Truman Dixon was a circuit rider in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Truman was born in Ireland, and moved to Rome, New York as a young boy. There he trained as a clothier, and converted to Methodism.[1]
In 1819, he was assigned to the Detroit circuit. There he found 30 members of the Episcopal church. He supervised the erection of the first Methodist Meeting House in Detroit. Membership in the Episcopal church increased to sixty-six that year.[1] In 1820, he was reassigned to the Montreal circuit.[2] During the year, the Episcopal church and the Methodist Church of Great Britain resulted in the Episcopal preachers being withdrawn from Lower Canada, and the British preachers being withdrawn from Upper Canada. As a result, Dixon was reassigned to the Ottawa circuit.[3]
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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.