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��in 1855-8 ; of Claremont district in 1863-5 > anc ^ delegate to the General Conference in 1S56 and 1864. He now sustains a supernumerary relation, residing at Dover — a useful and be- loved member of the Conference, an excellent preacher, a Christian gentle- man, and highly esteemed in the com- munity.

Richard Sutton Rust, d. d., ll. d., was born in Ipswich, Mass., Sept. 12, 18 1 5 ; graduated at Wcsleyan uni- versity in 1 84 1, and joined the N. E. Conference in 1844. He served as principal of the N. H. Conference Seminary and Female College, and as state commissioner of public schools in New Hampshire. After filling ap- pointments at Portsmouth, Manches- ter, Great Falls, Lawrence, and other important stations, he was transferred to the Cincinnati Conference ; was president of Wilberforce university at Zenia, Ohio, afid also of Wesleyan Female College, Cincinnati, and has acted as a delegate to the General Conference. He has been the cor- responding secretary of the Freed- man's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal church by appointment of the General Conference, and has had the supervision and management of that very important institution of the church. He is distinguished as an able and eloquent preacher, a faithful pastor, a superior educator, a vigorous and finished writer. Active, untiring, and eminently successful, he has most creditably filled every position the partiality of his brethren and the authorities of the church have assign- ed to him. His home is at Cincin- nati, Ohio, but he travels extensively in promoting the educational interests of the Freedmen in the South.

Rev. James Pike, d. d., was born in Salisbury, Mass., Nov. 10, 1818; was educated at Wesleyan university ; joined the N. H. Conference in 1841. He has successfully filled the most important stations in the Conference and has been assigned to each of the

��districts in the state where his services as presiding elder have been greatly appreciated. He was an influential delegate to the General Conference of i860, 1864, 1868, and 1872 ; has been a member of the Conference Committee on the Book Concern, and trustee of the Conference Seminary at Tilton, to which he has rendered in- valuable service. He was a member of the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses, serving from 1856 to 1S59. During the late war he served as colonel of the sixteenth N. H. regiment of volunteers, having been commissioned in October, 1862, and served with it during its term of enlistment, being assigned to Banks's expedition. He suffered greatly from malaria and ex- posure in Southern swamps in the vicinity of New Orleans, Port Hud- son and elsewhere. He was the re- publican candidate for governor of New Hampshire in 1871. He mar- ried Mary, daughter of Rev. John Brodhead, and is now stationed at Brtstol N. H., is widely and favorably known throughout the church, and greatly beloved wherever known. He was stationed at Portsmouth in 1865-6, and was presiding elder of Dover dis- trict in 1853-4 and in 1867-70.

Rev. Justin Spaulding, who was pastor of the Portsmouth church in 1853 and 1854, was born in More- town, Vt., in 1802 ; died in his native town in 1865. He joined the N. E. Conference in 1823, and was four years at Rio Janerio, having been selected, in 1836, as missionary to Brazil, where he labored faithfully as superintendent of the mission until 1841, when he returned home and was transferred to the N. H. Conference. He served as presiding elder, and filled several im- portant appointments as minister, and was once a member of the General Conference. " He was an accom- plished Christian gentleman, a good scholar, and an able minister." [to be continued.]

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