The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-17
PERSONAL SKETCHES
81 Prominent Members Of the
Conference.
REV. j. w. CRUDE.

doun county, Va. He was educated at
Hill sboro Academy and Washington and
Lee University. After leaving college
no taught for ten years, and then re-
signed the principalship of the Water
lord Academy, Loudoun county, Va, in
1879 to enter the ministry. Mr.. Grubb
has served Queen Anne's and Trappe
4 circuits, and has been appointed twice
to charges in Baltimore city.
PRESIDING ELDER HARPER.
The Rev. w. H. D. Harper, presiding
older of East Baltimore district. is ma
tive of Queen Anne's county. Early in
life, when only IL years old, he became
h member of the Methodist Church, and
. when about 10 years old was licensed to
exhort, having been n Sunday-school
4 teacher and n class leader for some
4 time. He was licensed to preach when
$, 20, and was made junior preacher in
his home county. Talbot. While doing
i this work he continued to exercise his
$AQffce as local preacher. lie had orig
ia lnally chosen the law as his profession,
& and after four years study was ad-
mltted to the bar at Easton, Md The
a war having interferred very much
"A with the court, Judge Carmichael hav-
81 ing himself been arrested and impris-
oned, he gave up his practice.
He continued to teach in the Easton
deny, where he had been engaged
y
Arse. In 1866 he connected him
tn the Southern Methodist
Sh, and in 1867 was given an APP
Pm ent ut Bladensburg, under the
Z fding eldership of Rev. DR.. John S.
tin In 1871 he was appointed to
nth baltimore, and was instrumental
having handsome church built for
That is now known as Calvary congre-
gation. Here Mr.. Harper lost his ro-
sFbust health and retired from the active
"A work of the ministry for number of
g years, during which time he was clerk
II of the Commissioners Court of Talbot.
"a He was chaplain of the Maryland Sen.
= ate in 1874. In 1878, having regaincd
"a his health, he was put in charge of
Trinity Church. Baltimore, succeeding
Rev. w. w. Walsh, of Virginia. In
s4 $50 he was placed in charge of st.
@&g oauls, and in 1886 he was for the sec
bnd time stationed-at Trinity. In 1855
Inc was made presiding elder Of the East
eBaltimore district.
III DIR. w. A. HARRIS.
n M Prof. VIM. A. Harris, d. d., president
81 Hf the Wesleyan Female Institute,
II which is under the direction of the CON
g ference, was born in Augusta county,
81 Va, and was prepared for college in the
~ classical school of the Rev. Dr. VIM.
q Il. Brown, of Augusta county. In July,
IA 1851, he was graduated at the Virginia
IA Military Institute, Lexington, Va, and
N in 1852 was admitted to the bar and
~ practiced law as the law partner of his
i brother, Judge John T. Harris, of IIar-
fisonburg, Va, who was for several
terms member OF Congress from Vir-
ginia. In 1867 he was invited through
E Bishop Pierce and the Rev. l.. Pierce to
take charge Of a college in Georgia. He
3 was subsequently elected president of
$} the La Grange Female College, La
s# Grange, Ga, where he remained until
|3 $780,
Ssh Thence he was called to organize and
a take charge of the Martha Washington
III College, Abingdon, Va. Under his ad-
the school was crowded
pupils during its first session, and
the college was unable to accommodate
'A ii who desired to matriculate. In 1866
3&8Dr Harris vent to Staunton, Va, to
take charge of the Wesleyan Female
9Institute, which had almost gone to
kuin during the war Under his man.
& Es$s>serem ent the institution achieved great
rosperity. In 1862 DR.. Harris was or
3ained minister, and in 1875 received
lis d. ID. from Randolph Macon College.
sSs 10 has declined a number of offers of
The presidency of other colleges for
|S8young ladies throughout the South. In
3tsasSl S73 he was appointed by the Governor
st}of Virginia and served as member of
a34Jtuc Uodru Va NlSllOtS III INC virginia
6a Military Institute at Lexington.
A L, BARRETT pRETTYMAN.
~ Mr.. e. Is. Prettyman, deputy naval
sd officer of the port of Baltimore, is lay
IS lem Der of the board OF education from
a ltimore district, and is a son of the
lev. William Prettyman, of the Balti-
zere Conference. He was born at Will
psfamsl ort N., in 1880, his father then
being stationed in that city. He was
graduated fr0@ Dickinson College in
'lS. after whiG& he studied law but
never practiccd %For twelve years he
was principal of the, Brookeville Acadc-
my, Maryland, and was clerk of the
=, Montgomery Circuit Court for twenty
- two years. He was chiefSclerk of the
"a Maryland house Of delegates in 1886,
Rand has been deputy navai\officer since
z8 April. 1886 He is a local pNeacher and
N recording steward of the M. 70. Church
on Rockville circuit. He was Sunday-
school superintendent for many years
at Rockville. lie has frequently been
q lay delegate TO the Baltimore Confer
cnce, and was a lay delegate to the Cen
eral Conference at its last three scs-
sions He was also member of the
Centennial Conference of Methodists.
h cid in Baltimore in 1884.
REV. j. N. MCCORMICK.
Rev. j. N. Mccormick, the energetic
and brilliant young pastor of Trinity
Church, was born in 1868 in Richmond,
| where his father was an official Of the
Confederacy. Ho comes of old Virginia
stock, both his fathers and mothers
Families baino rnci1nufc of U;rn;,;o for