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lot has proven to be valuable church property. Transferred to Philadelphia Conference.
Was born at Liverpool, N. S., September 26, 1834. His father was a Wesleyan minister, who died at the age of fifty-seven. He spent three years in the common school of Liverpool, and five years at the academy. He served a term of years at the painters', grainers', glaziers' and paper-hangers' trade. He studied navigation and pursued maratime pursuits several years as navigator. In 1859 he was appointed to teach in the public school at Port-de-La-Lour, Shelburn county, Nova Scotia. In the same year he was licensed to preach in the British Methodist Episcopal Church, at Liverpool. There, under the Zion A. M. E. Church, he taught school and preached in Port-de-La-Lour until November, 1864. He then attended and graduated from the Normal Provincial College, at Liverpool. He accepted a call to teach in the public school at Liverpool, his native town, where he taught and preached three years. In the latter part of the third year he corresponded with Bishop Willis Nazery, of Ontario, Upper Canada, and requested him to organize the British M. E. Church, or the Nova Scotia Conference, and at the same time, by proxy, receive the Demerara British West India Conference. Rev. J. G. Urling and others, at this conference, which was held in July, 1867, were ordained deacons by Bishop Nazery. Bro. Goosley was ordained in 1868 by Bishop Nazery and appointed to Halifax. In September he taught the colored grammar school, and at the same time held the pastoral charge of the Zion B. M. E. Church for three years. This church had only fourteen members and was without a parsonage, but when he left it it had a membership of ninety-five and a fine parsonage and other improvements. In July, 1870, he was transferred, on account of poor health, to the Ontario Conference, and was stationed at Chatham, where he taught school and held the pastoral charge for years, with much success. In this charge he also built a parsonage. He was also appointed to the Hamilton charge, Canada, where he remained two years. In July, 1874, he
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