Westgate, George Lewis

Westgate, George Lewis a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born at Fall River, Massachusetts, April 12, 1844. He graduated from Wesleyan University, Connecticut, in 1865; studied two years in Union Theological Seminary, N.Y., and in 1867 joined the Providence Conference, in which and afterwards (1874) in the New York East Conference he occupied important stations until his election, in 1880, as professor of social science in his alma mater, a position which he retained until his death, June 28, 1885. See Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, 1883, page 212; Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1886, page 83.