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Lansford Whiting was a Methodist circuit rider.

Whiting converted to Methodism around 1804. Whiting was accepted on trial as a circuit rider in 1808, and assigned to the Plattsburgh Circuit.[1] Whiting rode the Dunham Circuit of Lower Canada in 1809. Under his watch, membership in the circuit's Methodist society increased from 262 to 319 individuals.[2] In 1810, he rode the Thurman Circuit. He contracted smallpox, and died June 4th, 1811 in Poughkeepsie, New York.[1]

  1. ^ a b Carroll, volume I, page 330
  2. ^ Carroll, John (1867). Case and his cotemporaries, or, The Canadian itinerants' memorial constituting a biographical history of Methodism in Canada, from its introduction into the Province, till the death of the Rev. Wm. Case in 1855. Vol. I. Toronto: Wesleyan Conference Office. p. 191.