a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in England, March 7, 1835. He was converted in Detroit, Mich., in 1858, and in the same year entered the Detroit Conference, in which he labored for eighteen years with general acceptability- and usefulness. He died April 18, 1876. Wherever Mr. Cordon was known, he was regarded as a devout, earnest, and successful minister; especially in the Sunday-school was he greatly beloved. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1876, page 100.