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 METHODISM IN PORTSMOUTH.

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��bered, especially by the church and community of Kenosha, where he is worthily represented by his estimable daughter. Mrs. Kate D. Wheeler, who resides there. His widow, Mary Ann, died Dec. 2, 1863.

Rev. Eleazer SMrra, born in Mar- low, N. H., March, 1802, died at Con- cord, N. H., Feb. 2, 1S79, aged 77 years. He joined the N. H. Confer- ence in 1828, and was an able and highly esteemed minister, filling the best appointments in the Conference. He was for fourteen years the faithful chaplain of the N. H. state prison, and wrote a book entitled " Nine Years among the Convicts," which had a large circulation. In 1845, ms voice having failed, he was superannu- ated ; but he served most acceptably as agent of the N. H. Bible Society, and as chaplain of the N. H. state prison. In 1848 he was a delegate to the General Conference. He was a very genial man, pure, pious, and greatly beloved — an excellent pastor, an able and instructive preacher.

Rev. Schuyler Chamberlain, born in Woodstock, Conn., Sept. 4, 1800, died at his residence in Craftsbury, Vt., May 5. 1862, aged 62. He moved to Vermont in 1805 ; was converted, under the labors of Rev. Wilber Fisk, in 1S1S, and joined the first Metho- dist class formed in Craftsbury. He was received into the N. E. Confer- ence in 182S. He possessed superior abilities as a preacher. His style was easy, impressive, and attractive. Dur- ing his itinerant career he filled most creditably a number of most important appointments, and served with marked ability as Presiding Elder. He repre- sented his Annual Conference three times as delegate to the General Con- ference of the church. His widow, Eliza Scott Chamberlain, an excellent Christian woman, was born in 1 799, and died in Craftsbury in 1882.

Rev. John F. Adams, born at Strat- ham, N. H., May 23, 1790, died at Greenland, N. H., June 11. 1S81, aged 91. In 1 Si 2, he was admitted into the New England Conference.

��His circuits for the first three years were in the back settlements of Maine ; he afterward served on different cir- cuits and stations in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachu- setts. He was Presiding Elder for eight years, a member of four General Conferences, and was at one time the financial agent of Newbury, Vt., Sem- inary. He was upon the superannuat- ed list in 1847, and with the exception of two years in the early part of his ministry in a local relation, he main- tained an unbroken connection with the Conference until his death. " Prob- ably he leaves not one behind him more thoroughly identified with the history and growth of Methodism in New England for the last seventy years, especially in the territory now embraced in the New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont Conferences." In 1840 he was stationed at Brom- field street church, Boston, for one year, but returned to the N. H. Conference and was appointed Presid- ing Elder of the Dover district for four years. He was highly respected, and represented the town of Green- land in the New Hampshire legislature of 1S59. He continued to preach, as he had strength and opportunity, until the close of his useful life. Al- ways interested in all the enterprises of the church, he contributed liberally to their support, and having served the church he loved with great fidelity, earnestness, and ability, he passed to his reward. His first wife, a most ex- cellent woman, died in the early part of 1866. July 25, 1867, he mar- ried Sarah W., daughter of Captain Charles Treadwell, formerly of Ports- mouth, whose devotion to the aged pilgrim was sincere, tender, and affec- tionate.

Rev. Jared Perkins, born in Unity, N. H., 1793, died at Nashua, N. H., Oct. 15. 1854, aged 61. He entered the ministry in 1824, and was a faithful servant of the church. Thirty years of his active life he preached the gospel, and as pastor and Presiding Elder was successful. He was several times

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