Introduction

Biography

Lloyd seems to have spent his young­er years in and around the Eng­lish/Welsh bor­der (pos­si­bly the Knight­on and Rad­nor­shire area).

He served in the Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church, then emi­grat­ed to Am­er­ica about 1850. He worked him­self to sick­ness af­ter ar­riv­al, then re­turned to Eng­land in 1855 to re­cu­per­ate.

After re­turn­ing to Am­er­ica, he took a post at the First Pres­by­ter­ian Church of Branch­ville, New Jers­ey, as Stat­ed sup­ply (1857–61).

He be­came the church’s first re­gu­lar­ly in­stalled pas­tor on No­vem­ber 21, 1861. He served in the Pres­by­te­ry of Newa­rk (and lat­er Rock­a­way), New Jer­sey.

When the Am­er­ican ci­vil war be­gan, Lloyd was a staunch Un­ion­ist and so preached, to the an­noy­ance of ma­ny south­ern sym­pa­thiz­ers.

He was shot at in the pul­pit one day, but the bull­et missed when the sex­ton knocked the gun­man’s arm up­ward. Lloyd en­dured ma­ny oth­er at­tacks as well, and lat­er, the con­gre­g­ation was split ov­er his pas­tor­ate.

Lloyd went on to serve church­es in Es­can­a­ba, Mi­chi­gan; Hor­i­con, Wis­con­sin; and Moin­go­na, Io­wa. In the 1880s, he was asked to re­turn to pas­tor in Branch­ville. He wrote, spoke, preached and pre­sid­ed in peace and hon­or un­til his death.

Works

In 1865, he pub­lished a book­let called The De­vil in Dix­ie, a long verse about the evils he saw in the Con­fed­er­acy. It came out right af­ter pre­si­dent Ab­ra­ham Lin­coln was as­sas­sin­at­ed, and was not wide­ly pur­chased.

His other works inc­lude:

• Lyrics of Lake and Stream