Preface
THIS volume was prepared in accordance with the following resolution, preceded by a highly complimentary preamble, passed by my brethren of the Cincinnati Conference at their session held in Hillsboro in 1884:
"Resolved, That this Conference of brother ministers affectionately and earnestly urge Brother Fee to prepare for publication a volume on the Early History of Methodism in Southern Ohio Northern Kentucky, and West Virginia, embracing such incidents and personal reminiscences as in his judgment he may deem best fitted to interest and profit the Church."
It is an imperfect record of over fifty years spent in the ministry. With the humblest views of myself and my work, I affectionately dedicate it to young ministers and Christian helpers whose sympathies and co-operation have been a benediction to me in my pastoral and evangelistic labors.
I desire to express my grateful acknowledgments for valuable suggestions to Captain Jerome H. Fee, of Adrian, Michigan, and especially to
/ Miss Ada Thomas, of Piqua, for taking down and
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putting into typewriting these pages from my dictation. Without her aid I should never have been able to accomplish the work. My thanks are also due to the friends who have kindly rendered me assistance in revising the copy for the press.
And now, as my sun of life is going down behind the western hills, I bring this bundle of sheaves, gathered from the harvest-fields of Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky, and lay them reverently at the Master's feet.
WILUAM I. FEE.
PlQUA, O., APRII,, 1896.
Chapter I. Page
The Fee Family— Birth— Younger Years, 9
Chapter II
My First Circuit: Georgetown — Batavia. 1842-1843.67 CHAPTER III.
Eaton Circuit — Putnam — Zanesvieee. 1844-1847, . . . 134 CHAPTER IV.
West Virginia — Kentucky. 1847-1851, 210
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
Christie Chapee, Cincinnati. 1860-1862, 402
CHAPTER X.
Contents.
CHAPTER XI.
Page.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
Piqua. 1S70-1S73, 525
CHAPTER XIV.
WESLEY Chapel, Cincinnati. 1873-1876, 545
CHAPTER XV.
Greenfield— Ripley District. 1876-1881, 573
CHAPTER XVI.
South Charleston— York Street, Cincinnati. 1881- 1887, 614
CHAPTER XVII.
McKendree Church, Cincinnati — Grace Church, Springfield — Grace Church, Piqua. 1887-1892 . . 633
CHAPTER XVIII.
Miscellaneous, 647
ILLUSTRATIONS.
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William I. FEE, D. D., Frontispiece.
The Fee Homestead, 16
Bishop R. S. Foster, 568
Arthur Fee, Joseph Frambes, John Pattison, John S.
Johnson, 648
Ralph L,otspEich, , . 661
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