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The Encyclopedia of Methodism - The Encyclopedia of Methodism, Embracing Sketches of its Rise, Progress, and Present Condition, with Biographical Notices and Numerous Illustrations. Edited By Matthew Simpson, D.D. L.L.D. one of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church;Philadelphia:Everts & Stewart 1878

Washington C. DePauw, Esq. was born at Salem, Ind., in 1822, and now resides at New Albany, in the same State. He had all the educational advantages, which were furnished at that early period, but which were small compared with the present facilities At the age of sixteen his father died, and he was dependent upon his own resources. Unwilling to lean on any relations, he worked for two dollars a week, where he could get it, and when he could not get pay he worked for nothing rather than be idle. So fully did his course gain public confidence that at the age of twenty-one he was without opposition elected clerk and auditor of his native county, and was reelected until he refused to serve longer. For more than a quarter of a century he has declined all public position, and refused to be a candidate for any office, though repeatedly to be a candidate for any office, though repeatedly urged to do so. In 1872 he was solicited from many parts of the State to be a candidate for governor, and was assured that he would not be expected to make the usual canvass. In his absence from the State, and with his known opposition, he was placed on the ticket for lieutenant governor, but respectfully declined the nomination. He has been extensively engaged in various departments of business as a manufacturer, grain-dealer, and banker, and in all these departments he has been successful, and has realized a handsome fortune. This has been employed in building churches and educational institutions, and in helping the poor and educating the deserving. He is an active member of the M.E. Church......

Daniel H. Horne, was born in York Co., PA., Nov. 26, 1788 and settled in Cincinnati in 1809. He was not only a pillar of strength, but an ornament to the Sixth Street Methodist church, with which he was identified to the end of his life. He was a man of integrity and sincere piety. His benefactions to the church and to the needy were generous, and made without the least ostentation. In 1826 he was a member of what was then known as the "Old Stone Church," since called "Wesley Chapel," and in that year he joined the class led by Father Whetsone. He helped organize the Methodist Church on the "mutual rights" basis and continued an unwavering friend of the denomination during his whole life. His gifts to the educational and other enterprises of the church were proof of his devotion to it. On Sabbath morning, March 27, 1870, this truly good man passed away, after a long period of affliction.

Joseph Horner, D.D., was born in Boroughbridge, England, March 23, 1824, being the son of a Methodist local preacher. Removing to Pittsburgh, he was converted and united with the church in 1842; graduated with honor at the Western University of Pennsylvania, and in 1869 received from Alleghany College the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He was received into the Pittsburgh Conference in 1850, and in 1854 became principal of the Green Academy. He was appointed agent of the Methodist Book Depository in October, 1868, and has continued in that position to the present time. He was delegate from the Pittsburgh Conference to the General Conferences of 1872 and 1876, in 1876 being secretary of the committee on the state of the church. He has contributed many articles to the press, especially to The Quarterly Review and The Ladies' Repository, and is now preparing a commentary on the minor prophets being part of the Whedon series on the Bible.

John M. Howe, M.D., was born in New York City in 1806, was converted in his fourteenth year. He became a local preacher in 1834, and was ordained an elder. In his early ministry he performed a great amount of pulpit work, and for three years was chaplain of the New York Hospital. In 1836-37 his health failed because of pulmonary troubles and he was providentially led to use and inhaling tube, and was finally restored to health. Since he graduated in medicine, in 1844, he has made this a specialty. He was one of the founders of the National Local Preachers' Association. For the past eleven years he has been trustee of the State of Normal School, of Trenton, and a member of the State Board of Education of New Jersey. He resides in Passaic, N.J.

William Howe, a leading layman of the United Methodist Free Churches, England. He is a merchant and resides in Manchester. He held the office of connection treasurer for seven years. Advancing years have made it necessary for him to retire from the prominent position he once held in the councils of the body, but he is still an active member of the Theological Institute committee, having served in that capacity ever since its establishment.

J.B. Houghtaling, was born in October, 1797. In 1813 he commenced the study of law at which he remained five years and subsequently, for a time, was employed as a teacher. He was received into the New York Conference in 1828, and filled a number of the most prominent appointments. He had remarkable talent for business, and was employed as secretary of the Troy Conference from the time of its organization until hi health failed. He attended the General Conference twice, and was at each chosen assistant secretary. He died in 1877, his last words being, " I am going home to heaven."

Oliver Hoyt, a lay delegate from the New York East Conference to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1872 and 1876, was born in Stanford, Conn., in 1823. He went into business in 1844 in the city of New York, where he laid the foundation of the present leather house Hoyt Brothers. He has made several large gifts to the purpose of the church, among which may be named his contributions to the building of the church at Stamford, Conn., a gift of $25, 000 to Wesleyan University, and one of $2000 to the Wesley Memorial church, of Savannah, Ga. He has been for more than twenty years an active member of the Board of Managers of the General Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has also served as treasurer of the Church Board of Education. He was one of the founders of The Methodist newspaper, and takes an active part in all church work. He has also been a member of the State Senate of Connecticut.

Hon. Chester Dorman Hubbard, a lay delegate from the West Virginia Conference in the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church of 1872, was born Nov. 25, 1817, at Hamden, Conn. He was graduated from the Wesleyan University in 1840, and engaged in business at Wheeling, Va. In 1851 he was elected a member of the House of Delegates of Virginia. In 1853 he was made president of the Bank of Wheeling. He was a member of the Richmond Convention of 1861, and voted in that body against the ordinance of secession. He was afterwards a member of the convention which sat a Wheeling and instituted the State and government of West Virginia. He served in 1863 and 1864 as a member of the State Senate of West Virginia, and from 1865 to 1869 as a member of the House of Representatives in the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses. He has been engaged in the manufacture of iron and nails at Wheeling, W.Va., and is secretary of the Wheeling Iron and Nail Company.

Erwin House, A.M., was born in Worthington, Ohio Feb. 17, 1824 and died suddenly in Cincinnati, May 20, 1875. He was converted when thirteen years of age and graduated from Woodward College in 1846. In 1847 he was appointed assistant editor of The Ladies' Repository. From March 1851 to December 1852, he had sole editorial charge of this magazine and was for several years assistant editor of The Western Christian Advocate. He published a number of valuable works, such as "Sketches for the Young," "The Missionary in Many Lands," "The Homilist," "Scripture Cabinet," and "Sunday-School Handbook." He was especially successful as a Sunday-school worker. In an editorial capacity he faithfully and successfully served the church for more than twenty-five years. "He was earnest in his devotion to the church, systematic and generous in his benefactions and catholic-hearted towards the whole world.

Wm. J. Holcombe, M.D., of the Methodist Protestant Church, was born in Prince Edward Co., VA., March 1, 1798. He was graduated in medicine by the University of Pennsylvania at an early age, and after three years' practice in Powhatan Co., VA., removed to Lynchburg, VA., where he successfully pursued his profession for twenty years. About 1822 he embraced religion, and united with the M.E. Church. Soon thereafter he was licensed as a local preacher, and continued in the work to the period of this death. Practicing his profession, he joined joined with it regular Sabbath preaching, and had great popularity in both callings. He was a man of extensive literary attainments, and a volume of poems from his pen exhibits very respectable gifts. He was a man of extensive literary attainments, and a volume of poems from his pen exhibits very respectable gifts. He was an early advocate of reform in the M.E. Church and was refused ordination as a supporter of the "Mutual Rights" and lay representation. He was very serviceable with his pen in the organization of the Methodist Protestant Church. Having emancipated his slaves, and subsequently coming into the possession of about one hundred, he removed to Indiana, that by residing in a free State they might also be emancipated, under provision of the will of a relative through whom he received them, which declared them free unless he continued to reside in a Slave State. He remained in the West some fifteen years, and returned to Virginia in 1855. He died February 21, 1867.

Wesley W. Hooper, A.M., president of Shaw University, was born in Licking Co., Ohio, Ovt. 18, 1843. At the age of fourteen he was converted and joined the M.E. Church. In 1861 he entered the army as a volunteer, and served three years, and on his discharge resumed his studies, and graduated at the Ohio Wesleyan University, June, 1872. He was elected, in 1873, Professor of Ancient Languages and Natural Science in Shaw University, and in 1876 was advanced to the position which he now holds. He was licensed as a local preacher in 1870, and joined the Mississippi Conference of the M.E. Church in 1874.

Robert Hopkins, was born April 6, 1798, in Bourbon Co., KY., and in 1823 joined the Ohio Conference. In 1825, by division he became a member of the Pittsburgh Conference, where he has filled important charges. For nineteen years he was presiding elder, and for three years book agent at Pittsburgh. He was a member of the General Conferences of 1832, 1836, 1840, 1848 and 1852. In times of church controversy he was remarkable for firmness and loyalty to the church.

Erasmus Fuller, D.D., was born in Carlton, N.Y., April 15, 1828. At seven years of age he was greatly impressed by the Divine Spirit and joined the church at fourteen. While in school at Adrian, Mich., he came under the notice of the late James. V. Watson, D.D., of the Michigan Christian Advocate, and subsequently became his partner. He was assistant editor of the Northwestern Advocate four years; entered the pastorate in Rock River Conference December, 1856, serving at Peru two years, Lee Centre two, Elgin two, Aurora one, Mendota district four, Dixon district one. In September, 1868, he transferred to Georgia; was elected editor of The Methodist Advocate, first issued January, 1869, and has filled this position till the present, except for a year and a half. He was a member of the General Conference in Chicago, 1868, and took an active part in the controversy on districting the bishops, writing the minority report, embracing the principles which prevailed. In 1872, he represented the Georgia Conference in Brooklyn. By a Conference of 84 members he unanimously elected to the General Conference in Baltimore, 1876, and he has served on the general mission committee, the general committee on church extension, and was one of the Commissioners who formed the Cape May compact. He has published two small volumes, one of the Sabbath, and one in defense of the M.E. Church in the South. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the Ohio Wesleyan University.

A.M. Bough, a native of the State of New York, was admitted in the New York Conference of the ME Church in 1851. By division he became a member of the New York East Conference. He was sent as superintendent of missions to Montana Territory. Going to California in 1865, he was stationed in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento. In 1875, by division,he became a member of the Southern California Conference, and was appointed presiding elder of the Los Angeles district. The same year he visited Europe and the Holy Land.

Washington Willis Hitt, M.D., was born in 1801 in Maryland and died in Vincennes, Ind. August 19, 1876. By the assistance of his uncle, Daniel Hitt, one of the early book agents, he graduated M.D. in the University M.D. in the University of Maryland. He removed to Vincennes in 1829, and devoted his time closely to professional duties. He was early member of the M.E. Church, his parents also being active members; and from youth to old age he was deeply interested in all its enterprises. He was among the first to give $400 for the endowment of Indiana Asbury University, and for a number of years was an active trustee. He held prominent official situations in the church where he resided.

Daniel Hitt, an eminent minister, was born in Fauquier, VA. He entered the itinerant ministry in 1790, and traveled extensively over Western Pennsylvania, presiding in 1795 over a district embracing nearly the entire work west of Alleganies. In 1807 he became the traveling companion of Bishop Asbury. IN 1808 he was appointed one of the book agents, and discharged the duties of this office with great fidelity for eight years. Subsequently he was presiding elder of the Schuylkill, Monongahela, Potomac, and Carlisle districts. Some of these districts embrace more territory than do some of the Annual Conferences at present. He had excellent business habits, and was regarded as a safe counselor in Conference and in times of difficulty. He died in Washington Co., PA., in 1825.

Jotham Horton, a distinguished member of the New England Conference, twice elected a member of the General Conference, 1836 and 1840, - who filled important city stations in Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. He was an associate with Orange Scott and La Roy Sunderland in the first "withdrawal," in 1842, from the M.E. Church on account of slavery. He, however, returned to the old church in 1850, and ended his days among his old friends, in and around Boston, a few years afterward.

Phillip Gatch, one of the early Methodist pioneers, was born near Baltimore, March 2, 1751. He was awakened and converted in January, 1772. He had a fair education for that day, and notwithstanding his great reluctance he yielded to his conviction and entered the ministry. He attended the first Conference held in Philadelphia, in 1773, and receiving his appointment, subsequently traveled in New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia and preached with extraordinary success. He was the means, in the hand of Providence, in adding hundreds, probably thousands, to the church. In his early ministry he suffered great opposition and was the subject of severe persecution. Traveling between Bladensburg and Baltimore, he was arrested by a mob, who severely abused him, covered him with tar, and applying it to one of his naked eyeballs, produced severe pain, from which he never entirely recovered. After describing the scene, he says, "If I ever felt for the souls of men I did for theirs; when I got to my appointment the Spirit of the lord so overpowered me that I fell prostrate in prayer before him for my enemies. The Lord no doubt granted my request, for the man who put the tar and several others of the party were afterwards converted." The next morning a mob waylaid him on his way to another appointment, but by turning out of the road he avoided them. On another occasion he was seized by two stout men, and he says, "They caught hold of my arms and turned them in opposite directions with such violence that I thought my shoulders were dislocated and it caused me the severest pain I ever felt. The torture, I concluded, must resemble that of the rack. My shoulders were so bruised that they turned black and it was considerable time before I recovered the use of them." Notwithstanding this opposition he continued in him ministry for a number of years. Subsequently he removed to Ohio, some twenty miles east of Cincinnati, and was instrumental inlaying the foundation of Methodism in the West, but he never reentered the itinerancy. He died Dec. 28, 1835. His life has been written by Judge McLean.

William Hosmer, of the Genessee Conference, was for many years prominent in editorial labor. He was elected editor of the Northern Christian Advocate in 1848, and served until 1856. He was very active in the anti-slavery movement, and in 1856 became the editor of an independent paper. He was a member of General Conference from 1848 to 1856.

Miss. Frances E. Williard is a native of Rochester, N.Y., but her youth was spent principally in Wisconsin and Illinois. She was educated in what is now known as the Women's Department of the Northwestern Universities, at Evanston, Ill., After graduation she taught in Pittsburgh Female College, and was also preceptress of Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, and was subsequently called to a professorship in the Woman's College. Losing a beloved sister at the age of nineteen, she published a biography entitled "Nineteen Beautiful Years". In 1866 she was corresponding secretary of the Women's Centenary Association, that aided in building Heck Hall and a the Garrett Biblical Institute. In 1868, in company with Miss Jackson, of New Jersey, she sailed for Europe, and spent there about thirty months, including in her tour Egypt, the Holy Land, Greece, and Turkey. On her return, in 1871, she was elected president of the Woman's College, Evanston, and in 1873 was made Professor of the Estheties in the Northwestern University. Taking a deep interest in the temperance work, she resigned both positions and engaged in the crusade movement. She has been president of the Woman's Union in Chicago, and has lectured extensively, besides writing for various magazines. She has also labored in connection with Moody's great tabernacle meetings.

Mrs. Ann Wilkins was born in the State of New York in 1806, and was converted at a camp meeting at Sing Sing, Sept. 8, 1836. Shortly afterwards she offered herself as a teacher for Africa, and sailed from Philadelphia June 15, 1837, with the Rev. J.J. Matthias, who went out as a governor of Bassa Cove, and other missionaries. She remained in Africa until 1841, when she returned to recruit her impaired health. In January, 1842, she sailed again in company with other missionaries for Africa, where she remained until the fall of 1853, when her health was so broken that it was difficulty she reached her native land. Again recuperating, she sailed in 1854 with three young women to initiate them into the duties and habits of missionaries, and returned in 1857, having thus endured the climate of Africa and the self sacrifice of a missionary for more than eighteen years, and having crossed the Atlantic six times. After her return she accepted a position as an officer in a juvenile asylum, but head only just entered upon her duties when she was seized with congestion of the lungs, and in a few days died in great peace. She was an earnest, devoted Christian teacher, and was eminent for piety and self-sacrifice.

James D. Fry, A.M., professor in the Illinois Wesleyan University, was born May 16, 1834, in Chester County, Pa. He was educated partly at Oberlin, Ohio, but finished his collegiate course at the Ohio Wesleyan University. He joined the Ohio Conference, and after having spent several years in the pastoral relation and as financial agent of the Wesleyan University, he spent a year traveling in Europe. On his return he was elected to the professorship which he now holds.

Joseph Frye, a member of the Baltimore Conference, was born in Winchester, Va., in 1786. In 1809 he entered the Baltimore Conference, and filled various appointments until 1822, when, in consequence of a violent disease, he was placed in a superannuated relation. Reentering the itenerancy in 1824, he was stationed in Baltimore and vicinity, and was presiding elder of the Baltimore district. In 1836 he was superannuated. His life was an active and useful one, and he died in Baltimore in May, 1845. As a preacher he sometimes had remarkable power. The following incident is related by Rev. Alfred Griffith: " I cannot forbear here to relate an incident illustrative of his remarkable power in this regard, of which I was myself a witness, - it occurred in the Foundry church, in Washington, while the Baltimore conference was in session, and during the administration of General Jackson. Joseph Frye was the preacher, and the general was one of his audience. The discourse was founded on the incident in the evangelical history touching the Syrophenician woman. He threw himself into his subject - itself of of great beauty and tenderness-with such deep feeling and might power, that the effect was quite irresistible. The President sat so near me that I was able to watch the movements of his great and susceptible heart as the preacher advanced; and it really seemed as if the old man's spirit was stirred to its lowest depts. The tears ran down his face like a river, and indeed, in this respect, he only showed himself like almost everybody around him. When the service was closed, he moved up towards the altar with his usual air of dignity and earnestness, and requested an introduction to the preacher. Mr. Frye stepped down to receive the hand of the illustrious chief magistrate, but the general, instead of merely giving him his hand, threw his arms around his neck, and in no measured terms of gratitude and admiration, thanked him for his excellent discourse. The next day and invitation came to the whole Conference to pay a visit to the White House, and it was gratefully accepted; and the general received the members in the most respectful and cordial manner. After passing a very pleasant hour with him they were about to retire, when he proposed that they should no separate without devotional exercises. They first sang, and then one of the Conference led in prayer. The general fell upon his knees with the rest, and the prayer being a somewhat lively one, he shouted out his loud and hearty Amen at the close of almost every sentence. It was a scene which none who witnessed it would likely ever to forget."

Mrs. Susan M. Fry (maiden name Davidson, wife of the James D. Fry, A.M.) was born in Burlington, Ohio, February 4, 1841 and was educated in the Female Seminary at Oxford, Ohio, where she graduated at the age of eighteen and engaged in teaching drawing, painting and music. IN 1867, she was converted and joined the M.E. Church, and the following year was married in 1871 she began to work in the interests of the Ladies' and Pastors' Christian Union, and for the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and is at present secretary of its Illinois branch. She has visited many of the Conferences and addressed them in behalf of these societies. After having traveled with her husband in Europe, she was elected to the chair of the Belles-Lettres in the Illinois Wesleyan University in 1875, a position which she still holds. She has also been an occasional contributor to the church and other periodicals.

Christopher Frye, a member of the Baltimore Conference, was born in Winchester, VA., Feb. 13, 1778; was converted in 1796, and joined the Baltimore Conference in 1802. For thirty years he regularly filled important appointments in the Conference, and was presiding elder of the Greenbrier, Monongahela, Potomac, and Baltimore districts. After he had taken a superannuated relation he was settled on a farm near Leesburg, and while attending to a thrashing-machine he was caught by the machinery and one of his limbs was severely crushed. He was perfectly self-possessed, conversed with the utmost calmness in reference to his approaching end and died Sept. 18, 1835.

Samuel F. Garrott, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1831, removing to Missouri, became largely engaged in mercantile pursuits, using his wealth and social position to promote the cause of Christ and Methodism. He was elected by Lay Electoral Missouri Conference to the General Conference of 1872.

Mrs. Eliza Garrett, founder of the Garrett Biblical Institute, was born near Newburg, N.Y., March 5, 1805. Her maiden name was Clark. In 1825, she was married to Mr. Augustus Garrett, and, after residing in the east several years, they removed to the Mississippi valley, where the solved to devote a large portion of her property to ministerial education, and after leaving legacies to friends, gave the residue of her estate to found the Garrett Biblical Institute. She lived to see its site selected and the seminary commenced under Dr. Dempster. She died Nov. 23, 1855. She had been a consistent and devoted Christian for seventeen years, and she died in Christian triumph, exclaiming, with her latest breath, "Bless the Lord, O my soul!."

Freeborn Garrettson, a pioneer minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born Aug. 15, 1752, in Maryland. He was converted in 1775, in the twenty-third year of his age, and in the same year united with the Conference. In 1784, at the Christmas Conference, he was ordained elder by Dr. Coke, and in the same year volunteered as a missionary to Nova Scotia, where he remained about three years laboring with great success, leaving about 600 members in connection with the Methodist societies. In 1788 he was appointed a presiding elder to extend the borders of the church up the Hudson. He was assisted in this work by twelve young preachers. His labors extended as far as Lake Champlain, and into Eastern New York, Western Connecticut and Vermont. Besides these places he traveled extensively throughout the States of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. He was severely persecuted during the Revolutionary War and his life frequently threatened. He was superannuated in 1818. He died in New York City, Sept. 26, 1827, in the seventy-sixth year of his age, and the fifty-second year of his itinerant ministry. In his will he made provision for the annual support of a single preacher as a missionary, to be appointed by the New York Conference. He was one of the most efficient and laborious evangelists of his age and died lamented and honored by all the people.

Hon. Conduce H. Gatch, was born in Clermont Co., O., July 25, 1825, is the grandson of Rev. Phillip Gatch, one of the pioneers of American Methodism. He was converted while quite young, and has been active as a Sunday-school superintendent and trustee of the M.E. Church. Educated at Augusta College, Ky., he studied law, and commenced to practice in 1849, and occupied a high position at the bar, both in Ohio and at his present residence at Des Moines, Iowa, the past ten years. While a resident of his native State he was a member of the Ohio senate, prosecuting attorney, and subsequently was district attorney in Iowa, delegate to the first National Republican Convention in Philadelphia, in 1856, and was also captain and lieutenant-colonel in Ohio regiments during the Civil War. He represented the Des Moines Conference as a lay delegate to the General Conference of 1876.

Joseph Garside, a minister of the United Methodist Free Chruches, England, entered the itinerancy in 1844, and was president in 1874. Mr. Garside had labored hard for the establishemnt of Ashville College, a connectional school at Harrowgate, Yorkshire, for the education of ministers' and laymen's sons. He is secretary to the governing body.

James Wesley Horne, late principal of the Monrovia Academy, Liberia, was born on the island of Jamaica, W.I., March 24, 1823. He was graduated from Wesleyan University in 1852, and was appointed, in 1853, principal of the Monrovia Academy, Liberia, Africa, and institution under the charge of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He returned to the United States in 1858, and engaged in pastoral work in the New York East Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Joseph Horne, Esq., a merchant in Pittsburgh, is a native of Bedford Co., Pa., born Jan. 11, 1826. His ancestry were thoroughly Methodistic, his grandfather, who served in the Revolutionary War, being an active Methodist and a licensed exhorter. Mr. Horne was educated at the Bedford Classical Academy; studied medicine, but, because of ill health, abandoned the profession, and entered mercantile life. He located in Pittsburgh in 1847, and became a member of the Liberty Street church. He was one of the founders of Christ church in that city, and has been connected with all its interests, as class-leader, Sunday-school superintendent, and trustee. He is also a trustee of Alleghany College, of the Western University, and was for many years of the Pittsburgh Female college. He is at the head of one of the largest dry-goods and trimming houses west of the Alleghany Mountains, and has been liberal donor to educational and other enterprises.

Hon. P.B. Hopper, of the Methodist Protestant church, was born in Queen Anne's co., Md., Jan. 23, 1791, and was converted at a camp meeting when about nineteen years of age. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. Subsequently he was elected to the Maryland legislature, but holding his religion above political preferment, he soon began preaching in the local ranks. He was eminently successful in winning souls to Christ. In 1826, by appointment of the governor, he was made judge of the second judicial district. He held the position until the office was made elective, in 1850, when he stood for the suffrages of the district and was elected. He continued to hold the position until his death, March 28, 1858. At the instance of Rev. Ezekiel Cooper of the Philadelphia Conference, M.E. Church, he became a subscriber to The Wesleyan Repository, the first Reform paper. He embraced the principles of lay representation and subsequently wrote extensively in defense of them. He was one of the founders of the Methodist Protestant church. He was a member of its first Convention and frequently delegate to the Annual Conference and General Conference. He wrote voluminously for the Methodist Protestant under his initials, "P.B.H." He was very active in all the camp and protracted meetings of his vicinage. His hospitality was proverbial, not to ministers only, of whom he was very fond, but no passing traveler asked in vain for the protection of his roof. As attorney and judge, he was intelligent, honest and true to his convictions of law and right. He took a lively interest in the temperance cause, and was its foremost promoter.