a Methodist Episcopal minister, was admitted into the Upper Iowa Conference in 1858, but became superamnnuated, on accotunt of ill-health, in 1863. At the close of one year, he made another year's effort to keep in the effective ranks, but bodily weak ness obliged him to resume a superannuated relation, which he sustained until his decease, Dec. 19, 1878. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1879, p. 50.