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| MILTON WELLS. |
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Milton Wells was born July 13, 1829; educated
in common schools in Brooke county, Va.
1857 to 1859 in Bethany College; principal
of high schools 1850 and 1860 and 1861, and
enlisted in the army in July, 1861, as private;
discharged April 8, 1865, as Colonel, on account
of wound received in action; was immersed by
A. E. Myers 1852; elder of Wellsburg and
West Liberty, Va., churches; after discharge
from the army principal of Wellsburg and
Ravenwood, West Virginia, high school; 1873,
made evangelist of fourth missionary district
of West Virginia; 1881, minister of Central
church, WIsconsin; 1888, minister at Richland
Center; 1893, minister for Green, Marble
Rock, Urbana and Prairie Creek churches,
Iowa; retired to Footville, Wisconsin, 1870; has
preached over two hundred sermons since;
has immersed about 5,000 persons.
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GEO. H. BABB, deceased.
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