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��a delegate to the General Conference, and in 1 846-1 849, was a member of the governor's council. He repre- sented Winchester in the N. H. state legislature of 1850, and was a repre- sentative in the thirty-second congress, Dec. 1, i?5i,to March 3, 1S53. He was influential in the church and state. His widow, Charlotte Perkins, died at South Newmarket, Dec. 3, 1875, aged 70. She was born in Methuen, Mass. ; married in 1833.

Rev. James G. Smith " grew up with Methodism in Claremont." Af- ter exercising as an exhorter, he was granted a local preacher's license April 8, 1826, at a quarterly meeting at Salem, N. H. ; was received into the N. H. Conference at Lisbon in 1826 ; superannuated in 1847, since which time he has resided at Plymouth, N. H., and preached con- siderably in that town and vicinity. He was stationed at Portsmouth in 1838. He was an excellent singer, gifted in prayer, a strong and vigorous thinker, and expressed his thoughts with considerable force and effective- ness. His wife, Polly L. Smith, who died at Plymouth, Nov. 26, 1879, was born in Royalton, Vt., March 4, 1801, and was married in 1828.

Rev. Daniel Ingalls Robinson was born in Salem, N. H., Dec. 26, 1S09. When fifteen years of age, and while residing at Dedham, Mass, he united with the church, and soon thereafter entered Wilbraham Academy, and was a diligent student ; taught school dur- ing vacations until eighteen years of age, when he commenced preaching, itinerating mainly on the Concord district. He was ordained by Bishop Hedding in 183 1, when he joined the N. H. Conference and was connected with it until 1844. He was stationed at Great Falls, twice at Haverhill, Plymouth, Portsmouth (1839, 1840) and Exeter. He located in 1838, for one year, during which he lectured extensively in New England on the subject of slavery, having in the four previous years written and lectured on the same subject. In 1844 he be-

��came an evangelist, and assiduously labored in that capacity, giving prominence to the Second Advent doctrine, in which he had become in- terested. In 1865 he went to Nash- ville, Tenn., and was active as a pas- tor and also as a teacher to the freed- men. He died at Edgefield, Tenn., Aug. 15, 1869. Mr. Robinson was a very pious man, and an excellent preacher ; was successful in his pas- torates, and in his mission as an evan- gelist. He was well known for his ability as a preacher, his activity in the anti-slavery cause, and as an ad- vocate of total abstinence from 1834 until his death. Remarkably fluent and effective as a speaker — able, logi- cal, enthusiastic, and eloquent — he was always diligent, laborious, and faith- ful. He was bold in denouncing the fugitive slave act, and participated with very great ability in the public discussions of that subject at the meetings held in the Temple at Ports- mouth, about 1 85 1. After the war closed his energies were earnestly de- voted to the elevation and instruction of the freedmen. He was emphat- ically a good man, kind and generous to all, possessing an ardent tempera- ment and a Christian spirit. He faith- fully and zealously followed his con- victions of duty, and is kindly re- membered for his ability, sincerity, and goodness.

Rev. Samuel Kelley, born in Sa- lem, N. H., Feb. 1, 1802, was the son of Richard Kelley, four generations from John Kelley, who immigrated from Newbury, Berkshire, England, in 1635, a °d settled in Newbury, Mass. His mother's name was Sibbel Fletch- er, sixth generation from Robert Fletcher, who was from Yorkshire, England, and settled in Concord, Mass, 1630. Miss Fletcher was the daughter of Rev. Samuel Fletcher, a fathtul pastor of the Baptist church at Salem. She married Richard Kelley April 6, 1786, and Samuel Kelley is the last surviving child of two sons and eight daughters. Mr. Kelley worked on the home farm at

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