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Care, Thomas, a.m.

a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Harrisburg, Pa., July 10, 1832. — He was converted in 1857, while a student at Dickinson College, and in 1859 entered the East Baltimore Conference. In 1862-63 he. was professor of natural science in Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport. He labored in the ministry as health permitted, with great zeal and fidelity, until his death, March 18, 1864. As a pastor, Mr. Care was solicitous and indefatigable; as a preacher, impressive, substantial, argumentative; as a friend, modest, frank, cheerful; as a Christian, exemplary. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1865, p. 12.