Easter, John (2)
Easter, John
a distinguished Methodist Episcopal minister. Dates of his early life are wanting. He joined the itinerancy in 1782, and located in 1792. His ministerial career was “brilliant,” and “his success almost unparalleled.” In 1787, on Brunswick Circuit, Va., eighteen hundred souls were added to the Church under his ministry. William M’Kendree and Enoch George, afterwards bishops in the Church, were brought to God through his preaching. See Wakeley’s Heroes of Methodism, p. 219; Life and Times of Jesse Lee, p. 356 et al.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Easter, John (2)
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Norfolk Co., England, September 21, 1800, and joined the Wesleyan Methodists in 1824. In 1830 he emigrated to America, and settled in Geneva, N.Y. He entered the itinerancy in 1832, and took a superannuated relation in 1838. His death was caused by a rocket, at Geneva, on July 4, 1842. Mr. Easter was a man of great worth, and a useful and beloved preacher. Minutes of Conferences, 3:345.