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I. E. (Ingraham E.) Bill

1805–1891

A Baptist minister, journalist, and writer from Nova Scotia, he spent much of the 19th century chronicling church life in Maritime Canada. His work is especially remembered for preserving the stories of ministers, congregations, and religious communities that might otherwise have been lost.

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The life of the departed : A sermon occasioned by the death of the Rev. Joseph Crandal, of Salsbury, preached in the Baptist chapel, Germain Street, city of St. John

The life of the departed : A sermon occasioned by the death of the Rev. Joseph Crandal, of Salsbury, preached in the Baptist chapel, Germain Street, city of St. John

by I. E. (Ingraham E.) Bill

About the author

Born in Billtown, Nova Scotia, in 1805, Ingraham Ebenezer Bill became a Canadian Baptist minister, journalist, and author. Reliable reference sources describe him as a figure shaped early by family loss, religious commitment, and a strong sense of public duty, all of which carried into his long career in ministry and writing.

Bill served congregations in the Maritime provinces and also worked as an editor, giving him a voice both in the pulpit and in print. He is best known for Fifty Years with the Baptist Ministers and Churches of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, a substantial historical work valued for its firsthand record of Baptist life in the region.

He died in 1891 in St. Martins, New Brunswick. For listeners interested in religious history, regional history, or 19th-century Canadian nonfiction, his writing offers a close look at the people and institutions that shaped Maritime communities.