there. He did not locate.5
He was one of the ninety chosen men of American Method- ism who composed the first delegated General Conference in 1812. Twice subsequently a like honor was conferred upon him ; namely, in 1820 and 1828.
He was married, May 25, 1816, to Miss Mary Smith, of Phil- adelphia. Ill-health compelled him to retire partially or wholly from active ministerial service for a number of years. After the death of his wife, in 1844, he resided in Yonkers, N. Y., till near the close of his life. His last sermon, ten days before his death, was delivered with great power from Paul's words con- cerning " the sufferings of this present time," and "the glory that shall be revealed in us." He died suddenly and alone, of heart disease, at the house of his son, Thomas H. Burch, in Nassau-street, Brooklyn, August 22, 1849, aged nearly seventy- one years, in the fifty-fifth year of his ministry. He was buried from the Sands-street church, the presiding elder, Laban Clark,. officiating, assisted by other ministers. A monument in Greenwood marks the place of his rest.
Samuel Luckey writes admiringly of his friend, Thomas Burch, as " an amiable, sweet-tempered man," " of strong and heavenly aspirations," and of a "clear and well-disciplined mind." He says :
The most remarkable attribute of his preaching, and, indeed, of his char- acter generally, was a charming simplicity. He was eminently fitted to dis- charge the duties of pastor, though I do not think he ever took a very active part in the general councils of the church.
Ile was a man of about medium size, was well-proportioned, and had agreeable and cultivated manners. The church showed in what estimate she held him, by keeping him always in her most important fields of labor, 6
Dr. Bangs, in Sprague's Annals, says of Thomas Burch, that " he had a sharp, bright eye, that seemed to penetrate whatever it fastened upon ; " that although "his mind was rather solid than brilliant," he was an animated preacher. "His voice," he says, "was musical, and his delivery fluent and graceful ; his judgment was much confided in, and the influence of his whole character was extensively and powerfully felt in the denomination."
5 Letter to the author. " Sprague's Annals.
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MARY, his wife, is said to have been " emphatically what a minister's wife should be." Having served the Lord faithfully thirty-eight years, she died at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. J. M. Van Cott, in Brooklyn, N. Y., April 24, 1844, in the fifty-third year of her age. Death came unexpectedly, but she was ready. Calling her children around her bed she com- mended them to God, and exhorted them to faithfulness; and, "with the word 'glory' faintly falling from her lips, slept in Jesus."1 Her grave is beside that of her husband.
Children of Thomas and Mary Burch : Mary Eleanor, of Sands-street church, deceased ; " Sophia Gough, died in infancy ; Thomas H., of the New York East Conference ; " Jane Sophia ; 10 Anne Elisabeth, deceased ; Robert Asbury.
7 Rev. I. M. Vincent in The Christian Advocate.
8 See Van Cott, Book III, Record of Members.
9 See Sketch, in Book III.
10 Married J. M. Van Cott ; see Book III.
XLVII.
HE REV. STEPHEN LEWIS STILLMAN was born in Bur. lington, Conn., April 15, 1795. "His parents were Seventh Day Baptists; their seven children were piously trained, and all professed religion, and finally united with different denominations."' Stephen began his Chris- tian life at the age of twelve, and six years later, in the year 1813, united with the Baptist Church. Some months later at a camp-meeting he obtained a deeper and richer experience in divine things, and from that time he was drawn toward the Methodist Episcopal Church, with which he united in Schenectady, N. Y., in 1817, under the ministry of Laban Clark. He was then twenty-two years of age, and had been married one year. He was licensed to preach in 1822.
CONFERENCE RECORD: 1823, (New York Conf.,) Burlington cir., Conn., with II. Hatfield; 1824, Winsted cir., with Eli Barnett; 1825, Wethers- field cir., with J. Z. Nichols; 1826, ordained deacon-Brooklyn, with Thom- as Burch; 1827, ditto, with S. Luckey; 1828, ordained elder-Kingston cir., with Jos. D. Marshall; 1829, ditto, with E. Andrews and HI. Wing, 1830-1831, Newburgh, N. Y .; 1832, Iludson and Print Works, with R. Little; 1833, dit- to, with II. Humphreys; 1834, Hillsdale cir., with D. B. Ostrander, J. Car. ley, and William Lull; 1835, Hillsdale, no colleague named, 1836-1837, Pough- keepsie;, 1838-1839, New York city, Eighty-eighth-street, 1840, New Haven, Conn .; 1841-1842, (Troy Conference,) Albany, Garrettson Station; 1843. Al- bany, West Station; 1844-1845, Troy, Second-street, (now Trinity;) 1846-1847,
1 Mrs. Lucretia M. Stillman-letter to the author.
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Ballston Spa. ; 1848-1849, Greenwich ; 1850-1851, Waterford ; 1852-1853, Shelburne, Vt. ; 2 1854, without appointment on account of failing health ; 1855, chaplain of the Albany Bethel for Sailors and Boatmen ; 1856-1857, Bethlehem ; 1858-1859, Castleton, Vt. ; 1860-1861, Salem, N. Y. ; 1862, Clarksville and New Salem ; 1863, Albany, Free' Central ; 1864, Hageman's Mills ; 1865, sup'y, without appointment ; 1866-1868, sup'y, Albany, Wash- ington av., (now Trinity.)
It will be observed that he was first appointed to a charge including the neighborhood in which he was reared-an excel- lent comment upon the character and reputation of the young man. Burlington circuit then embraced twenty-eight different appointments, scattered over fifteen different townships. It is stated in his memoir that
In each of these places he and his colleague were expected to preach once each in every four weeks, making an average of one sermon a day, and three on Sundays. 3
His labors were not diminished on his subsequent appoint- ments, the first of which embraced eighteen, and the second twenty-three, preaching places. Some account of his work in Brooklyn, in organizing the young men into a missionary so- ciety, has already been given on page 24 of this volume. The Christian Advocate, in 1837, reported a great revival under his labors in Poughkeepsie. His most remarkable success was in Garrettson station, Albany, where, during one series of meet- ings, about five hundred persons were added to the church. One of his parishioners writes :
He entered upon his ministry with zeal and much religious fervor, and, as the result of his labors, old Garrettson station had one of the most sweeping revivals ever known in Albany in any one church. He became so worn down by midwinter that the official board secured the services of the Rev. Thomas Armitage to assist in continuing the meetings until spring. Many yet live who remember those stirring times, and the stately form and magnetic influ- ence of the pastor, as he stood in that old tabernacle, with a great sea of faces before liim, an audience of from 1,500 to 1,800 souls ; and many have gone up with their beloved pastor to swell the throng of those who sing the song of Moses and the Lamb.4
Mr. Stillman departed this life on the 2d of April, 1869, al- most seventy-four years of age. "Amid the closing scenes of his life he said to a committee of ministers in Albany : " Tell my
2 Not Connecticut, as stated in his memoir in Conference Minutes.
3 Minutes of Conferences, 1869, p. 116.
4 William Dalton, of old Garrettson station, Albany.
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brethren that I die in the full faith of the Gospel I have preached." Dr. Jesse T. Peck and other ministers addressed a large audience at his funeral in the Hudson-street church, Albany. His friends laid him to rest in the beautiful cemetery of Schaghticoke, Rensselaer county, N. Y., in a lot belonging to his father-in-law, Mr. Daniel Miller. A plain but neat Gothic stone marks his grave.
His brethren of the Troy Conference speak of him in his memoir as "a diligent and varied reader," perhaps all the more studious because of his consciousness " of the lack of early mental discipline, and of an educational foundation for schol- arly attainment." They ascribe to him " a quickness of per- ception, a nicety of taste, an adaptation to the popular mind, a gentlemanly bearing, rare conversational powers, and a noble bodily presence." He was tall and erect at the age of seventy- three, "and his finely molded head, covered with a silvered crown of glory, made him conspicuous in any assembly."
MISS SARAH SPERRY was born in Connecticut, February 27, 1791, and was married to S. L. Stillman, August 12, 1816. One who was personally acquainted with her writes :
I remember her as a cultured Christian lady, dignified, courteous, kind, gentle, and universally beloved ; a model wife and mother, domestic in her habits, and fond of her home. When Mr. Stillman was stationed in Troy she went on a visit to Westerly, R. I., and died while there, [July 10, 1846,] and was buried in the beautiful cemetery about half-way between Westerly and Watch Hill. A modest monument marks her grave.5
Mr. Stillman was married in 1848 to MRS. LUCRETIA MIL- LER EGGLESTON, who now resides in Valley Falls, N. Y.
Children of Stephen L. and Sarah Stillman : Harlow Frank- lin, of Chicago, Ill .; William, who died of consumption, in Albany, N. Y., the day he was twenty-two years of age, and was buried on the day he was to have graduated from a med- ical college in the city of New York ; George Henry, of Ports- mouth, Ohio; Stephen Lewis, Jr., of Greenwich, N. Y., by profession a dentist. William Olin, the only offspring by the second marriage, was graduated from the Albany Medical Col- lege in 1871, was house physician five years at Dr. Strong's, in Saratoga Springs, and has since traveled and studied in Europe.
5 Mrs. Lucretia M. Stillman's letter.
Same Sucky REV. SAMUEL LUCKEY, D. D.
XLVIII.
SAMUEL LUCKEY.
HE name of the REV. SAMUEL LUCKEY, D. D. is as ointment poured forth. His memory is fondly cherished by the old Brooklyn Methodists, and hosts of Wesley's followers throughout this country and Canada unite in the same admiring estimate of his character and his life.
He was born in Rensselaerville, N. Y., April 4, 1791. From certain statements of his we gather that he experienced a joyful hope in Christ before he was fifteen years of age.' With "a fair education, and a sound Christian experience," he began before he was twenty to travel a circuit under the direction of the presiding elder. Fifty-nine years of faith- ful service are included in the following
MINISTERIAL RECORD: 1810, supply, Montgomery cir., N. Y., in place of Datus Ensign or C. II. Gridley;2 1811, (New York Conf.,) Ottowa cir., Lower Canada; 1812, (Genesee Conf.,) assigned to St. Francis River, Canada, with J. F. Chamberlin, but unable to reach his appointment; 1813, (New York Conf., ) Dutchess cir., with W. Anson and Coles Carpenter; 1814, ordained deacon,-Saratoga cir., with Andrew M'Caine; 1815, Montgomery cir., with G. Pierce; 1816, ordained elder,-Pittstown, N. Y .; 1817, Troy; 1818, Troy and Lansingburgh, with E. Bancroft; 1819, Rhinebeck cir., with S. Howe; 1820-1821, Schenectady; 1822-1823, New Haven, Conn .; 1824- 1826, presiding elder New Haven Dist .; 1827, Brooklyn, with S. L. Stillman; 1828, ditto, with S. Landon; 1829, New York, with Coles Carpenter, Jesse Hunt, G. Coles and S. D. Ferguson; 1830, ditto, with S. Merwin, L. Pease, S. Martindale, B. Goodsell and S. D. Ferguson; 1831, Albany, South Station; 1832-1835, (Genesee Conf.,) Principal of Genesee Wesleyan Seminary at Li- ma :- one year he had leave of absence from the seminary, and took the presid- ing eldership of the Rochester District on account of his health; 1836-1839, (New York Conf.,) Editor-in-chief of the Christian Advocate, Quarterly Review
$ 1 Sce his article entitled 'Methodism Sixty-two Years Ago," in the Christian Advocate, January 17, 1867.
2 Stevens,-IIist. M. E. Church, vol. iv, p. 259. Ensign was reported at the ensuing conference as having located.
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and other publications of the Book Concern ; 1840, presiding elder, New York Dist. ; 1841, New York, Duane-street ; 1842, (Genesee Conf.,) Roches- ter, St. John's ; 1843, Rochester, First ch. ; 1844, presiding elder, Niagara Dist. ; 1845, Lockport, North ch. ; 1846-1847, presiding elder, East Roches- ter Dist. ; 1848-1849, (East Genesee Conf.,) presiding elder, Rochester Dist .; 1850, Penfield ; 1851, Rochester, Second ch. ; 1852, sup'y, Rochester, Third ch., with S. L. Congdon ; 1853, sup'y, Rochester, North-st., with A. Wright ; 1854, tract agent ; 1855, (Genesee Conf.,) Castile ; 1856, sup'd ; 1857, Gaines- ville, with J. M. Simpkins ; 1858, Scottsville ; 1859, (East Genesee Conf.,) Rochester, Cornhill ch. ; 1860, Rochester, North-st. ; 1861-1868, chaplain to the Monroe county penitentiary, the almshouse in Rochester, and the insane asylum ; 1869, sup'd.
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