Rousa, Edward D

Rousa, Edward D., a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born at Ithaca, Tompkins Co., N.Y., Jan. 19, 1832. He joined the Church in 1848, and studied at Lima, N.Y. In 1852 he was received on trial in the East Genesee Conference, from which he was transferred, in 1863, to the Upper Iowa Conference, In 1866 he received a supernumerary relation, and located in 1868. In October, 1872, he entered the Central New York Conference, and died in Westfield, Tioga Co., Pa., May 6, 1873. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1873, p. 130.