MORGAN'S HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE Page 10

CHAPTER I. 

REV. J. C. AYLOR

United States history. He taught three years prior to entering the ministry, and two years afterward. During the five years that he taught he studied theology. In 1880 he read Latin and Greek privately, under the Rev. Mr. Burn, an English theologian. Consequently, the two weeks schooling and the one year's private instruction in Latin and Greek is all the educational training he had received. But by much prayer and close application, when he took charge of the New Brunswick station, he was able to comply with the rules of admission to the academy and is able to read Greek, Hebrew and other branches of the curriculum successfully. He is the only colored man in the institution, being made to forget that he is a negro, as there is no sign of prejudice manifested.

J. H. ACCOOE.

J. H. Accooe was born in Philadelphia, Pa. He was taken up in the interval of Conference by Bishop J. M. Brown, November 18th, 1876; was sent to Winchester Circuit, which was under the jurisdiction of the Virginia annual conference; has served Winchester Circuit; Farmville Station, Va.; Columbia, Pa.; was ordained Deacon at Winchester, Va., and Elder at Portsmouth, Va., in 1880. Both ordinations by Bishop J. M. Brown.

DAVID S. BAYARD

Was born February 28, 1853, Near Odessa, Delaware, New Castle county. He is the son of Samuel and Susan Bayard. There were eleven children in the family, ten boys and one girl. His parents belong to the Asbury M. E. Church, but both died while he was quite young. In 1874 he went to Camden, N. J., and settled, and was converted in Macedonia A. M. E. Church under the administration of Rev. F. J. Cooper, February 22, 1877, and joined the above church same year, Rev. M. F. Sluby, pastor in charge. April 5, 1881, he was licensed to exhort, under Rev. J. W. Cooper. He was licensed to preach in 1884 by P. E., S. B. Williams, and was received into the itinerant service of the New Jersey Conference in April, 1886, at Camden, N. J.

Rev. David Bayard.

Rev. J. Height Bean.

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