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appointments in and around Philadelphia. While at Wilmington, Del., he bought a lot and built a church which laid the foundation for the present grand structure. At the present writing he is doing a grand work at Ebenezer, in Baltimore.
Was born in Maryland, Washington county, October 12, 1842, and was received into the church by Rev. Peter Loper. He received exhorter's license in September, 1875, and entered the New Jersey Conference, at Trenton, in 1877. He was ordained Deacon at Morristown, N. J., by Bishop J. M. Brown, in 1882.
Was born January 21, 1844, in Adams Co., Pa., near Gettysburg. His father and mother both served out their time in private families until twenty-eight years of age. The father in a family by the name of Cabeans, of Scotch descent, and the mother in a family by the name of McCessons. He attended county school three months a year for six years, was converted in 1860 and united with the A. M. E. Zion Church at Gettysburg. He was licensed to exhort in 1861 by Rev. Thomas Carter, and received preacher's license in 1862 under Rev. Abraham Cole. He removed from Gettysburg to Reading, Pa., in 186, and there unitied with the A. M. E. Church under Rev. William R. Norris. He entered the Philadelphia Conference in 1867 and was appointed to Pennington in 1868. He was appointed to assist Rev. J. C. Cornish, on the West Chester Circuit, and was assigned by Elder Cornish to that part of the circuit that included Media, Westtown, Unionville and Lamberton. He erected a church at Media, in 1868, at a cost of $2,000, and served two years, when he was appointed to Woodbury Circuit in 1871. In 1872 he organized a mission at Mt. Clair and in 1873 was appointed to Port Republic. He organized a Mission at Atlantic City and in October of that year was appointed to Cape May Circuit and served there until conference. The pastor having been removed he
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