. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. I*ufylisli0d W^eekly, at ^ per annum. SamplG Copy sent on Jlppl/cof/on. CHICAGO, ILL., DECEMBER 17, 1896. No. 51. 36th REV. m. MAHIN, D. D. The subject of this sketch was born in Greene county, Ohio, Oct. 22, 1824. In the fall of 1828 his parents left Ohio and settled in the northern edge of Tippecanoe county, Ind., on the border of the Grand Prairie. At that time the land had not been surveyed, and was not in market. In that new country Mr. Mahin spent the next 13 years of his life, with only such facilities for education as so new a count
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. I*ufylisli0d W^eekly, at ^ per annum. SamplG Copy sent on Jlppl/cof/on. CHICAGO, ILL., DECEMBER 17, 1896. No. 51. 36th REV. m. MAHIN, D. D. The subject of this sketch was born in Greene county, Ohio, Oct. 22, 1824. In the fall of 1828 his parents left Ohio and settled in the northern edge of Tippecanoe county, Ind., on the border of the Grand Prairie. At that time the land had not been surveyed, and was not in market. In that new country Mr. Mahin spent the next 13 years of his life, with only such facilities for education as so new a country afforded. His parents were neuabers of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in 1839 he became a member of the same church ; and on Aug. 20, 1841, when he lacked two months of being 17 years old, he was given a license to preach, and recommended to the annual conference " as a suitable person to be admitted on trial in the traveling con- ;' On Oct. 12, following, he was admitted and ap- pointed to a circuit—the youngest man, so far as he knows, ever admitted into an annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. Two years afterward, on his 19th birth- day, he was ordained a deacon—the youngest man on whose head a Methodist bishop ever laid his hands, officially. Dr. M.'s education was obtained almost exclusively with- out teachers, and by private study. He has filled the office of Presiding Elder nearly 11 years, and occupied some of the best pulpits in his conference. After delivering a lecture, or thesis, before the faculty and students of Indiana Asbury University (now De Pauw), in 1876, that institution con- ferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. For eight consecutive years Dr. Mahin was Secretary of of his conference, and would have been longer if he had not been put into the presiding eldership. In 1868, he was a member of the General Conference of his church. After 54 years of active official duty in the ministry, he has retired fr
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