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Joseph Messmore was a circuit rider in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

In 1823, he replaced Isaac B. Smith as a circuit rider on the Lancaster circuit, working with David Culp. The trio oversaw a decrease in church membership of eighty-two.

References

• Carroll, John (1869). Case and his cotemporaries, or, The Canadian itinerants' memorial constituting a biographical history of Methodism in Canada, from its introduction into the Province, till the death of the Rev. Wm. Case in 1855. Vol. II. Toronto: Wesleyan Conference Office.