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��account of the climate not being con- genial, he was re-transferred to the N. II. Conference, and stationed at Sanbornton Bridge, now Tilton. where he remained two years. In 1868 he was transferred to the Providence Conference, and served tor three years as the pastor of the County- street M. E. church at New Bedford, Mass. Thence he went to Newport, R. I. He was three years at Provi- dence (Chestnut-street church in 1877-79, and Trinity church in 1880- 82), and is now stationed at East Weymouth, Mass. He was a member of the General Conference in 1S76. Mr. Leavitt is remembered with inter- est and affection for his fidelity as a preacher, and many Christian excel- lencies. Possessing marked abilities and winning manners, modest and unassuming, he has maintained an ex- cellent reputation and has been regard- ed as eminently adapted for the pro- fession he had divinely chosen. He married first, May 1, 1850, Miss Caro- line F. Howe, of Watertown, Mass., who died at Chesterfield, N. H., Feb. 15, 1S52. His second marriage, May 2, 1853, was to Miss Elvira Clark, of Landaff, N. H.

Rf.v. Richard Humphriss was born in Sudlersville, Maryland, May 27, 1836. His father, Rev. Joshua Hum- phriss, who was a native of Maryland, and a highly esteemed member of the Philadelphia Conference, died January 23, 1 8 79, in the seventy-eighth year of his age and the fifty-second of his ministry. Richard was educated at the public schools of Philadelphia, the Wilmington academy, and Dick- inson college at Carlisle. He taught in the principal male grammar school at Pottstown, Pa., and was a teacher in Dickinson seminary at Williams- port, of which the present Bishop Bowman was then president. He commenced a Christian life in the fifteenth year of his age, and was licensed as a local preacher in the nineteenth. He entered Philadelphia Conference in March, 1857, when twenty-one years old, and was ap-

��pointed pastor of Chestnut Hill church, Philadelphia. In 1S5S he was stationed at Doylestown. In March, 1859, he obtained a certificate of location for the purpose of pursu- ing theological studies at the Metho- dist General Biblical Institute at Con- cord, which he entered in April, 1859. During his student life at the Institute he supplied, in 1859-60, the pulpit of the High- street M. E. church at Great Falls. In 186 1 he united with the N. H. Conference and was ap- pointed fo Portsmouth, where he re- mained the full pastoral term of two years. During those thrilling times of the rebellion, although unsuccess- ful in his application for a chaplaincy in the army, he was particularly active at war meetings in Maine and Nesv Hampshire, speaking " in a vein of eloquence rarely surpassed." He mar- ried, about the close of his successful pastorate at Portsmouth, Miss Mary I. Johnson, of Sanbornton Bridge. In 1863-4 he was stationed at Haverhill, Mass. In 1865 he had pressing in- vitations from important charges in four annual conferences, but yielding to the first call, he was transferred to the Providence Conference, and as- signed to New Bedford, where he re- mained three years. Just before leav- ing the Conference, in 1S68, he preached the Conference missionary sermon, which was warmly commend- ed, and characterized as an effort every way worthy of the speaker and the occasion. In 1868 he was trans- ferred to his home Conference, and stationed at Trinity M. E. church in Philadelphia. He continued in that city in important stations twelve suc- cessive years. In 1880-82 he was at Reading, and is now at Columbia, where his father was stationed forty years ago, it being the fourth church at which both himself and his father have ministered. Columbia has a large society. The gifted Alfred Cook- man was born and married in the town, and his father, the eloquent George G. Cookman was stationed there in 1828. Mr. Humphriss has

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