Bonar, William

Bonar, William, a Free-will Baptist minister, was born in Coshocton County, O., Nov. 4, 1814. and removed with his parents to Illinois in 1842. He was converted in 1850, united with a Methodist Church in Burns, Il. and was a licensed preacher for a short time in that denomination, but afterwards joined a Free-will Baptist Church. The Walnut Creek Quarterly Meeting licensed him Dec. 24, 1852, and one year later he was ordained. He labored chiefly as an evangelist, and for the most of the time within tile quarterly meeting from which he had received his license and ordination. His last charge was with the Mineral and Boyd churches. He died at Kewanee, Aug. 11, 1875. See Morning Star, Sept. 15, 1875. (J. C. S.)