Soule, Justus

Soule, Justus, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Columbia County, N.Y., Sept. 1, 1807. He was licensed to preach in 1835, and was admitted into the Oneida Conference on trial in 1837. He received his ordination as deacon in 1839, and elder in 1841. He was transferred to the. Peoria (afterwards the Central Illinois) Conference in 1856. He died while laboring at Molhle, Oct. 25, 1859. "He was a useful minister and a faithful pastor." See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1860, p. 259.