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FLETCHER, Rev. Ashton Jr.

There are two of this name - father and son. The son, I believe, is here intended.

The son is a very young man - not, probably, above nineteen or twenty, if up to that; nevertheless, if I am not greatly mistaken, he had labored the whole or part of the preceeding year on a circuit under a chairman - perhaps the circuit to which he was about to be appointed for 1854-1855, the Nelson.

He was the son of a good local preacher, who was destined to offer the evening of his days for usefulness; like his father he was a native of England, and by all who witnessed his juvenile efforts, pronounced exceedingly gifted and promising as a speaker. But he was destined to labor only during this year on a circuit.

The next two years, being still very young, he attended Victoria College as a Conference student, at which institution, I believe, he graduated. But while passing through College, his views became altered about his vocation for life, giving up the study of theology for the study of law, in which profession he is reported very successful, while still connected with the Church of his childhood and his choice.

Seeing "he went not with us to the work," we can afford him no larger niche in the temple of fame.

...from the minutes of the 1854 Wesleyan Methodist Conference in Toronto C.W.


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