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Solomon Waldron was a circuit rider in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Waldron was born in Coeymans, New York on 28th December, 1795. He converted to Methodism in June 1818, in Canada East. He received a licence to exhort from Franklin Metcalf on 20th February, 1820.[1]

He attended the local preachers conference in Elizabethtown on 24th June, 1822, where he received a preaching licence, and was sent to the Augusta Circuit, where he worked alongside Franklin Metcalf.[1] The following year, the pair remained together, riding the Perth and New Settlements circuit.[2]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Carroll, volume II, page 423
  2. ^ Carroll, volume II, page 466

References

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  • 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.