Smith, Anson C

Smith, Anson C., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Bridgewater, N.H., Dec. 20, 1810, and made profession of religion in 1831. He entered the ministry in 1834 as local preacher, and was admitted into the New Hampshire Conference in 1835, receiving ordination as deacon in 1837, and as elder in 1839. His health failed in 1859, and he died April 23, 1862. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1863, p. 103.