Rev. James F. Bitler aged 73 pastor of First Methodist Episcopal church in Hamden, Ohio and a former pastor of Wesley chapel, now the Central M.E. church, Columbus, died at white Cross Hospital at 11 o'clock Thursday morning, Feb 4 of heart disease which developed recently following a minor operation upon his nose.

He is survived by his wife, three sons and 2 daughters, Rev. Thomas Bitler, PASTOR of the Prospect Hill Congregational church, Somerville, Mass. Fred and James Bitler, engaged in the restaurant business in New York; Mrs. Grace Phrellfall, widow of the late Rev. John Phrellfall of Paris, newspaper correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, and Mrs. Renwick Tallmann, Chicago.

Funeral services were held in the Westerville Methodist church at 2:30 o'clock Sat and the body was placed in the mausoleum at Westerville.

Rev. Bitler, made a talk recently before the Men's Club of the Presbyterian church. Some thirty-five years ago he was an exhorter and evangelist and conducted a series of meetings at the Methodist church in the city.

Source: Circleville Herald, Circleville, OH, February 4, 1926.

NOTE: There was a book published about him titled "Noise It Abroad: Or, Bitler and his methods, together with remarkable events attending some of the revivals in which he has labored", by Charles Frisbie Creighton, published in 1885 in Columbus, OH.

Rev. James F. Bitler aged 73 pastor of First Methodist Episcopal church in Hamden, Ohio and a former pastor of Wesley chapel, now the Central M.E. church, Columbus, died at white Cross Hospital at 11 o'clock Thursday morning, Feb 4 of heart disease which developed recently following a minor operation upon his nose.

He is survived by his wife, three sons and 2 daughters, Rev. Thomas Bitler, PASTOR of the Prospect Hill Congregational church, Somerville, Mass. Fred and James Bitler, engaged in the restaurant business in New York; Mrs. Grace Phrellfall, widow of the late Rev. John Phrellfall of Paris, newspaper correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, and Mrs. Renwick Tallmann, Chicago.

Funeral services were held in the Westerville Methodist church at 2:30 o'clock Sat and the body was placed in the mausoleum at Westerville.

Rev. Bitler, made a talk recently before the Men's Club of the Presbyterian church. Some thirty-five years ago he was an exhorter and evangelist and conducted a series of meetings at the Methodist church in the city.

Source: Circleville Herald, Circleville, OH, February 4, 1926.

NOTE: There was a book published about him titled "Noise It Abroad: Or, Bitler and his methods, together with remarkable events attending some of the revivals in which he has labored", by Charles Frisbie Creighton, published in 1885 in Columbus, OH.