Rusling, Sedgwick

Rusling, Sedgwick, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born near Hackettstown, N.J., April 24, 1799. He became an exhorter in 1826, and was licensed to preach in November of that year. In 1827 he was admitted on trial into the Philadelphia Conference. He labored actively until 1850, when he became supernumerary because of ill health. In 1852 he resumed regular work, but in 1855 became supernumerary again, filling, however, a vacancy in Elizabeth City. He died in Lawrenceville, Tioga Co., Pa.. March 7, 1876. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1876, p.47.