LITTLEJOHNS, FRANCIS HENRY (1887-1967)

LITTLEJOHNS, FRANCIS HENRY, Methodist minister, Chatham circuit, 1921-25; b. Manchester, England, 28 Sep 1887, s/o William Littlejohns and E. Rains; m. 1919, Anna Helen Forsyth; d. Charlottetown, 29 May 1967.

Francis H. Littlejohns was an apprentice for three years in the leather goods field and then attended Cliff College in Calver, Derbyshire, England, for a year. He came to Canada in 1910 to study theology at Mount Allison University. Ordained in 1914, he spent thirty-eight years in the Methodist and United Church ministry in the Maritimes. He came to Chatham from York, P.E.I., in 1921, and when he left four years later he went to Pownal on the Island, where he served during church union. He was later a United Church minister in Saint John and elsewhere. He entered retirement at Reserve Mines, N.S., in 1952 and subsequently moved to Charlottetown.

In 1925 Littlejohns was the violinist with a musical ensemble, of which W. Chubb MacLoon and Bertha Ferguson were also members, and which performed on the radio. His musicianship, his interest in photography, and his "wholesome sense of humour" were recalled at the time of his death. He was survived by his wife, A. Helen Forsyth, a son who was also a United Church minister, and a daughter.