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=Bowes' Journal=
* July 27th: "Arrived at Evansville at 10 p.m. Found my friend Troup with difficulty. He and sister Troup overjoyed to see me after more than fifteen years. Evansville is on the banks of the Ohio, which divides Indiana from [[Kentucky]]. River a mile wide here."
* July 31st: "In the Methodist Episcopal Church Lecture Room; a good attendance. Mr. Pentecost enters heartily into the Lord's Second Coming, and prayed earnestly after I had done. Mr. Sims, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, told me today that all the ministers of this church are temperance men. This must have a mighty influence for good in the denomination and in the world. This nice letter of introduction was given to me from Mr. Pentecost to Mr. Sims:
* Aug. 10th: "Left the hospitable home of my friends, amid some tears, and started for York, [[Pennsylvania|PA]], which I reached at 10 a.m. on the 12th..."
George Frederick Pentecost (b. 1842 Albion, [[Illinois|IL]] - d. 1920 [[New York|N.Y.]]) was an American evangelist and coworker with Dwight L. Moody, according to Wikipedia. The Troup that Bowes references may have been William Troup, Sr. (b. 1818 Forgue, Aberdeen, Scot. - d. 1898 Evansville, OH). Wife: Jessie Jarvis Troup (b. 1824 Aberdeen, Scot. - d. 1904 Evansville, IN). Mr. Sims may have been Albert G. Sims (b. 1828 KY), a hotel keeper in Columbus, KY in 1860, and in Evansville in 1870.
=Sources=
* [https://www.brethrenarchive.org/media/358652/bowes-john-autobiography.pdf Autobio of John Bowes]