Crawford County Clergy - Johnson_Edwin

Crawford County Clergy
Pastors, Preachers and Priests in Crawford County, PA.

Edwin A. Johnson

JOHNSON, EDWIN A. Conference Relations: Licensed to Preach 1849; Admitted on Trial Methodist Episcopal Erie Conference 1853; Full Member 1855; Deacon 1853, Baker; Elder 1857, Scott; Transferred to Methodist Episcopal Pittsburgh Conference 1872; Transferred to Methodist Episcopal Erie Conference 1874. Deceased: June 30, 1885 in Allegheny City, North Side, Pittsburgh, PA. Buried in Forestville, NY.

Appointments: PA: Hudson 1853-1854; NY: Dunkirk 1854-1855; PA: Sharon 1855-1856; Westfield 1856-1858; Meadville: First (Stone) 1858- 1860; NY: Fredonia 1860-1862; OH: Cleveland: Erie Street 1862-1863; OH: Warren 1863-1864; Akron 1864-1865; PA: Erie: First 1865-1868; NY: Jamestown (three months) 1868; Assistant Editor: Pittsburgh Christian Advocate 1868-1873; Pittsburgh: Allegheny City: Simpson 1873-1874; Supernumerary 1874-1885; While in the Supernumerary Relationship, he devoted himself to the authorship of books for young people.
Memoir Methodist Episcopal Church, Erie Conference Journal 1885, Page 41.
Johnson, Edwin A., D.D., was born at Gowanda, New York, Oct. 30, 1829; joined the Methodist Episcopal Church at eleven years of age, and commenced to prepare for college, but owing to asthma was prevented from graduating. He was licensed to preach February, 1849; in 1852 entered the Erie Conference. He occupied important charges from that time until 1868, when he was elected Associate Editor of The Pittsburgh Christian Advocate. He is the author of "Money and Missions" (a prize tract), "Half Hour Studies of Life," and "The Live Boy, or Charleys Letters." He retired from editorial work in 1872, and was engaged in writing books and occasional papers for the periodical press of the church.