James D. Fry, A.M. Professor at the Illinois Wesleyan University, was born on 16 May 1824 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He was educated partly in Oberlin, Ohio, but finished his collegiate course at Ohio Wesleyan University. He joined the Ohio Conference, and after having spent several years in the pastoral relation and as a financial agent of Wesleyan University, he spent a year traveling in Europe. On his return, he was elected to the professorship he now holds.
Mr. Susan M. Fry (maiden name Davidson, wife of the preceding) was born in Burlington, Ohio, on 4 February 1841 and was educated in the Female Seminary at Oxford, Ohio, where she graduated at the age of eighteen and engaged in teaching, drawing, painting, and music. In 1867 she was converted and joined the M.E. Church, and the following year was married.
In 1871, she began to work in the interests of the Ladies’ and Pastors’ Christian Union and for the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society and is now secretary of its Illinois branch. She has visited many of the Conferences and addressed them on behalf of these societies. After traveling with her husband in Europe, she was elected to the chair of Belles-Lettres at Illinois Wesleyan University in 1875, a position she still holds. She has also been an occasional contributor to the church and other periodicals.
Source: Cyclopaedia of Methodism
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