Fry, Benjamin St. James

D.D. (Quincy, now Chaddock, College, 1871), Methodist; b. at Rutledge, Granger County, Tenn., June 16, 1824;.studied at Woodward College, Cincinnati, three years, but did not graduate; entered the ministry, a,nd the Ohio Conference, 1847; was president of the Worthing ton Female College, O., 1856-60; •chaplain 63d Regiment Ohio Volunteers, 18(31— 64; in charge of St. Louis branch of the Western Methodist Book Concern, 1865-72; and since has been editor of The Central Christian Advocate, St. Louis. He was member of the London Methodist (Ecumenical Conference, and of the Centennial Conference at Baltimore, and read an e ay on the Methodist pre . He is the author of Property Consecrated (prize e ay on systematic beneficence), New York, 1856, last ed. 1884; Lives of Bishops What coat, McKendree, George, and Roberts, 4 vols.; besides articles in reviews, etc.