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CHICAGO, ILL., DECEMBER 17, 1896. No. 51. 



36th Year. 



REV. m. MAHIN, D. D. 



The subject of this sketch was born in Greene county, 

 Ohio, Oct. 22, 1824. In the fall of 1828 his parents left 

 Ohio and settled in the northern edge of Tippecanoe county, 

 Ind., on the border of the Grand Prairie. At that time the 

 land had not been surveyed, and was not in market. 



In that new country Mr. Mahin spent the next 13 years 

 of his life, with only such facilities for education as so new a 

 country afforded. His parents were neuabers of the Methodist 

 Episcopal church, and in 1839 he became a member of the 

 same church ; and on Aug. 20, 1841, when he lacked two 

 months of being 17 years old, he was given a license to 

 preach, and recommended to the annual conference " as a 

 suitable person to be admitted on trial in the traveling con- 

 nection."' On Oct. 12, following, he was admitted and ap- 

 pointed to a circuit — the youngest man, so far as he knows, 

 ever admitted into an annual conference of the Methodist 

 Episcopal church. Two years afterward, on his 19th birth- 

 day, he was ordained a deacon — the youngest man on whose 

 head a Methodist bishop ever laid his hands, officially. 



Dr. M.'s education was obtained almost exclusively with- 

 out teachers, and by private study. He has filled the office of 

 Presiding Elder nearly 11 years, and occupied some of the 

 best pulpits in his conference. After delivering a lecture, 

 or thesis, before the faculty and students of Indiana Asbury 

 University (now De Pauw), in 1876, that institution con- 

 ferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. 



For eight consecutive years Dr. Mahin was Secretary of 

 of his conference, and would have been longer if he had not 

 been put into the presiding eldership. In 1868, he was a 

 member of the General Conference of his church. 



After 54 years of active official duty in the ministry, he 

 has retired from the pastorate, and sustains what is called the 

 " superannuated relation." But as a superannuate, he con- 

 tinues to preach about as much as ever. 



Dr. Mahin became interested in bees in his early boyhood, 

 but never kept them, except for a very short time, until 1 870, 

 when a friend gave him a colony in a box-hive. These he 

 transferred to a movable-comb hive of his own make, which, 

 with modifications, is the style of hive he has used ever since. 



He thinks "il is the largest number of colonies he has ever 

 had at one time, and now has only 12. 



For nine years up to one year ago last spring, he was 

 away from his own home where his bees were kept, and could 

 not attend to them, and the apiary nearly run out. The last 

 two seasons have been so very poor that he has had no in- 

 crease, and had to feed his bees to winter them. 



In 1843 he married Miss Eliza Dorsey, of Dearborn 

 county, Ind., and they have now lived together 53 years. 



Dr. Mahin is well known to our readers, as one of the 

 corps who reply to questions in our "Question-Box" depart- 

 ment. In 1893, we endeavored to picture all of them, and we 

 believe, with one exception, we succeeded in doing so. Dr. 

 Mahin was the only one we did not get at that time. 



Rev. M. Mahin, D. D., Ncwcdstle, Ind. 



We express only the sincere wish of all our readers when 

 we say that we trust that Dr. Mahin and his good wife may be 

 spared yet many years to bless the world, and at last have an 

 abundant entrance into that eternal Home not made with 

 hands. 



