Cady, Lawton

Cady, Lawton a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Killingly, Conn., July 24,1796. He was converted in the South in 1820, where he spent some years amid slave institutions, which he thoroughly abhorred; and in 1842 he joined the Providence Conference, wherein he served the Church until his death, June 18, 1871. Mr. Cady was an excellent man, a thorough Methodist, a lucid, accurate, logical, argumentative preacher, amiable, and a favorite among his acquaintances. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1872, p. 37.