Barnes, John (2)

Barnes, John a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born Jan. 16, 1812. He became a Christian at the age of eighteen; soon after began a course of study at the Oneida Conference Seminary, and in 1840 entered the Oneida Conference. After several years of faithful labor, failing health obliged him to retire from active work, and he died March 24, 1847. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1847, p. 146.