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1866, Joined New England Conference. Appointments: 1866, Chicopee
Falls; 1867-8, Northampton; 1869-71, Springfield, Union Street; 1872-3,
Leominster; 1874-6, Lowell, Central Church; 1877-9, Charlestown, Monument
Square; 1880-82, South Boston, Broadway Church and City Point Mission; 1883-5,
Malden, Centre Church; 1886-91, Presiding Elder, Lynn District. (Organized
nine new churches.) 1892-3, pastor of Bromfield St. Church, Boston.
On the third year was taken up and appointed P. E. of Boston District.
Served the district five and a half years, organized tree new churches.
Then transferred to Cambridge District, where served as P. E. five and a half
years. Organized four new churches.
1898-1905, Superintendent of Boston City Missions. Seventeen years
Presiding Elder, seven years Superintendent of Boston City Missions.
1905- , Superintendent of Boston Missionary and Church Extension Society and
of Foreign Work in New England Conference. Published "Monuments of
Upper Egypt," revised and enlarged in 1890, "United Praise," (a
Psalter from the revised version of the Psalms) in 1892.
1888 and 1900, Delegate to General Conference.
1901, Delegate to Ecumenical Conference, held in City Road Chapel, London.
Clerk of the Methodist Ministers Relief Association, Boston, for twenty-eight
years; in that time collected and paid to widows and orphans of deceased
ministers, $687, 259.00.
Married, Sept. 6, 1865, Miss Pamelia S. Murray, teacher of Art in Troy
Conference Academy, Newbury Seminary, and Sackville College, New Brunswick.
Children: Mabel Sexton, born June 15, 1870; died Sept. 4, 1870.
Frederic J., born July 6, 1874. Graduate of Boston University,
Optician, Boston, Mass.
George Whitney, born Sept. 28, 1876. Graduate Boston English High
School. Optician, Boston, Mass.
Eliza Chamberlain, born Aug. 2, 1878. Studied at Boston University.
Grace Murray, born Jan. 26, 1880. Studied in Boston Normal Art School.
Address: 41 Osborne Road, Brookline, Mass.
Source: History of Class
of 1865 Wesleyan University, Fortieth Reunion, Middletown
Connecticut, June 27, 1905.
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