Ezra Healy (March 1790 - ?) was a circuit rider in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Healy was born in Shoreham, Vermont.[1] He grew up in Potsdam, New York. He was licensed to exhort in Madrid, New York in 1810.[2] He began working as a local preacher in 1816. He was accepted on trial as a circuit rider by the Genesee conference in 1821, and assigned to the St. Lawrence circuit.[3] In 1822, he was assigned to the Rideau circuit.[4] While on the circuit, he received a letter from circuit rider Renaldo M. Everts, imploring him to organise a circuit around Morristown, Upper Canada. Healy headed south to the area, and organised a new circuit, which was named the Indian River circuit.[5] The circuits saw a net increase of one hundred thirteen people.[6] In 1823, he was assigned to the Rideau circuit, where he rode alongside Charles Wood.[7]
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edit- Carroll, John (1869). Case and his cotemporaries, or, The Canadian itinerants' memorial constituting a biographical history of Methodism in Canada, from its introduction into the Province, till the death of the Rev. Wm. Case in 1855. Vol. II. Toronto: Wesleyan Conference Office.