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Immediately after graduating, he went to Hartsville, Indiana, where he was elected
President of Hartsville College, which position he occupied for nine years, gradually and
thoroughly building up an institution which had run down under a previous
administration. Though he never graduated in theology, he taught in a college belonging
to the United Brethren in Christ, and united with that denomination in September, 1865,
and in 1866, somewhat against his own will, he was licensed to preach. He read the
prescribed books, and was ordained at Medora, Indiana, in August, 1869, receiving his
title of Reverend at that time. In the Fall of 1873, he removed to Annville, Pennsylvania,
where he received the appointment of Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy in
Lebanon Valley College. He occupied this position for two years, and was also the
college pastor from February, 1874, until February, 1875. His real work as a minister
began October 1, 1875, when he accepted a call to become pastor of the Free-Will
Baptist Church at Lake Village, New Hampshire. He remained there until September,
1879, when he accepted a call to New Hampton, New Hampshire, where he continued
until April 1, 1882. On May 7, 1882, he received a call from the Free-Will Baptist
Church at Centre Sandwich, New Hampshire, which he accepted, and continues his
pastorate there up to the present time.
He was Secretary of the College Department in the National Teachers'
Association, held in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1872. He has been a Trustee and
Corporator of New Hampton Literary Institution, Trustee since June, 1878, and
Corporator since June, 1880, and has been Secretary of both boards since 1880. He has
been a member of the Executive Committee of Belknap County Sunday School
Association, since its organization in October, 1877, and its Secretary and Treasurer for
the past three years. He has published an address, entitled "Our Duty to Ourselves, Our
Country and our God." He took his degree of Master of Arts in course.
He is an Independent Republican in politics.
He was married June 13, 1866, to Miss Mary Ermina Wray, of Hartsville, Indiana.
They have four children: Dora Anna, born April 24, 1867; Bessie Blanche, born August
20, 1869; Bertha Aldine, born September 23, 1872; and Woodbury John, born May 13,
1877.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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