East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-10-09
NEW NJ. {. PASTOR
HAS ARRIVED
DIR. I. B. FORD IS A
MINISTER OF PROMINENCE
Well Known Minister and Family Ar
rive From Portland To Make Their
Home in This City-Daughter an
Accomplished Musician - Entire
Family Pleased With Appearance
of City of Pendleton.

DR.. T. b. Ford, declared by the
| Portland Oregonlan to be the most
widely known Methodist minister in
the Oregon conference, in company
with his family, arrived in Pendleton
last evening to enter upon his new
duties as pastor Of the First Metho-
dist church in this city.
The new pastor and his family were
almost overwhelmed with the enthus-
iastic reception rendered them at the
train last evening by the large num-
Der of local Methodists and they are
! loud in their praises of the business
! like appearance of the city and the
delightful climate. DR.. Ford says
Pendleton impresses him as being one
of the best cities Of its size he ever
saw. He therefore enters upon his
new pastorate with the same If not a
greater degree Of enthusiasm than
has marked his work in other fields.
In speaking of his removal from
Portland to this city the Portland
Oregonian has the following to say
concerning him and his work:
Why He Is Known.
"The transfer of DR.. Ford, F. b.,
was one of the big surprises of the as
signments. He is perhaps the most
widely known of the Methodist min
isters in the whole conference, having
served eight years as presiding elder
(now superintendent on the Eugene
district and four years as pastor of
the Sunnyside Methodist church. His
work has always been of the highest
order and ne has been very success |
full wherever he has labored. Under !
his ministry the Sunnyside church |
strumental in assisting in other or
in the neighboring COM
Prior to coming to oregon. DR.. |
Ford was presiding elder of Seattle |
district, and still earlier in his min
lsterial career he held the same po-
sition in the Little Rock, Ark. dis
trict He has contributed largely to
the periodicals of the denomination,
and his book on the presiding elder
ship is the only work of the kind ever
published and had a wide sale.
"The church at Pendleton. to which
he was transferred, is one of the most
edifices in northwest
Methodism, it being a new building
costing $4,000. Pendleton also has
a nice parsonage, and is an altogether
desirable appointment 1t is in the
Columbia River conference, one of
he strongest conferences i'm the west.
\ Splendid Family.
But not alone in the acquisition of
Dr. Ford is the city to be congratu-
ated, for in addition to his most es-
make its home here, includes two
daughters who will prove a valuable
addition to the social element of the
'hurch and city. The elder daughter
Miss Sadie. is a graduate of the Con-
;ervatory of Music of the University |
If Oregon and was assistant instruc-
or in the piano department for two
-ears, She is also a pipe organist of
,bility Miss Ivy is a graduate of the
Eugene high school and later attend
"a the Willamette University at Sa-
en-.
The remainder of the family con-
lists of two sons Olin, who is engag
"a in business i'm Portland, and Bur
,ess. who was professor of history at
he Montana Wesleyan University for
vo veors hut who Is now taking /