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I. E. (Ingraham E.) Bill

1805–1891

A Canadian Baptist minister, journalist, and writer, he spent much of the 19th century recording the religious life of the Maritime provinces. His work is especially valued for the window it gives into church history, public life, and reform-minded writing in early Canada.

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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 known as a Baptist minister, journalist, and author. Reference sources describe a career that crossed ministry, publishing, and public debate rather than staying in a single field, which helps explain why his writing ranges from sermons and religious argument to historical and biographical work.

He is best remembered for books such as Fifty Years with the Baptist Ministers and Churches of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, a work that has remained useful to readers interested in Baptist history in Atlantic Canada. He also edited and wrote within the religious press, building a reputation as a clear, committed voice in the Baptist communities of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

Bill died in 1891 in St. Martins, New Brunswick. Today, he is mainly read as a vivid chronicler of 19th-century Maritime religious life: a writer whose books preserve the people, institutions, and arguments that shaped his world.