MORGAN'S HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE Page 12
elated with the prospects of being a business man, he stopped at several hydrants and drank freely, and being somewhat overcome lost his findings. He arrived home much depressed at the sudden termination of his business operations. He concluded to follow the sea and ran from Boston to Liverpool and London, then around the Horn, trading in Calcutta and China, etc. Was converted in 1867, under the administration of Rev. Theodore Gould. Was admitted in the ministerial ranks in 1874, New Jersey Conference. Ordained Deacon in April, 1875, by Bishop James A. Shorter. Ordained Elder April, 1879, by Bishop D. A. Payne. At present he is conference book steward.
Was born July 4th, 1838, in Chester county, Pa. Experienced a change of heart in Meeting Street A. M. E. Church, Providence, R. I., in 1855; was licensed to exhort March 13, 1869, in the Fourth Quarterly Conference of the Penningtonville Circuit of the A. M. E. Church, Penningtonville, Pa., Rev. T. A. Cuff then Presiding Elder. He was licensed to preach February 17, 1874, in the Macedonia A. M. E. Church, Camden, N. J., Rev. Frisby J. Cooper, then Elder; joined the Itineracy in 1874, under Bishop J. A. Shorter, at Mt. Moriah A. M. E. Church, Mt. Holly, N. J.; was ordained Deacon in 1881, April 27, in Mt. Pisgah A. M. E. Church, Princeton, N. J.
Was born in North Carolina - does not remember the year. He was sold at nine years of age and taken to Florida, where he remained until 1862, when he ran away with the Union Army and staid with them three years. In 1865 he came North and went to work on a farm in 1868, then taking to himself a wife. He was converted when quite a youth and joined the M. E. Church South. He joined the Bethel A. M. E. Church at Patterson in 1866, under Rev. Wilson Peterson, and was licensed to exhort by Rev. John H. Jones in 1868 and was licensed to preach by Rev. Robert F. Wayman. In 1875 he was taken up by Elder
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