Larmon Chatfield, Presiding Elder of Grand River District, Michigan Conference.
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My first license was dated at Gustavus, O., May 29, 1844." In the fall of 1845 Brother Whitmore came to Michigan, and was appointed to Flat River as junior preacher, with Rev. Butit was not till four years later that I consented to take license as an exhorter. My early religious life was somewhat unsteady, but at the age of sixteen I was renewed in the spirit of my mind, and then began to feel that God had called me to the work of the ministry. He says: "My father literally took me up in his arms and carried me to the altar, and both father and mother knelt by me and prayed for my conversion, I then united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Even at the early age of seven he began to be serious, and at thirteen, under the preaching of Rev. He soon perceived the necessity of experimental religion. His parents were faithful in their religious duties, and to the hal- lowed influences of the home altar Brother Whitmore attributed his earliest religious impressions. Afterward he attended Allegheny College preparatory department for a short time, but too close application affected his health, and he was obliged to discontinue his studies. His early educational advanatages were limited to the common school of his township.
His parents moved to Ohio when he was nine years old. His mother was of Irish and Italian descent. His funeral occurred at Grand Blanc on Tuesday, March 22, and was attended by a large concourse of people.īrother Whitmore was born in Shelby, Genesee County, N.Y., September 28, 1823. Ignace, died peacefully at his hoome on the morning of March 19, 1887.
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