Lewis Hartsough

HARTSOUGH, Lewis. b. Ithaca, New York State, 31 August 1828; d. Mount Vernon, Iowa, 1 January 1919. He was educated at Cazenovia College, near Syracuse. He became a Methodist Episcopal Church minister, serving in New York State (Oneida, though presumably not the utopian community there). He then travelled to the west, becoming Superintendent of the Utah Mission, and then working in Wyoming. In 1872 he moved to Epworth, Iowa (a settlement named after the birthplace of the Wesley* brothers), and in 1874 to the North-West Iowa Conference (the statement in JJ, p. 1645, that he was living in Mount Vernon, Indiana, is incorrect: see Robert Guy McCutchan* in Hymnary.org). He lived during his final...