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REV. JOHN UFFORD,
Rector of the Episcopal Church, Delaware, is the oldest resident
pastor of Delaware; he was born in Old Stratford, Conn., Nov. 14,
1810, and is the son of Elijah and Percy (Peabody) Ufford,
both natives of Connecticut; the father was a merchant. Mr.
Ufford was a resident of Stratford until he was about 14 years
of age, and then lived in Bridgeport, Conn., some five or six years;
in 1832, he came West to Ohio, and located at Gambier; here he
entered Knox College and graduated in 1837; in 1839 he was ordained,
taking charge of his first parish at Maumee City, Ohio, where he
remained one year; was then in Newark, Ohio, one year; he then went
to Virginia and remained some two years, engaging in teaching
school; Mr. Ufford then took a parish in Northampton Co.,
Va., where he remained about eight or nine years; then to Maysville,
Ky.; from there to Muscatine, Iowa, where he remained until 1861,
when he entered the army and was made Chaplain of the 6th Iowa V.
I.; after the capture of Vicksburg, on account of his health, he
left the army, in 1863, he came to Delaware, since which time he has
been the Rector of the Episcopal Church.
Source No. 2
- History of Delaware Co., Ohio - Publ. Chicago: O. L. Basking & Co.,
Historical Publishers; 1880 - Page 647 |
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