Born at Elsham, England, March 13, 1839, and died in Long Beach, California, April 18, 1927. He with his parents migrated to America in 1853 and located in Lyons, Iowa. He enlisted in Company I, Second Iowa Infantry, as fifth corporal May 5, 1861. He was promoted to second sergeant July 28, 1861; to first sergeant April 1, 1862; to captain November 24, 1802, and was mustered out at the expiration of his service May 26, 1804. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1867 and held pastorates at Summer Hill, Mill Rock, Maquoketa, Delmar, Wyoming, Toledo, Nashua, Janesville, Plainfield, and Iowa Falls. In 1883 he was elected representative from Bremer County and served in the Twentieth General Assembly. He was presiding elder in the Dubuque District of his church in 1884-90, in the Decorah District in 1890-96, and again in the Dubuque District in 1898-1904. He was a delegate to General Conference in 1888 and again in 1900. Retiring from the ministry in 1904, be was a resident of Decorah from that date until 1918, then spent three years at Cedar Falls, after which be removed to Long Beach. He was an able minister and a popular man.