Bellman Henry Wise

Bellman Henry Wise a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Lycoming County, Pa., March 11, 1824. He experienced religion when about sixteen; soon afterwards received license to preach, and in 1849 entered the Baltimore Conference. His health failed in 1853, and in 1856 he took a local relation. He studied law and practiced it until 1859, when he again entered the itinerancy, and toiled cheerfully and with great energy until his decease, in 1860. Mr. Bellman was an earnest, faithful, exemplary Christian. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church South, 1860, p. 238.