Background
Silver, Jesse Forrest was born on August 8, 1872 in near Canton, Ohio, United States. Son of John B. and Anna Elizabeth (Baer) Silver.
Silver, Jesse Forrest was born on August 8, 1872 in near Canton, Ohio, United States. Son of John B. and Anna Elizabeth (Baer) Silver.
Preparatory education, public schools and Deerfield, O., select school. Student Mount Union College, Alliance, O., 1891-1894, Pittsburgh Bible Institute, 1916-1917.
Ordained Free Methodist ministry, 1897. Pastor Indiana, Pennsylvania (on trial), 1896-1897, Greensburg, 1898-1900, Tarentum, 1901-1903. District elder (superintendent) Rochester (Pennsylvania) district, 1904-1907, Butler district, 1908-1911.
Pastor Butler, 1912-1914, East End, Pittsburgh, 1915.
District elder Pittsburgh district, 1915-1916. Associate pastor Gospel Tabernacle, Pittsburgh, 1917-1919.
Writing and evangelism, 1920-1928. Secretary Pittsburgh Conference Free Methodist Church, 1900-1915.
Delegate and assistant secretary General Conference, Chicago, 1911, 15.
Editor Providence Mission Tidings (monthly), 1907-1916. Bible teacher Toccoa Falls Institute, Toccoa, Georgia, 1929-1931.
Member Southern California Premillennial Association.
Married Margaret J. George, of Indiana Company, Pennsylvania, April. Children: Mistress Anna G. Sedwick, Raymond G., Helen North., Marian.