Born: Bath County, Kentucky, 1810.
Died: Jefferson County, Illinois, 1890.
He united with the Christian Church and entered its ministry about 1857. For fifteen years before that time he had served as an itinerant Methodist minister. He was a talented, well-educated man, owned and used a large library, had a fine memory--reading much of the Bible without the text--held many public discussions and formed not a few churches in southern Illinois during the last thirty-three years of his life.