Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1902 — Minister With a Record. [ARTICLE]

Minister With a Record.

The minister who in 1901 claimed the record with refrence to the grand total of marriages and funerals connected with a long minister’s life is Rev. J. H. Haughey of Mason City, thirty miles north of Pekin, 111. During his career as a preacher, a period of forty years, he has married 1,537 couples and conducted 1,500 funerals.