1861-1937

Ju­ly 27, 1861, Mid­dle­bu­ry, In­di­a­na.

De­cem­ber 27, 1937, Wi­chi­ta, Kan­sas.

King­man, Kan­sas.

In 1885, Nus­baum be­gan teach­ing school in Mar­i­on Coun­ty, Kan­sas. He was or­dained a Meth­od­ist min­is­ter in 1886, and pas­tored in Doug­lass, God­dard, Wi­chi­ta, and King­man, Kansas. He went on to serve as ed­u­cat­ion­al sec­re­ta­ry at South­west­ern Coll­ege in Win­field, Kan­sas (1895-97); pas­tor at Ot­ta­wa, Kan­sas (1897-1903); pre­sid­ing el­der of the In­de­pen­dent Dis­trict (1903-7); and pas­tor at Par­sons, Kan­sas (1908-14). In 1914, the Meth­od­ist Con­fer­ence ap­point­ed him as an evan­gel­ist. Dur­ing World War I, he served as an Amer­i­can Red Cross in­spect­or in France, hold­ing the rank of U.S. Ar­my cap­tain. Af­ter the war, he oft­en spoke on the Red­path Ly­ce­um cir­cuit, and held evan­gel­is­tic meet­ings in Kan­sas, Ne­bras­ka, Ok­la­ho­ma, and Tex­as. South­west­ern Coll­ege con­ferred a DD de­gree up­on him. In his lat­ter years, he served small Kans­as church­es, and was a sup­ply preach­er at Lost Springs and An­te­lope.

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