a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Delaware County, Pa., Jan. 23, 1822. He was brought to Christ in his fourteenth year through the instruction and example of his pious mother.- In his seventeenth year he received license to preach; and in his twenty- first. was admitted into the Philadelphia Conference. His sentiments and sympathies led him to the Church South in 1854, and he joined the Virginia Conference, wherein he continued until his decease, in January, 1862.' See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church, South, 1862, p. 389.