{"id":20960,"date":"2019-12-22T04:45:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T04:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/?post_type=photo&#038;p=20960"},"modified":"2019-12-27T00:15:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T00:15:51","slug":"sterling-w-m-rev","status":"publish","type":"photo","link":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/photo\/sterling-w-m-rev\/","title":{"rendered":"Sterling, William Morris (Rev.) (1845-1936)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. W.M. Sterling, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church, was born in Newport, Nova Scotia, July 4,1845.\u00a0 He received his early education in the common schools of his native place and at Wesleyan Academy, Sackville, New Brunswick.\u00a0 His next course of study was taken at Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Conn.\u00a0 He then entered Boston Theological Seminary.\u00a0 Finishing his education there, his first pastorate was at Newport, Vermont, which was followed by an appointment to Lyndon, in the same state. \u00a0Afterward he served the Congress St. church, Portland, Maine, and then went to Augusta; then to the Wesley church, Bath, and afterward to Brunswick and Waterville, all in the Pine Tree state.\u00a0 His next appointment was to the Baker Memorial church, Concord, N.H., which was followed by the 13th Avenue church, Minneapolis, Minn.\u00a0 He then came to California and has occupied pulpits in Santa Ana, Riverside, Los Angeles, Asbury and Central.\u00a0 His appointment to this city dates from October of the present year.\u00a0 In Barton, Vt., on April 16 1874, he was married to Miss Eva E. Drew, a native of the same place.\u00a0 They have one child, Ellen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Source:\u00a0 <em>Illustrated Redlands<\/em>, 1897, p. 61.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20961,"template":"","photo_tag":[],"gallery":[176],"awards_category":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo\/20960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/photo"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo\/20960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"photo_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photo_tag?post=20960"},{"taxonomy":"gallery","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gallery?post=20960"},{"taxonomy":"awards_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/awards_category?post=20960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}