hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 2 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for February 23rd, 1832 AD or search for February 23rd, 1832 AD in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vincent, John Heyl 1832- (search)
Vincent, John Heyl 1832- Clergyman; born in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Feb. 23, 1832; began to preach when eighteen years old; joined the New Jersey Conference in 1853; ordained deacon in 1855; elder in 1857, when he was transferred to Rock River Conference; held pastorates in Galena, Chicago, and other cities in 1857-65; established the Northwest Sunday-School quarterly in 1865; corresponding secretary of the Sunday-school union in 1868-84; one of the founders and chancellor of the Chautauqua Assembly and of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. He was elected a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1888. He wrote The Chautauqua movement; The Church at home; The modern Sunday-School, etc.