Background
Bovard, Freeman Daily was born on January 9, 1851 in Alpha, Indiana, United States. Son of James and Sarah (Young) Bovard.
Bovard, Freeman Daily was born on January 9, 1851 in Alpha, Indiana, United States. Son of James and Sarah (Young) Bovard.
Brother of George Finley and Charles Lincoln B. Bachelor of Arts, DePauw University, 1875, Master of Arts, 1878 (Doctor of Divinity, 1890. Doctor of Philosophy, Illinois Wesleyan, 1891).
Ordained Mechanical Engineering ministry, 1875. Pastor Riverside, 1875-1876, Orange, 1877-1878, Santa Barbara, California, 1879-1880. Vice-president and professor mathematics, University of Southern California, 1880-1885.
Presiding elder San Francisco District, 1887-1893.
Editor California Christian Advocate, San Francisco, 1900-1913. Correspondent secretary Board Home Missions and Church Extension, Methodist Episcopal Church, 1913-1916, and office secretary same board, since 1916.
Secretary of movement for the exemption of churches in California from taxation, 1899-1900. Superintendent Chinese Mechanical Engineering Missions, California, 1900-1913.
Delegate General Conference, 1900, 04, 08, 12, 16.
Fraternal delegate to Methodist Church of Canada, 1910. Delegate to Ecumenical Conference, Toronto, 1911.
Married Sarah North, June 28, 1875.