Information from Kansas West card file (discarded): cards list only his initials, J. N. , but the assumption was made that this is the right guy 1835 - born July 9 in Licking County, OH 1857 - Central Illinois Conference 1860 - married Orril Banning (b. May 13, 1835, d. October 27, 1911) on August 21 1870 - Kansas Conference 1882 - Southwest Kansas Conference, supernumerary 1883 - superannuate 1887 - retired 1912 - wife's memoir, Southwest Kansas Journal (p.48) 1921 - died September 8 in Avondale, CO; buried Roselawn Cemetery 1922 - memoir, Southwest Kansas Journal (p.164) children: 3 sons, 4 daughters, incl. Mrs. M.G. Laverty photo: Southwest Kansas Journal 1907 (p.331)