Elbert Chute [52100] ¹⁰

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"Was a convert to Christianity at the age of fourteen; baptized by Rev. George Richardson, and joined the Baptist church at Strathroy; he bought a farm in Carradoc, and worked it a few years, at the same time cultivating his talents as a Christian,and also in the practice of music; he married Sarah Jane, daughter of William Webb of Carradoc, Dec. 25, 1873; built a brick house that year and taught singing. But being impressed with the propriety of preaching the gospel he sold out his farm and attended grammar school in Strathroy, spring of 1875, which he attended for a year and a half. He next attended the Woodstock college or institute two and a half years; then to the Morgan Park school or college near Chicago, where he was ordained to the gospel ministry, and graduated B.D., May, 1882. As a student he was nearly always at the head of his class; he also studied medicine in London, Ont., under Dr. E. G. Edwards; he embarked for India from New York, Aug 30, 1882; went to Secumderahad, and in 1885 to Palmoor, a missionary and teacher among the Felagus. He has been very successful in winning souls to Christ, having about three hundred members in one church, one third of them converts from the high caste. In 1890 he organized another church fifty miles away. His field is sixty by eighty miles over. In 1887 his sister Leoni, went and joined him in the good work."

Elbert married Sarah Jane Webb [52136] [MRIN: 551613469], daughter of William Webb [55345] and Unknown, on 25 Dec 1873 in Caradoc Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada. (Sarah Jane Webb [52136] was born in 1852 in Caradoc Township, Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada.)