Banghart, George

Banghart, George a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born near Bridgeville, N. J., March 10, 1782. He experienced religion in his youth, received license to preach in 1810, and in 1812 entered the Philadelphia Conference. In 1837 he became a member of the newly formed New Jersey Conference, and in 1856, on the division of the conference, he fell into the Newark Conference, in whose active ranks he served till about 1861, when.he became superannuated. He died Feb. 9, 1870. As a preacher, Mr. Banghart was earnest and pathetic; as a pastor, laborious and sympathetic. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1870, p. 70.