Williams, John Aetheruld, Dd

Williams, John Aetheruld, D.D.

a Canadian Methodist minister, was born at Carmarthen, Wales, December 19, 1817. In 1833 he removed to Canada, and in 1850 entered the ministry of the Methodist Church. In 1874 he was elected president of the London Conference, and fraternal delegate to the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1876. In 1883 he was president of the United General Conference for the Uhioni of the Methodist Churches in Canada. In 1884 he was the representative of the Methodist Church of Canada at the Centennial Conference in Baltimore. In the following year he was appointed general superintendent of his church. He died December 17, 1890. See Simpson's Cyclopaedia of Methodism,. page 950.