[Illustration: Eng. by A. R. Ritchie. yours affectionately Henry Boehm b. June 8, 1775--d. 1875.] THE PATRIARCH OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS; BEING REMINISCENCES, HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL, OF REV. HENRY BOEHM. BY REV. J. B. WAKELEY, D.D. [Illustration] With several additional chapters, containing an Account of the Exercises on his One Hundredth Birthday; his Sermon before the Newark Conference and the Addresses then delivered; his Centennial Sermons in Trinity Church, Jersey City, and in John-street Church, New York, and The Addresses made on those occasions, PHONOGRAPHICALLY REPORTED. [Illustration] NEW YORK: NELSON & PHILLIPS. CINCINNATI: HITCHCOCK & WALDEN. 1875. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by CARLTON & PORTER, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. TO THOMAS A. MORRIS, D.D., AND HIS COLLEAGUES, THE BISHOPS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, THE WORTHY SUCCESSORS OF THE APOSTOLIC ASBURY, IS THIS VOLUME MOST AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY HENRY BOEHM. PREFACE. For many years, and by many persons, including bishops, editors, and others, I have been importuned to publish the substance of my records and recollections of the Methodism of my day. It was judged that my great age, my intimate relations with Bishop Asbury, and my acquaintance with other pioneers and fathers of the Church, would enable me thus to preserve much desirable information which would otherwise soon be forgotten. In 1847 the New Jersey Conference took action on the subject, and appointed a committee to confer with me in respect to my journals and other papers, and aid in preparing them for publication. The committee was a very competent one, but the members were too widely separated for any effectual result. I had concluded to abandon the design, and this volume would probably never have seen the light had not the Rev. J. B. Wakeley come to my help.