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Minutes of the Michigan Annual Conference. 1915 Minutes of the Michigan annual conference. Methodist Episcopal Church. [s.l.] http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015071476579 Public Domain, Google-digitized http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use#pd-google We have determined this work to be in the public domain, meaning that it is not subject to copyright. Users are free to copy, use, and redistribute the work in part or in whole. It is possible that current copyright holders, heirs or the estate of the authors of individual portions of the work, such as illustrations or photographs, assert copyrights over these portions. Depending on the nature of subsequent use that is made, additional rights may need to be obtained independently of anything we can address. The digital images and OCR of this work were produced by Google, Inc. (indicated by a watermark on each page in the PageTurner). Google requests that the images and OCR not be re-hosted, redistributed or used commercially. The images are provided for educational, scholarly, non-commercial purposes. BISHOP WILLIAM BURT, D. D. LL. D. MINUTES OF THE MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE Methodist Episcopal Church EIGHTIETH SESSION HASTINGS, MICH., SEPTEMBER 8-13, 1915. BISHOP WILLIAM BURT, D. D., LL. D., President. GEORGE A. BROWN, Secretary. Volume XX Number 4 OFFICIAL RECORD Price Twenty-five Cents LANSING, MICHIGAN WYNKOOP HALLENBECK CRAWFORD CO., STATE PRINTERS 1915 CONTENTS Page Conference Proceedings 5io Anniversaries and Special Gatherings «» Appointments 542 Certificate of Ordination |J8 Daily Journal 515 Disciplinary Questions M» Conference Register 5JM Boards 604 Officers of the Conference oj» Officers of Conference Societies 506 Miscellaneous 508 Standing Committees 508 — Conference Roll Alphabetical '™| Conference Rules 5J8 Examinations 61" Historical: Record of Conference Sessions j*Ao Deceased Members of Conference 609 Lay Electoral Conference Proceedings ^ 620 Memoirs: Rev. Edmund V. Armstrong jjjj' Rev. Francis A. Chapman 590 Rev. Thomas H. M Coghlan •>•« Rev. Frederic ( 'oe Demorest 594 Rev. Howard Fisher 596 Rev. William J. Hathaway fJg Rev. John Hoyt 598 Rev. John W. Miller 599 Rev. Henry J. Nichols 80J Rev. Allan M. Wightman 602 Mrs. J. R. Howen 804 Mrs. E. L. Kellogg 604 Mrs. D. R. Latham 80a Mrs. Geo. D. Lee 606 Mrs. A.J. Eldred 606 Mrs. Carl Seipp 807 Missionary Appropriations. Home 5SO Missionary Askings. Official Home 551 Re-incorporation Certificate 56a Reports of District Superintendents: _fl_ Albion District. Hugh Kennedy JM Rig Rapids District, C. S. Wheeler JJg Grand Rapids District, J. C. Floyd f*' Grand Traverse District , W. F. Kendrick sow Kalamazoo District, J. R. T. Lathrop 5/0 Lansing District, W. II. Phelps *Jf Niles District, W. P. French 574 Reports of Officers: Board of Stewards 5SJ Treasurer of Conference 5W Treasurer Board of Trustees 557 Treasurer Clark Memorial Home 560 Reports of Boards, Committees and Agents: Business . 576 Clark Memorial Home 5/6 Conference Claimants Committee 57/ Deaconess Board 57b Education 579 Evangelism 579 Field Secretary Conference Claimants Endowment Fund 580 Field Secretary Supply Pastors Endowment Fund 581 Finance 58; Literature £°* Parsonage and Furniture 583 Resolutions and General Reference 58J Reforms 584 Sunday Schools and Youn^ Peoples Work 585 586 Social Service ->sr, Visitors to Albion College Statistical Tables: Statistician 623 Treasurer 655 I. CONFERENCE REGISTER FOR 1915-1916 I. OFFICERS OF THE CONFERENCE. President. Bishop William Burt, D. D., LL. D., Buffalo, N. Y. Secretary. George A. Brown, Lyons, Mich. Assistant Secretaries. J. R. Wooton, Ray W. Merrill, F. M. Clough, C. J. Kruse, Cecil Pollock. Assistant Secretary for Conference Claimants. D. C. Riehl, Caledonia, Mich.- Statistician. A. T. Cartland, Manistee, Mich. Assistant Statisticians. C. A. Whaley, W. B. Fallis, E. R. Cockrun, E. K. Lewis, H. B. Johnson, A. R. Elliott, G. E. Wright, F. W. Nickel. Treasurer. G. B. Fleming, Grand Rapids, Mich. Assistant Treasurers. C. S. Risley, H. W. Ellinger, H. E. Walker, R. E. Showerman, B. F. Wade, D. A. Rood, A. W. Baker. Biographical Secretary. O. F. Bulman, Union City, Mich. Secretary of Transportation. Russell H. Bready, Hastings, Mich. 504 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1915 District Transportation Secretaries. Albion District R. B. Cilley Big Rapids District S. W. Large Grand Rapids District R. C. Lord Grand Traverse District H. E. Walker Kalamazoo District J. W. Foy Lansing District W. S. Phillips Niles District T. P. Bennett District Missionary Secretaries. Albion District R. J. Slee Big Rapids District J. B. Pinckard Grand Rapids District Thomas Laity Grand Traverse District M. W. Duffey Kalamazoo District F. M. Taylor Lansing District H. V. Wade Niles District N. A. McCune District Superintendents. Albion District Hugh Kennedy Big Rapids District Clark S. Wheeler Grand Rapids District J. C. Floyd Grand Traverse District W. F. Kendrick Kalamazoo District J; R. T. Lathrop Lansing District W. H. Phelps Niles District W. P. French II. CONFERENCE BOARDS. Board of Trustees. For three years —W. M. Puffer, E. G. Lewis, M. M. Callen. For two years —W. P. French, W. I. Cogshall, John Graham. For one year —R. S. McGregor, R. E. Meader, C. S. Wheeler. President—M. M. Callen; Vice President —R. S. McGregor. Secretary —R. E. Meader. Treasurer— E. J. Phelps, Kalamazoo. Assistant Treasurer—Clare Gibson, Kalamazoo. Field Secretary —L. E. Lennox. Investment Committee —M. M. Callen, John Graham, E. G. Lewis. Advisory Members —M. J. Bigelow, E. J. Phelps; Secretary of Committee, L. E. Lennox. 1915] CONFERENCE REGISTER FOR 1915-1916 505 Board of Trustees of Clark Memorial Home. Emily J. Clark, Anna Bissell, J. C. Floyd, John Graham, John Sheehan, Wm. S. Graham, Elvln Swarthout, John C. Gulliford, Lawton L. Sklllman. Board of Stewards. Chairman— D. C. Riehl. Secretary —J- C. DeVinney. Treasurer —J. B. Peatling. To expire 1916— J. B. Peatling, N. A. McCune, J. C. Devinney, M. W. Duffey. To expire 1917— C. E. Davis, John Sheehan, D. D. King, A. W. Mumford To expire 1918— J. H. Westbrook, W. A. Exner, H. V. Wade, R. B. Cilley. Board of Conference Relations. Term to expire 1916— L. DeLamarter, H. L. Potter, W. W. Lamport. Term to expire 1917 —I. T. Weldon, P. J. Maveety, E. A. Armstrong. Term to expire 1918— N. L. Bray, W. I. Cogshall, R. A. Wright. President —Louis DeLamarter, Secretary —N. L. Bray. BOARD OF EXAMINERS. Chairman —Charles Nease. Secretary —John R. Wooton. Registrar—F. H. Clapp. A. F. Nagler. L. H. Manning. W. W. McKee. M. L. Fox. C. E. Hoag. J. B. Pinckard. R. A. Wright. J. T. LeGear. W. H. Irwin. R. J. Slee. John Zedler. S. W. Large. E. O. Mather. P. R. Norton. Board of Control of the Michigan Training School and Aldrich Memorial Deaconess Home. To expire 1916 —Chas. Nease, Edwin Stokoe, Mrs. J. C. Rickenbaugh. To expire 1917 —J. C. Devinney, John W. Wilson, Mrs. Walter Shultus. To expire 1918— J. C. Floyd, F. H. Clapp, Mrs. F. C. Steglick. Board of Home Missions and Church Extension. The District Superintendents. Ministers— W. I. Cogshall, E. A. Armstrong, J. C. Willetts, Alfred Way, R. J. Slee, A. T. Cartland, A. H. Smith. Laymen —A. N. Lawrason, Elk Rapids; E. E. Horner, Eaton Rapids; W. P. Harvey, Benton Harbor; G. L. Hicks, Allegan; Geo. Dockery, Roekford; J. A. Damon, Mt. Pleasant; Rowland Douglass, Traverse City. 606 MICHIGAN ANNUAL CONFERENCE [1915 Board of Foreign Missions. President—R. E. Meader, Coldwater. Vice-President—Delos Fall, Albion. Secretary —R. W. Cooper, Lansing. The District Superintendents. The District Epworth League Presidents. Sunday School Superintendents —J. H. Bootes, Jackson; B. J. Ford, Big Rapids; R. W. Cooper, Lansing; Edwin Stokoe, Grand Rapids; John E. Fox, Kalamazoo; Dr. A. M. Wilkinson, Charlevoix; W. R. Stevens, St. Joseph. Also— S. J. Throp, Big Rapids; W. A. Sheldon, Kalamazoo; R. A. Hawley, Ionia; J. P. Purdy, Grand Rapids, C. L. Smith, Petoskey; E. S. Hotchin, Constantine. Board of Church Location. Albion District— A. W. Mumford, C. R. Wallace, A. W. Wallis, David Evans, S. J. Gier, E. E. Page. Big Rapids District— M. L. Gardner, J. C. Holden, C. W. Campbell, B. I. Webster, J. C. Cook, Thomas Cox. Grand Rapids District—E. G. Lewis, J. C. DeVinney, Geo. Spicer, Geo. B. Towner, Geo. F. Francombe, D. G. Clark. Grand Traverse District—W. P. Mosher, A. B. Bartlett, Claude Cole, J. W. Matthewson, D. A. Rood, W. W. Lamport. Kalamazoo District— F. M. Taylor, J. B. Peatling, G. A. Buell, G. L. Hicks, M. J. Bigelow, H. Sherwood. Lansing District—W. E. Doty, G. W. Maxwell, C. L. Beebe, Edson Swarth- out, F. L. Convis, Richard Scott. Niles District—A. A. Geiger, F. M. Cosner, H. B. Laberteaux, C. B. Schrontz, E. E. Alliger, G. L. Jordan. III. OFFICERS OF CONFERENCE SOCIETIES. Epworth League. President —T. G. R. Brownlow. Vice-President —F. Maynard. Secretary —W. J. Coates. Treasurer—W. A. Exner. Freedmen's Aid Society. President —J. B. Peatling. Secretary— C. H. Palmatier. Treasurer—F. L. Niles. Temperance Society. President—H. E. Walker. Secretary— F. M. Clough. Treasurer— F. G. Wright. 1915] CONFERENCE REGISTER FOR 1915-1916 5<.7 Conference Historical Society. President —James Hamilton. Vice-President—J. K. Stark. Secretary —W. I. Cogshall. Treasurer—Isaiah Wilson. Veterans of the Cross Fellowship. President—N. L. Bray. Vice-President—G. W. Goslin. Chaplain —G. A. Buell. Secretary-Treasurer —G. L. Mount. Ministers Wives Association. President—Mrs. W. F. Kendrick. 1st Vice-President—Mrs. W. M. P. Jerrett. 2nd Vice-President—Mrs. Russell Bready. Secretary —Mrs. T. G. R. Brownlow. Treasurer—Mrs. John A. Bready. Local Preachers Association. President —D. C. Crawford. Secretary —A. C. Parsons. Treasurer—L. E. Holmes. Trustees: Term to expire 1916 —C. E. Maltman, A. E. Wynne. Term to expire 1917 — O. C. Parmeter, George R. Jackson. Term to expire 1918 —J. H. Cornelius, J.
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