[275] American Church History, Vol. XII; see article on "The Society of Friends," by Professor A. C. Thomas, pp. 242-248; also Weeks, Southern Quakers and Slavery, pp. 198-219.
[276] H. N. McTyeire, D.D., History of Methodism, 1887, pp. 375, 536, 601, 611.
[277] Conversation with Major J. C. Brand, Urbana, O., Aug. 13, 1894.
[278] Conversation with Thomas M. Hazlett, Freeport, Harrison Co., O., Aug. 18, 1895.
[279] Conversation with Mrs. Mary B. Carson, Piqua, O., Aug. 30, 1895.
[280] Letter of Professor F. L. Parker, Grinnell, Ia., Sept. 30, 1894.
[281] Wm. B. Sprague, D.D., Annals of the American Pulpit, Vol. IV, 1858, p. 137; Robert E. Thompson, D.D., History of the Presbyterian Churches in the United States, 1895, p. 122.
[282] Robert E. Thompson, D.D., History of the Presbyterian Churches in the United States, 1895, pp. 136, 137.
[283] Address by J. C. Leggett, in a pamphlet entitled Rev. John Rankin, 1892, p. 9.
[284] Letter of Mrs. A. M. Buchanan, Savannah, O., 1893; conversation with Thomas L. Smith, Fredericksburg, Wayne Co., O., Aug. 15, 1895.