1900 H. J. CROCKET. Rare Free Methodist Camp Meeting Broadside - East Caton, New York.

A rare survivor; a neatly preserved 10 x 13 inch broadside advertising a Free Methodist Camp-Meeting in East Caton, New York and the Corning District. We trace no other exaples. 

The three ministers mentioned are H. L. Crocket[t], H. D. Brink, and F. J. Cathey.

H. L. Crockett [misspelled on the broadside] had been, along with his wife, one of the earliest missionaries sent out by the Free Methodist. They served in India, but his wife had a nervous breakdown, or "collapse," and they returned home from the field. Crockett was a fairly significant camp-meeting preacher from the late 1890's forward. Crockett seems at some point to have become and attorney and served as legal counsel for the Free Methodist church as well.

H[arvey] D. Brink was a rather prominent proponent of the Camp Meeting system and an early Free Methodist. He is mentioned multiple times in Vivian Dake's biography and had been arrested for holding camp meetings when told they were not allowed, etc. 

F[rank]. J. Cathey was a prominent and early Free Methodist in the Columbia River Conference in the Pacific Northwest, etc. 

A Very good example, folds, and two corners with minor turns. Otherwise, rather exceptional