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-oAutobiography
I was born in Corunna, Shiawassee county,
1 ichi gan, August 10, 1866, the youngest son of
illiam B., and Charlotte Mudge Ellsworth.
parents came from
My
ew York state and settled in
Shiawassee county early in the 1850s.
· y father was born in New York state in 1830
and died on the farm where he had lived, in 1885,
aged 56 years •
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mother was born in New York state in 1835,
died at Bancroft,
~ ichigan,
July 20, 1895.
"y gr and parents, John and Sarah Ellsworth,
both came from New York state.
I was educated in the school near my boyhood
home in Shiawassee county.
I was married to · iss Eva . • By am November 20,
1889, and lived on the farm until 1903.
There our
two children were born: Hazel Vivian, who married
Clifford E. Carr of Detroit,
[1chigan; and Joyce
"·! arion , who married Roy L. Nichols of Richland,
Michi gan.
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I was converted in 1894, in meetings held by
Reverend
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assi&ted by Dewey Bryant, singer.
~ ain,
To my mother I owe much for the conviction that led
Those convictions were deepened
me to Christ.
under the ministry of F. E. Morehouse;.
A new love
came into my life for the things I once cared nothing for.
I began to study the Bible and do some
vhristian work.
L. B.
~ ~ilson
I was ordained Deacon by Bishop
at Charlotte in September, 1905, and
Elder by Bishop David H. Moore in Grand Rapids,
in September, 1909.
In the fall · of 1903, I was appointed by
Dr.
• Callen as pastor at Kendall, Van Buren
county, and preached there two years; Parkville,
1905; Fulton, 1907; Richland, 1911; Oshtemo, 1914,
and including Comstock 1918 and 1919; Battle Creek
Circuit, 1921; Athens, 1929.
I also served North-
west Oshtemo part of one year and preached at
Bedford a year and a half.
I moved to Battle
reek in 1935, there to live until called to hi gher
service a bove.
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