Faulk County, SD Biographies.....Holgate, Ernest 1879 - 
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Author: C. H. Ellis



    REV. ERNEST HOLGATE, the subject of this sketch, was born in England in

January, 1879, and was educated in the common and high schools of that country.

.In 1898 he commenced his study for the ministry and in 1901 he was appointed

assistant pastor of the First Methodist church of Brighton, England, where he

continued to serve until his departure for America in October, 1903.



    The Dakota Annual Conference of that year, while he was upon the Atlantic

ocean on his way to the United States of America, appointed him to the pastorate

of the Letcher Methodist church. At the next session in 1904, he was appointed

to the Methodist Episcopal church in Chamberlain, and in 1905 to his present

pastorate in Faulkton.



    October 3d, 1903, three days before he sailed for America, he was united in

holy matrimony with Miss Mary Hartley of Burnlay, England. To them have been

born three children, viz: Clare, Everett and Francis.





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HISTORY OF

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SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



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