William H. H. Pillsbury

Born in 1839 in Maine, William Pillsbury attended Wesleyan Seminary at Kent Hill. Yet before he could finish his studies, he joined the infantry of the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War. After serving for two years, the Army discharged Pillsbury on account of illness, allowing him to complete his course of study of Wesleyan. He continued his studies at the Boston University School of Theology, graduating in 1868. Three years later, Pillsbury married Eliza C. Bowers, of Monmouth, Maine, and the couple had seven children together.

After working briefly in New Hampshire and Maine conferences of the M.E. Church, Pillsbury went to Iowa. He worked in the Iowa Conference for 17 years, concurrently obtaining an M.A. from Iowa College in 1879, and a D. D. from De Pauw College in 1882. He left Iowa to serve several Churches in the North Nebraska Conference. In 1895, he was nominated to be Nance County Treasurer. He ran and was elected as a Republican, yet before he could take office, he died.

Source:

David A. Pilsbury and Emily A. Getchell, The Pillsbury Family: Being a History of William and Dorothy Pillsbury (Everett, MA: Massachusetts Publishing Company, 1898), Entry 721.