Your father was assigned to the eastern division and I took the western.

His field included Davenport, Long Grove and Allen's Grove, in Scott Co.; Maquoketa and Burlison's in Jackson Co., and Dewitt in Clinton Co.

He labored also in Cedar Co., and did a grand work, not so much in the numbers added as in the sowing the good seed of the Kingdom, and recommending our plea to the more intelligent and better informed of the various communities where he labored.

You will remember that he held in mind nearly the entire New Testament, so that he could quote it most accurately.

I think he had also the clearest and most minute details of the Old Testament history, of any man I ever knew.