MORGAN'S HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE Page 54
Was born in Frankford, Pa., January 19, 1857. He embraced religion at the age of fourteen, and joined the A. M. E. Church in 1871. In 1878 he applied for and received an exhorter's license, under the Rev. S. B. Williams. The following year he applied for and received local preacher's license from Rev. R. Faucett. At the death of Elder Stiles he was sent by Rev. R. Faucett to fill out the unexpired term of Rev. Stiles, at Bordentown, but finding that the Bishop had sent the Rev. E. W. Taylor, and he being an Elder, he returned home and reported the same. At the death of the Rev. G. E. Boyer he was sent by Rev. J. W. Cooper to hold said charge (Burlington) until conference. But on going there he found the officers of the church in receipt of a communication from the Bishop, informing them that a pastor was on his way to fill the charge. He labored on Sunday and returned home reporting the same. In 1881 he was impressed that his calling was to the active work. At the conference sitting in Princeton, N. J., he made application to the same for work and was appointed to Rocky Hill Circuit and was returned the following year. This year he learned from experience that the Christian ministry has its clouds and its sunshine. Yet through God he held his own and reported at the next conference at Bridgeton, in 1883, and was appointed to Millville Circuit.
Was born a slave near the town of Springfield, Ky., in 1848. Between the ages of ten and twelve years he was happily converted to God. He attributes this to the blessed influence of a Christian father, he being a minister (Methodist). In his seventeenth year, in 1864, he enlisted as a soldier in the army during the late war, in the One Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment of Kentucky, and remained nearly three years. His dear father died in 1865, at the age of eighty-five. His mother died at the age of seventy-five. Although he was divinely impressed to enter the ministry in early boyhood yet he could not do so until his sainted mother was taken from labor to reward. He was her
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