is now classed as located; resides at Tilton, where he has four children, students at the Conference Seminary, and supplies the church at Contoocook. Mr. Bailey was commissioned chaplain of the second N. H. regiment of volunteers but resigned in favor of a friend. He rendered, however, efficient services to the Christian Commission, and was at one time in charge of the large supply station on the Newmarket road in front of Richmond.
Rev. Lorenzo Dow Barrows, d. d., was born in Windham, Vermont, July 1, 1817; died at Plymouth, N. H., Feb. 18, 1878 ; was licensed to exhort and preach in 1835; joined the N. H. Conference in 1836, and was appointed to important stations in New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Ohio; was president of the N. H. Conference Seminary and Pittsburgh Female College, presiding elder three years, and delegate to the General Conference. He received a thorough academic education at the New Hampshire and Vermont Conference seminaries, and became a strong and influential minister of the gospel. He possessed rare abilities as a preacher, was successful as an educator, and was regarded as a most excellent disciplinarian. He was distinguished as an able advocate, a clear and vigorous writer, and was greatly esteemed for his ability, fidelity, and Christian virtues. He was interested in the cause of temperance, anti-slavery, freedman's aid, and many reformatory movements.
Rev. James Noyes was born at Columbia, N. H., July 2, 1835. He received an academic education at Newbury seminary, and was about to enter upon a collegiate course, but instead enlisted in the Union army in Dec, 1861, and served until Nov., 1865, when he was mustered out as captain of infantry. He soon after entered Boston university, and graduated from the theological school in the class of 1869. He joined the N. H. Conference in 1867, and has been stationed at Methuen, Suncook, Lancaster, Portsmouth (1876-7), Amesbury, Milford, and Winchester. He has been successful in the ministry, and an esteemed member of his conference.
Rev. Charles Bruce Pitblado was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, Sept. 23, 1835; was educated at Dunfermline and Edinburgh; came to America in 1862; entered the traveling connection of the Wesleyan Methodist church in 1862, and preached in Canada until 1872, when he joined the Maine Conference and was stationed at Portland; was transferred to the N. H. Conference, and was appointed to Manchester in 1875-7; to Portsmouth in 1878-80; and is now pastor of the M. E. church at Newmarket. Mr. Pitblado has quite a reputation as an able preacher and lecturer, and is particularly active in the cause of temperance.
Rev. Watson W. Smith was born at Bucksport, Maine, Sept. 24, 1836; graduated at the Methodist General Biblical Institute at Concord in 1864 joined the N. H. Conference in 1870 was stationed at Portsmouth in 1864; is now in a supernumerary relation to the conference, and resides at Melrose, Mass.
Rev. George J. Judkins was born at Kingston, N. H., Dec. 21, 1830; fitted for college at the N. H. Conference Seminary; graduated at Wesleyan university in 1860, taking the fifth special honor of his class, and being elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society; principal of Kingston Academy, 1860 to 1865; was principal of the N. H. Conference Seminary and Female College, 1865 to 1871; joined the N. H. Conference in 1868; was stationed in Methuen in 1872-5, and Newmarket in 1875-7; presiding elder of Claremont district in 1877-80, and of Dover district in 1881-3. He has been trustee of the N. H. Conference Seminary since 1875, and of the Wesleyan university since 1878, and a member of the General Conference in 1880; was
