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FORMAN, Rev. Richard John

In 1874 Rev. John Carroll writes:

"Rev. Richard John Forman, was destined to prove on of the most guietly continuous laborers, - one of the wisest and best superintendents, - one of the best financiers, - and one of the soundest, wearing, feeding, satisfying preachers in the body. Our being able to say so much, at the outset, will awaken the inquiry as to his appearance, age, and antecedents up to the time when presented to the Conference as a candidate for the ministry of the Church. We are glad we have authentic data for satisfying these resonable inquires.

(1854) Rev. Forman was then a young man of twenty four years of age, medium-sized, rather tall than short, spare but muscular, dark complexioned and eduring. Just the sort of man to work long and efficiently without breaking up. He was of English parentage, but born in Radnorshire, Wales, November 19th. 1830. His parents were religious, and he himself was convered to God in Dudley, under the ministrations of the Rev. Samuel Hulme, New Connexion minister, which people he joined at the early age of eleven years.

The family came to Canada in 1845, when he was a youth of fifteen years, and settled in Pickering, near Toronto. He joined the Wesleyans at Duffin's Creek, and became a leader and Sabbath-school superintendent, and soon commenced preaching in a local sphere. The Markham Quarterly Meeting proposed him to the District Meeting as a candidate for the ministry, where he was examined and accepted at Toronto in 1853.

Charges: 1853 received on trial, 1854-1855 Bradford, 1855 Thorold, 1857-1858 Nissouri (London), 1860 Nichol (Wellington Co.), 1861 Eramosa (Wellington Co.), 1861-1864 Nichol/Elora/Pilkington/Peel (Wellington Co.), 1865 Blenheim (Oxford Co.), 1871-1872 London Tp. (Middlesex Co.)


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