Excerpt from Journal and Reports of the Forty-First Annual Session of the Detroit Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church: Held at the Garland St. M. E. Church, Flint, Mich., Sept. 9-14, 1896 His early educational privileges, consisting of the district schools, the Ypsilanti High School, and a few months at Albion College, were well improved, and he taught school several terms in Michigan and about a year in Tennessee previous to entering the ministry. Like his Master, he wrought at carpentry when not engaged in teaching, and in later years this was Often serviceable to him in building and improving church property. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.