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Michigan By Rev. S. N. Griffith
Some years subsequent to 1832, Samuel Lord, desiring to give to Rev. Franklin "Gage some token of respect, went to Kalamazoo and bought cloth for a pair of pants and made a present of the same to Rev. F. Gage ; the cloth | cost $5. Mr. Lord drew corn from Gourdneck, twelve or fourteen miles distant, to Kalamazoo, and sold it for ten cents per bushel to pay for the cloth for the pants. In February, 1833, Rev. J. T. Robe held a protracted meeting near Judge Harrison's corners, which resulted in the conversion of some fifteen persons who were formed into a class together with Several persons whose names were collected by Rev. E. Felton and left to be arranged into a class by his successor. This class consisted of Bazil Harrison, leader, recently deceased, being over 103 years old when he died, and others, among whom were Darius Wells and wife. The house of Darius Wells was one of the early homes and places of the Methodist itinerant preachers. Bro. Wells was recording steward, and in after years
was long a class leader, and his wife, sister Mary Wells, was one of the1 mothers in our Methodist Israel.
EARLY HISTORY OF METHODISM
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