Rev. John Carroll writes, "About three years before this time (1851), there fell inder my pastoral care in Hamilton, a young man, the son of one of our leading friends in Guelph, who possessed a good mind and unmistakable talents for usefuless, whose reluctance to public efforts I endeavored, with no very great success, to overcome. I was, therefore, glad when I heard, a few years later, that he had entered the work. Here is his own account of the matter:-"On the 4th of July, 1854, Rev. Lewis Warner met me at a camp-meeting at Bond Head, and he and many others insisted on my going immediately into the work. I had just consecrated myself anew to God; and after spending the night in prayer, with some friends, I consented to go. I was at once sent, under Rev. A. Campbell's (1st) superintendency, to Clinton. My destiation was Morris Mission, then just forming." This letter is signed John Hough.

Charges: 1854 Morris/Clinton (Guelph District), 1855 Peel, 1856 Mitchell, ordained 1857-1858 at Howick (Huron Co.), 1858 Minto (Wellington Co.), 1859-1861 Ainleyville, 1861 McKillop, 1862-1863 Teeswater/Carrick (Bruce Co.), 1864-1865 Wyoming, 1866 Petrolia/Mt. Brydges, 1868-1869 Puslinch/Eramosa/Rockwood (Wellington Co.), 1869-1871 Millbank, 1871 Normandy (Grey Co.)/Mornington (Perth Co.), 1872-1874 Trowbridge/Elma (Perth Co.), 1875-1877 Clifford/Minto (Wellington Co.), 1878-1881 Peel (Wellington Co.).

He was born in 1831 in England, member of Norfolk St. Wesleyan Methodist Church Guelph (Wellington Co.) and entered ministry in 1855. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery - Block M4, Guelph, Wellington Co.