Sias, Solomon

Sias, Solomon.

a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born. at London, N.H., Feb. 25, 1781. He began to preach Sept, 25, 1805, and in 1806 was admitted into the New England Conference on trial. He was ordained deacon by bishop Asbury in 1806, and elder in 1810. In 1828 he took a superannuated relation, which he held, with the exception of one year, until his death at Newbury, Vt., Feb. 12, 1853. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1853, p. 222.