Born: Meigs County, Ohio, 1855.
Died:
Was educated in the school of hard manual work and trained in the common and select schools, U. C. College and literary correspondence courses of two universities. He was an ordained minister in the Christian Denomination for four years. In January, 1889, at Illiopolis, Illinois, he united with the Christian Church during the pastorate of U. M. Browder.
He served the Paris Church with much efficiency; also preached for the Kansas and Bell Ridge Churches in Edgar County, and the church at Tuscola, besides churches in other States. He has organized five congregations and induced fourteen young men to enter the Christian ministry. He conducted the funeral of Dennis Hanks, who taught Abraham Lincoln to read. Mr. Hanks died at the age of ninety-three years from the effects of a runaway.