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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

WILLIS NAZERY,

did for several years. He was converted in New York, and joined old Bethel Church in that city. He was admitted in the New York Conference in 1840, and was transferred to the Baltimore Conference and appointed to the Lewiston Circuit, Pa. He remained in the Baltimore Conference until 1842, when he was transferred to the Philadelphia Conference, and remained pastor of some of the most important charges. In 1852 he was elected Bishop, and soon afterwards took up his residence in Canada. When the British M. E. Church of Canada was organized he was elected their Bishop. He continued to travel extensively until the autumn of 1875, when he finished his course in Nova Scotia and was brought home to Chatham, and buried from the church in that city.

REV. DANIEL A. PAYNE, D. D., LL. D.,

SIXTH BISHOP OF THE A. M. E. CHURCH,

Was born in Charleston, South Carolina, February 24, 1811. At the age of fifteen he entered the M. E. Church, under Elder James O. Andrew, who was preacher in charge of the Methodist churches of Charleston, S. C., but was not converted until three years afterwards. Through that intolerant spirit of slavery he was forced out of his native city in 1835, with a determination never to set foot in it again until slavery was destroyed, which promise he faithfully kept. For several years he taught school in Philadelphia, Pa. He entered the Lutheran Theological Seminary, at Gettyburg, Pa., intending to take a full course of three years, but his eyesight failed him. He entered the ministry in 1837, and was ordained an elder by them in 1838. He entered the Philadelphia Conference as a local preacher in 1842, and was admitted as a traveling preacher in the Philadelphia Conference in 1843, and was stationed by Bishop Morris Brown at Israel Bethel Church, Washington, D. C., where he remained five years, and afterwards served Ebenezer Church, Baltimore, Md., and was elected Bishop at the general conference, sitting in New York City, in May, 1852.

Rt. Rev. D. A. Payne,

Sixth Bishop A. M. E. Church.

Rt. Rev. A. W. Wayman,

Seventh Bishop A. M. E. Church.

Rt. Rev. J. P. Campbell,

Eighth Bishop A. M. E. Church.

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