He served the following appointments as Pastor: the Orient Heights Methodist Church in East Boston, 1916-18; Gorham, Maine, 1918-20; Newton, Massachusetts 1920-22; the Grace Methodist Church in Dayton, Ohio, 1922-34; and First Methodist Church in Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1934-44.
Between 1911 and 1918 Rev. Purcell served the following appointments: Madison Circuit, the Owenton Church (later renamed McCoy Memorial) in Birmingham, and First Methodist Church of Sylacauga.
He was an active member of First Methodist Church, the Army and Navy Legion of Valor, the Marine Corp League, Wheaton Camp, United Spanish War Veterans of San Jose and Major Randolph T. Zane Post 344, Veterans of Foreign Wars until his death.
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In 1863, Fiske entered the ministry for the Methodist Episcopal Church, served as pastor of the Methodist Episcopal in Jackson, 1863–66; of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church in Detroit, 1866–69; and of the First Methodist Church in Ann Arbor, 1869–72.