Pastors at Peoples Number 4

Pastors at Peoples Number 4 1885-1893
1885-1888 True P. Adams: Pastor Adams began his pastoral journey in the village of Kendall’s Mills in 1869. He then served Wilton, Bowdoinham and Kennebunkport before coming to Cape Elizabeth for the first time with a placement at the Depot in 1877-1878. He then went to serve on Peaks Island then known as the Island Church before another two years was served at Kennebunk. As the Pastor at Ferry Village revival was abounding and the Sunday school was especially prosperous. Additions were made to the building and membership increased. In the year 1888 the Ferry Village Methodist Episcopal Church formally became known as Peoples Methodist Episcopal Church, an appropriate title given the growth that had taken place in membership.e then served Wilton and Bowdoinham

1888-1890 Leonard. H. Bean: Reverend Bean had been born at Pleasant Ridge, Maine on November 8, 1831. He had trained to be a boot and shoemaker. He was converted at Hallowell in 1857 and received his license to preach in the following year. He was admitted to the Eastern Maine Conference on trial in 1862 before transferring to the Maine Conference in 1875. The records report that he was very successful at church and parsonage building. He was married on October 27, 1851 to Miss. S. Frances Merrill. They had five children. Prior to coming to Ferry Village he had served in Bath, Saco, Skowhegan, Kent’s Hill and Farmington. Reverend Bean was back in Cape Elizabeth (until the 1895 petition for separation and Charter granting in 1898) at Elm Street Methodist Church as their third pastor where he served from 1892 through 1893.

1890-1893 Thomas Frederick Jones: Mr. Jones was educated at Maine Wesleyan Seminary and Bowdoin College. He was admitted to the Conference in 1881, the year he had graduated from Bowdoin College. In that same year he married Ida Estella Danforth of Cornish. Together they would have five children; William, Elizabeth (Robinson), Frederick, I. Meta (Harrington), and Grace. Prior to coming to Peoples he had served at Durham, Bowdoinham, Gorham, South Berwick and Winthrop. Later after serving Peoples he spent many years in central and eastern Maine. Reverend Cymbrid Hughes who wrote his obituary in the Methodist Pastoral Memoirs wrote descriptively of his birth: " Born in gallant little Wales, one of God’s choicest beauty spots, in a land where every mother’s most passionate wish is that her boy might be a poet, or bard, or preacher, it is no wonder that the prophetic fire was early kindled in his breast. For almost half a century he found his greatest joy in proclaiming the unsearchable riches of Jesus Christ." His father had been a Wesleyan Methodist Church preacher in Wales. He was born in Tredeger, Monmouthshire on January 23, 1854. Eight years later his father brought the family to Maine by following Providence. They arrived in America on the fourth sailing of the famous steamship, The Great Eastern. In time both his father William and himself after serving years in many pulpits would also serve as Superintendents within the Maine Conference. In later years his alma mater, Bowdoin College awarded him both a Doctor of Divinity (DD) degree and a Sacred Theology Degree (STD). While attending the Conference session in Gardiner in April 1930, Reverend Jones suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. He died days later in the home of his daughter, Elizabeth in Augusta.