Born: Coolville, Ohio, 1876.
Died:
Grew up on the farm. Attended the country school, the village high school, Hiram College and the University of Illinois. Taught school at nineteen. The first year of his married life he worked on a farm and preached to weak churches in Ohio. For this service, he received twenty-five cents in money and much valuable experience. Then he went to a small church in Michigan for full time at $300 per year. While there, the advice and encouragement given him by A. P. Frost, the father of Miss Adelaide Frost, were worth as much to him as years of college work.
After five years in Michigan, he came to Illinois, where he has served the churches at Armington, Leroy, Carbondale, New Bedford and Palmyra. He was converted in a little country M. E. church. While he never joined the church, his Methodist brethren treated him most fraternally. He has helped in the building of three houses of worship, and has received more than two thousand into the church.