MORGAN'S HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE Page 9
Was born on the ninth day of August, in Isle of Wight county, Va. At the age of fourteen his father put him at the carpenter's trade, which he served for five years. In the year 1873 he went into the State of Louisiana, in which State, through the influence of the preached Gospel, he felt the keen arrows of conviction. On the fifth day of August, 1874, at about twelve o'clock, he experienced a radical change of heart. In the year 1875, after having returned to Virginia, he united with the African Methodist Episcopal Church, in Suffolk, Va., in which church he was steward and class leader. He was examined and licensed to preach by the Rev. Wm. B. Derrick, who was then acting as Presiding Elder. In 1878 he entered the annual conference of the A. M. E. Church, at Farmville, Va., which was presided over by Bishop J. M. Brown. By him he was assigned to a charge. In 1880 he was ordained Deacon by Bishop J. M. Brown. In 1881 he was ordained Elder by Bishop D. A. Payne. He has held three appointments, two in Virginia and one in New Jersey.
He was sent to a public school by his father two weeks, which is the only primary schooling he ever received. But by close application, he sustained an examination as public school teacher, in orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, and
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