Atwood, Rev. Mark of Rochester, Windsor Co, VT

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Courtesy of David C. Young
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This is one of many the biographical sketches I plan to post to this list
on Free Will Baptist minister from VT.

(Copy from  "Free Baptist Cyclopaedia"  Historical & Biographical  by  Rev
G. A. Burgess. A. M. & Rev. J. T. Ward, A.M.   Free Baptist Cyclopaedia Co.
1889, page 26) 

Atwood, Rev.  Mark, son of James and Betsey (McCollister) Atwood, was born
at Rochester, Vt., in November, 1820. He studied a short time at
Parsonfield, Me. Converted at the age of seventeen, he was baptized by Rev.
Joshua Tucker, joining the church at Warren, and was licensed two years
later.    He was ordained at the September session of the Enosburg Q. M.
in 1840, at Franklin, Vt., and the same year baptized six. The ordaining
council consisted of Rev's A. Kilborn, S. Hazeltine, M. S. Moody, Amos
Davis and Raymond Austin.  For four years he traveled in Vermont, Canada
and elsewhere, and saw great revivals.  He frequently went with Rev.
Isaac G. Davis.  His pastorates are Candia, N. H.: Northwood ; Salem,
Mass.; Underhill, Vt.; Starksborough ; Hopkinton, N. Y.; Parishville ;
Strafford, Vt.; Sutton ; Sheffield ; and North Danville, where he settled
in 1884.  He was employed by the Home Mission Board in Nova Scotia in
184243, and assisted in the organization of a Quarterly Meeting.   During
a continous  ministry of fortysix    years he has helped organize several
churches, baptized hundreds,  and see 3,000 hopeful conversions  in the
meetings he has conducted.  He baptized Rev.  E. W. Porter, and preached
the ordination sermon of Rev.  N. L. Rowell.  He was delegate to the
General Conference at Maineville, OH., in 1856, and at Lewiston, Me., in
1865.  In 1846 he married Lovina Davis, and six children gladden their
hearts and hearth.

(Copy from  "Free Baptist Cyclopaedia"  Historical & Biographical  by  Rev
G. A. Burgess. A. M. & Rev. J. T. Ward, A.M.   Free Baptist Cyclopaedia Co.
1889, page 26) 

David C. Young
PO Box 152
Danville, Maine 04223