. Journal of the ... Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. me, 1015West Governor Street, Springfield, Illinois, at 5:35Monday morning, March 23, 1925, at the age of 76. In 1856 he came with his parents to Illinois andsettled near Clinton. He was the oldest son andthe second child in a family of eight children. InMarch, 1868, the father died and the burden of car-ing for and educating this large family fell largelyupon the shoulders of this man not yet twentyyears of age. He was educated in the public schools and inthe Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington. W. A. S
. Journal of the ... Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. me, 1015West Governor Street, Springfield, Illinois, at 5:35Monday morning, March 23, 1925, at the age of 76. In 1856 he came with his parents to Illinois andsettled near Clinton. He was the oldest son andthe second child in a family of eight children. InMarch, 1868, the father died and the burden of car-ing for and educating this large family fell largelyupon the shoulders of this man not yet twentyyears of age. He was educated in the public schools and inthe Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington. W. A. Smith was converted February 6th, 1866,at Rucker Chapel, near Clinton, in a revival con-ducted by Rev. J. C. Rucker and was licensed to preach by the QuarterlyConference, University Charge, afterwards Grace Church, Bloomington, inMay, 1870, and ordained Local Deacon by Bishop Ames at the Conferencesession in Springfield in the fall of 1875. He entered Illinois Wesleyan University in 1869 and was graduatedwith the highest honors as Valedictorian of his class, receiving the degree. 118 ILLINOIS ANNUAL CONFERENCE 1925 of A. B. in 1875. His Masters degree was given him in 1878 and thehonorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1900. He was also elected a mem-ber of the general Conference the same year. Dr. Smith entered the Illinois Annual Conference of the MethodistEpiscopal Church in Paris, Illinois, in the fall of 1876, being assigned toIlliopolis for his first charge. Succeeding charges were Taylorville, Carlin-ville. North Street, Danville, changed to First Church, when the newchurch built under his pastorate was dedicated in September, 1888, GraceChurch, Bloomington; Centenary Church, Jacksonville; First Church, Cham-paign; Mattoon, Hoopeston, Lincoln and Virden. In all these charges he conducted a revival each year and nearly alwaysacted as his own evangelist. Over two thousand conversions and hundredsof revived and reconsecrated lives under his pastorate, bear witness thathe fe
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