Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1919 — REV. ABBOTT RETURNS TO PORTLAND [ARTICLE]

REV. ABBOTT RETURNS TO PORTLAND

Rev. J. T. Abbott, brother of Mesdames Ben D. McColly, Ko rah Daniels and Bowman Switzer, left this morning for his home in Portland,. Oregon. He came east to attend the annual convention of the National Sunday School Association of the Methodist Church. He is the delegate from the Northwest. Rev. Abbott was some thirty-five years ago recorder of this couhtyj" succeeding our estimable citizen, Harvey W. Wood. From this work he entered the Methodist ministry, his first charge being Morocco. - He has risen in that profession and is now one of the leading men in Methodism.