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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Asbury , Francis , 1745 -1816 (search)
Asbury, Francis, 1745-1816
First bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America; born at Handsworth, Staffordshire, England. Aug. 26, 1745.
In his twenty-third year he became an itinerant preacher under the guidance of John Wesley, and came to the United States in 1771.
The next year Wesley appointed him general superintendent of the Methodist churches in America, and he held that office until the close of the Revolution, when the Methodists here organized as a body separate from the Church in England. Mr. Asbury was consecrated bishop by Dr. Coke in 1784.
After that, for thirty-two years, he travelled yearly through the United States, ordaining not less than 3,000 ministers, and preaching not less than 17.000 sermons.
He died in Spottsylvania, Va., March 31, 1816.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Boehler , Peter , 1712 -1775 (search)
Boehler, Peter, 1712-1775
Clergyman: born in Frankfort, Germany, Dec. 31, 1712: was graduated at Jena in 1736; ordained a Moravian minister in 1737; and was sent as an evangelist to Carolina and Georgia in 1738.
On his way he became acquainted with John and Charles Wesley, upon whom he exercised great influence.
Indeed. John Wesley records in his diary that Boehler was the person through whom he was brought to believe in Christ.
The Moravian colony in Georgia was broken up and removed to Pennsylvania in 1740.
He was consecrated bishop in 1748 and superintended the Moravian churches in America in 1 753-64, when he was recalled to Germany.
He died in London, England, April 27, 1775.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oglethorpe , James Edward 1698 -1785 (search)
Rankin, Thomas 1738-
Clergyman; born in Scotland in 1738; became a Methodist preacher in 1761; sent to America by John Wesley in 1773.
He presided over the first Methodist conference held in the United States, in July, 1773.
During the Revolution he sympathized with Great Britain, and in consequence was obliged to return to England.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Spiritualism , or spiritism , (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wesley , John 1703 -1791 (search)
Wesley, John 1703-1791
Founder of the Methodist Church; born in Epworth, Lincolnshire, June 17, 1703; was educated at Oxford University, and ordained deacon in 1725.
In 1730 he and his brother Charles, with a few other students, formed a society on principles of greater austerity and methodical religious life than then prevailed in the university.
They obtained the name of Methodists, and Wesley became the leader of the association.
In 1735 the celebrated Whitefield joined the society, and he and Wesley accompanied Oglethorpe to Georgia to preach the Gospel to the Indians in 1736.
Through the arts and falsehoods of two women Charles fell into temporary disgrace.
Oglethorpe, satisfied with his explanation, sent him
John Wesley. to England as bearer of despatches to the trustees.
John remained and became pastor of the church at Savannah.
He was a strict constructionist of the rubrics of the prayer-book, for he had not then begun his labors as the founder of a new sect.