a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Carlton, N.Y., April 15, 1828. He was converted at fourteen years of age; studied at Adrian, Michigan; entered the Rock River Conference in 1856, in which, and in the Georgia Conference (1868), he served very efficiently as preacher, presiding elder, and editor (of the Methodist Advocate, at Atlanta), until his sudden death, October 16, 1883. He was a member of the General Conference in 1868 and thereafter. He published a volume on Sunday-schools, and another in defence of missions in the South (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1876). See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1883, page 314; Simpson, Cyclop. of Methodism, s.v.