The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-03-13

Hundreds of people who read THE
TINES are anxious to know who will be
their pastor during the ensusing confer
ence year. Many are expecting "new
preachers" and below are interesting
Sketches OF the lives of many members
of the Conference. These sketches will
be continued during the Conference un-
til every member of the Conference is
written up
Rev. O. A. Armstrong
was born in Highland county, Va,
March 5th, 1854. He attended the or
binary county school until his seven
teenth year, when he entered classical
school for two years. At the expiration
of that time he was appointed a teacher
in a high school located in Frederick
county, Nd, where he remained for two
seasons. He was admitted into the Balti-
more Conference at its session in Win
chester, Va, March, 1876. The two
years following he served on Monterey
circuit as junior preacher, and was next
appointed to HillSdale Mission, subse-
quently going to Greenbank circuit,
Union, w. Va; Covingten, Va; Level
ton circuit, Blacksburg, Va; Stafford
circuit and Bridgewater circuit, where
he is just closing his second years
work. This charge comprises nine
churches and has membership of $50.
Rev. John l.. Grant
was born in Winchester, Va, on the
10th of September 1865 and educated at
tho Shenandoah Valley Academy in
Winchester, and at Randolph Macon
College at Ashland. Va. He Joined the
Baltimore Conference at it's last session
in BALTIMORE, and was appointed to
Piedmont CIRCUIT to assist Rev. f. G.
'''''' Rev. en-. Harris
was born November %, 1864, near
Wardensville, W. Va, and graduated
with the degree of A. b. at sRandolph-
Macon College in 1888. The samesYear
he was sent to Loudoun circuit as junior
preacher under Rev. j. G. Dice, and the
following year was returned to that
charge. He was sent to Easton by the
last conference Mr.. Harris has been
in the ministry three years. He is one
of the youngest ministers in the con-
ference, Easton being his second APP
pointment since he graduated in 1885,
He is an energetic laborer, and is an
enthusiastic preacher, attracting large
congregations to hear him at the
various religious services of the church.
His sermons to the young people
preached last fall attracted much at
tention, and won for him reputation
as young man of ability. He is q hard
student.
Rev. Samuel w. HaddawaY
was born in Talbot county, Md, Au-
gust 1st, 1850, and entered the Confer
cnce in MarDh, 1869, being appointed to
Baltimore circuit, where he remained as
junior pastor for three years. He had
charge OF Beltsville circuit for three
years, and was stationed in Baltimore,
Piedmont. and Moorctield, w. Va, Lou
doun and Middleburg circuits for three
years; Falls Church station, Mt. Vernon
place, Washington, four years, and
lastly, Central Church, Baltimore. He
is closing his first year in this station,
and his 22nd in the Conference.
Rev. VIM. Stuart Holland
was born in Wildwood, Clarke county,
Va, April the 18th. 1855, and is now So
years old.
He was first licensed to preach the
gospel on the Goth day of December
1876, in Washington, D. c., by the
Fifteenth-street Methodist Episcopal
Church, of which w. I. Mckinney was
pastor and Rev. VIM. +. Speake, of the
Baltimore Conference presiding elder.
He was educated at Dickin son Seminary,
located at Williamsport, Pennsylvania,
where he spent three years preaching
on Sunday and attending school during
the week. From here he went West
and joined the Nebraska Annual Confer.
ence.
He was ordained deacon on the 18th
day of October, 1870, in Lincoln, Ne
Harris. He was ordained elder in the
city of Rochester, New York, by Bishop
Randolph S. Foster, on the nth day of
October, 1888. He was received into the
Baltimore Conference of tho Methodist
Episcopal Church, South last March
from the Jenesee Annual Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church. He
breaches without manuscript and fire.
Quently delivers public lectures on
moral and religious topics.
He has preached over 400 sermons
in Potter county, Pa, not including
seventy-two funeral sermons. travelled
over 1000 miles and married twenty
two couples in just one county He has
served the following charges as pastor:
Ayr, Adams county, Neb.; Blue Hill,
Webster county, Neb; Wharton, Potter
county, Pa; CASTILLO, Potter county, Pa. :;
Austin, Potter county, Pa; Heating
Summit, Potter county. Pa; Ellicott-
vile, N. Y; Allegheny, N. Y; Oswayo,
Potter county, Pa. His present mis-
sion is Page mission and he lives at
Luray, Page county. Va.
Rev. j. 8. HOsklns
was born in Staunton, Va, on the top
of Gosple Hill, Nov. 25, 1921. At the
age of twelve his father took him to
Ohio. then considered the frontier
When twenty he went farther west to
Indiana. He was converted in childhood
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