1821-1850
Adoniram Judson Blake
Methodist Pastor Ohio OH/OH
The archives of Ohio United Methodism help tell the story of Adoniram Judson Blake. These documents state that he was in the Pittsburgh Conference in 1847 and was assigned to Brownsville in Licking County just west of Zanesville. The next year, 1848, he was assigned to Richmond in Jefferson County on the far eastern side of Ohio north of Steubenville. Two years later in 1850, he is listed as Adoniram J. Blake, minister at the Methodist Church, West Chester in Tuscarawas County.
Rev. A. J. Blake was born October 7, 1821, and was converted to God and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in February, 1838, under the ministry of Rev. A. M. Brown of the Erie Conference. He was received on trial by the Pittsburg Conference in June, 1847. He was appointed to the following circuits: Brownsville, Richmond, Washington and Cambridge, and Westchester, where he ended his labours and his life. He died of pulmonary consumption, December 20, 1850, in the thirtieth year of his age.
As a Christian, he was ardent and sincere; as a minister, he was eccentric, laborious, and useful. Stricken down in the high places of the field, he conquered as he fell, and we think of him not as dead but as enjoying the higher life of heaven.[1]
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[1] Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for the year, 1851 (New York: Published by G. Lane and L. Scott, 200 Mulberry Street, Joseph Longking, Printer, 1851), p. 601.