Biographical Sketch of Rev. John R. Pimlott, Franklin County, Missouri

>From "History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford and 
Gasconade Counties", Biographical Appendix, Goodspeed Publishing 
Company, 1888.

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Rev. John R. Pimlott, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church of 
Pacific, was born in Paterson, N. J., December 27, 1845.  He is the
fifth in the family of eight children, four of whom are now living,
of Francis and Mary (Marriott) Pimlott, natives, respectively, of
Derby and Nottingham, England.  Francis Pimlott, also a minister of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, came to the United States in 1844,
but in 1847 returned to England; again coming to this country in 1866
he settled in Troy, N. Y., where he died in 1870, aged forty-seven
years.  His parents were John and Esther Pimlott, natives of Derby,
England, where the former died March 17, 1854, aged sixty-seven years,
and the latter May 26, 1858, at the age of seventy-six years, being
interred at Ashburn Church, Derby.  Mrs. Mary Pimlott, mother of our
subject, is still living, residing at present in Cleveland, Ohio, at
the age of sixty-five years; her parents were Rhodes and Alice Marr-
iott, natives of Nottingham, England, where the former, a tailor by
trade, died in 1879, aged ninety-one and the latter died about 1860,
aged fifty-five years.  When two years old John R. Pimlott was taken
to England by his parents, where he received a good, common school
education.  Returning to the United States at the age of twenty-one,
he completed his education at a college in Ohio.  For several years 
he was engaged in organizing churches, his first charge being that of
a Mission Church at Stowe's Hill, Troy, N. Y., where he labored two
years.  He then established and had charge of Wesley Chapel, Spring-
field, Ohio, for about four years, when he was transferred to the St.
Louis Methodist Episcopal Conference, and given the pastorate of the 
Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church at Pacific.  He has met with un-
usual success in his chose life work, particularly as an Evangelist
and church organizer.  He was married February 15, 1868, to Susie 
Bailey, a native of Troy, N. Y., and a daughter of Henry and Sarah 
(Jones) Bailey.  They were the parents of one child, which died in
infancy.  Mrs. Pimlott is a valuable assistant to her husband in his
revival meetings.  He is a Prohibitionist in politics.

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