John Davenport Blackwell

Birth	17 JUN 1822
Religion	1846
Religion	1847
Religion	1851
Religion	1852
Religion	1853-1854
Religion	1857-1858
Religion	1859
Religion	1860-1863
Religion	1862
Religion	1865-1866
Religion	1868
Religion	1868-1869
Religion	1872-1873
Religion	1878
Religion	1880
Religion	1883-1884
Death	26 JUN 1887
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He entered the ministry in 1846, in the Virginia Annual Conference.  His labors have been devoted to the pastoral work in the itinerant minstry.  He was elected to the last three General Conferences, and was a delegate to the Christmas Centennial Conference at Baltimore in 1884.  His present appointment is Monumental Church, Portsmouth, VA.  He is a native of the "Old Dominion" and a Virginia delegate.  He wrote one or two volumes.  He has declined several calls to the presidency of colleges, preferring the itinerancy. Read More