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��METHODISM IN PORTSMOUTH.

��BY HON. THOMAS L. TULLOCK. PART SEO )ND— Concluded.

��Rev. Sullivax Holman was born at Hopkinton, N. H.. June 13, 1820; preached under the direction of the presiding elder in 1 84 1-2; entered N. H. Conference in 1843; was pas- tor at Portsmouth four years, 1855-6 and 1863-4; was chaplain of the N. H. legislature in 1858; chaplain of the N. H. state prison in 1867-9 '> preached in Kansas from 1870 to 1876 ; returned to New Hampshire and in 1877 was again appointed chaplain of the state prison, a posi- tion which he retains at the present writing, 18S3. Mr. Holman has filled with great acceptance the pastorates of the leading appointments in the Conference of which he now remains a worthy member. His administra- tions of the various stations and offices to which he has been assigned have been most creditable. Possessing en- ergy of character, industrious habits, and christian zeal, he has served the church with fidelity and has been accept- able as a pastor, popular with the peo- ple, patriotic as a citizen, and is en- titled to a more extended record. At one time two of his brothers, Calvin and Joshua, were with him members of the N. H. Conference.

Rev. Jonathan Hall joined the N. H. Conference in 1847 ; represented New Ipswich in the N. H. legislature of 1853. 1 85 4, 1855 ; was stationed at Portsmouth four years ; at the State- street church 1857-8, and the Brod- head church 1859-60. He was after- ward stationed at Manchester. He had a mania for building churches, which seriously embarrassed him finan- cially, while at New Ipswich and Portsmouth, by the responsibilities he assumed ; and while pastor at Man- chester, he left somewhat abruptly for the West. When I last heard from

��him he was in Michigan, engaged in secular pursuits, but clinging to the Cross.

Rev. Calvin Holman was born in Hopkinton, N. H., July 7, 1823 ; joined the N. H. Conference in 1846 ; was presiding elder of the Dover dis- trict in 1859-62 ; was transferred to the South Carolina Conference in 1866, and appointed presiding elder of the Florida district. He has been accept- able as a pastor in important stations, and also for several years as presiding elder. He is now in the active work of the ministry in the Kansas Confer- ence, to which he was transferred in 1872, having represented it as a dele- gate in the General Conference of 1876.

Rev. Dudley P. Leavjtt, pastor in Portsmouth in 1859-60, was born in Northwood, N. H., Oct. 5, 1824. At the age of sixteen he became an ap- prentice in the office of the N. H. Patriot, at Concord, and worked there and at Haverhill. Mass., at the print- ing business, for about four years. He joined the Methodist Episcopal church at Haverhill in 1842. He was educated at the N. H. Conference Seminary, at Northfield, and the Bibli- cal Institute, at Concord, and was re- ceived into the N. H. Conference in 1850 ; was ordained both as a deacon and elder, by Bishop Baker, being the first person the sainted Bishop ever ordained. He was stationed first at Walpole, in 1850 ; afterward at Ches- terfield, Littleton, Whitefield, and Beth- lehem, Nashua. Newport. N. H., Salis- bury, Mass.. Portsmouth, Dover, and Concord, N. H. Ill health caused a transfer in 1865, and he was appointed presiding elder of the Florida district, South Carolina Conference, where he remained until July, 1866, when, on

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