MORGAN'S HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE Page 38

CHAPTER I. 

JOSEPH H. MORGAN

has married to date twenty couples; baptized, children and adults, fifty; received in church membership, including probationers, two hundred and fifty, and attended the General Conference of 1880 as a delegate from the New Jersey Conference.

REV. B. F. MARTIN

Was born in Union Court House, S. C., in 1854 He joined the M. E. Church in 1868. In 1868 he went to Chester, S. C., to school. Afterwards he apprenticed himself to learn the trade of an artist, studied theology and was licensed an exhorter and local preacher by Rev. George Dardis, in Bethel A. M. E. Church, Columbia, S. C. He did not know one letter from another until 1866. He entered the ministry in Georgetown, S. C., in February, 1878. He has held the following appointments: Chester Mission, S. C.; Double Spring Mission, S. C.; Metropolitan Church, D. C.; Morris Brown Mission, Pa.; Mt. Calvery, Oxford, Pa.; and Long Branch, N. J.

REV. WILLIAM H. MERRILL

Was born April 9, 1859, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was converted at the age of twelve years, but did not join the church until seventeen years old, joining Crucifixion P. E. Church, Philadelphia. He joined the A. M. E. Church on Fleet street, Brooklyn, L. I., by letter, in 1879, and was licensed to preach in May, 1881. Ordained Deacon in New York Conference in 1884, by Bishop R. H. Cain, and ordained Elder at Trenton in 1887 by Bishop A. W. Wayman.

REV. G. A. MILLS

Was born in Hantondon, L. I., Suffolk Co., N. Y., December 10, 1813. His grandmother and father were both slaves to Wickim Mills, of Millspond. His mother was sold, with four sons and three daughters, to Daniel Youngs, of Chester Bay, about 1790. His father was a slave to Youngs until 1815, his

Rev. George A. Mills.

Rev. Alexander H. Newton.

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