Named Entity Results
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)

Simpson, Matthew 1810-1884 Clergyman; born in Cadiz, O., June 20, 1810; graduated at Madison College, Pennsylvania, in 1829; taught there in 1829-32; studied medicine and later theology; ordained and joined the Pittsburg conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1833; became vicepresident and Professor of Natural Science in Allegheny College in 1837; president of Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1839; elected bishop in 1852; and was employed by the government on several important confidential missions during the Civil War. He was author of A Hundred; Years of Methodism and an edition of The Western Christian advocate. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 18, 1884.

Simpson, Matthew 1810-1884 Clergyman; born in Cadiz, O., June 20, 1810; graduated at Madison College, Pennsylvania, in 1829; taught there in 1829-32; studied medicine and later theology; ordained and joined the Pittsburg conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1833; became vicepresident and Professor of Natural Science in Allegheny College in 1837; president of Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1839; elected bishop in 1852; and was employed by the government on several important confidential missions during the Civil War. He was author of A Hundred; Years of Methodism and an edition of The Western Christian advocate. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 18, 1884.

Simpson, Matthew 1810-1884 Clergyman; born in Cadiz, O., June 20, 1810; graduated at Madison College, Pennsylvania, in 1829; taught there in 1829-32; studied medicine and later theology; ordained and joined the Pittsburg conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1833; became vicepresident and Professor of Natural Science in Allegheny College in 1837; president of Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1839; elected bishop in 1852; and was employed by the government on several important confidential missions during the Civil War. He was author of A Hundred; Years of Methodism and an edition of The Western Christian advocate. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 18, 1884.

Simpson, Matthew 1810-1884 Clergyman; born in Cadiz, O., June 20, 1810; graduated at Madison College, Pennsylvania, in 1829; taught there in 1829-32; studied medicine and later theology; ordained and joined the Pittsburg conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1833; became vicepresident and Professor of Natural Science in Allegheny College in 1837; president of Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1839; elected bishop in 1852; and was employed by the government on several important confidential missions during the Civil War. He was author of A Hundred; Years of Methodism and an edition of The Western Christian advocate. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 18, 1884.

Simpson, Matthew 1810-1884 Clergyman; born in Cadiz, O., June 20, 1810; graduated at Madison College, Pennsylvania, in 1829; taught there in 1829-32; studied medicine and later theology; ordained and joined the Pittsburg conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1833; became vicepresident and Professor of Natural Science in Allegheny College in 1837; president of Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1839; elected bishop in 1852; and was employed by the government on several important confidential missions during the Civil War. He was author of A Hundred; Years of Methodism and an edition of The Western Christian advocate. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 18, 1884.

Simpson, Matthew 1810-1884 Clergyman; born in Cadiz, O., June 20, 1810; graduated at Madison College, Pennsylvania, in 1829; taught there in 1829-32; studied medicine and later theology; ordained and joined the Pittsburg conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1833; became vicepresident and Professor of Natural Science in Allegheny College in 1837; president of Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1839; elected bishop in 1852; and was employed by the government on several important confidential missions during the Civil War. He was author of A Hundred; Years of Methodism and an edition of The Western Christian advocate. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 18, 1884.

Simpson, Matthew 1810-1884 Clergyman; born in Cadiz, O., June 20, 1810; graduated at Madison College, Pennsylvania, in 1829; taught there in 1829-32; studied medicine and later theology; ordained and joined the Pittsburg conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1833; became vicepresident and Professor of Natural Science in Allegheny College in 1837; president of Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1839; elected bishop in 1852; and was employed by the government on severa1829-32; studied medicine and later theology; ordained and joined the Pittsburg conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1833; became vicepresident and Professor of Natural Science in Allegheny College in 1837; president of Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1839; elected bishop in 1852; and was employed by the government on several important confidential missions during the Civil War. He was author of A Hundred; Years of Methodism and an edition of The Western Christian advocate. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 18, 1884.

Simpson, Matthew 1810-1884 Clergyman; born in Cadiz, O., June 20, 1810; graduated at Madison College, Pennsylvania, in 1829; taught there in 1829-32; studied medicine and later theology; ordained and joined the Pittsburg conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1833; became vicepresident and Professor of Natural Science in Allegheny College in 1837; president of Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1839; elected bishop in 1852; and was employed by the government on several important confidential missions during the Civil War. He was author of A Hundred; Years of Methodism and an edition of The Western Christian advocate. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 18, 1884.

Simpson, Matthew 1810-1884 Clergyman; born in Cadiz, O., June 20, 1810; graduated at Madison College, Pennsylvania, in 1829; taught there in 1829-32; studied medicine and later theology; ordained and joined the Pittsburg conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1833; became vicepresident and Professor of Natural Science in Allegheny College in 1837; president of Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1839; elected bishop in 1852; and was employed by the government on several important confidential missions during the Civil War. He was author of A Hundred; Years of Methodism and an edition of The Western Christian advocate. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 18, 1884.

Simpson, Matthew 1810-1884 Clergyman; born in Cadiz, O., June 20, 1810; graduated at Madison College, Pennsylvania, in 1829; taught there in 1829-32; studied medicine and later theology; ordained and joined the Pittsburg conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1833; became vicepresident and Professor of Natural Science in Allegheny College in 1837; president of Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind., in 1839; elected bishop in 1852; and was employed by the government on several important confidential missions during the Civil War. He was author of A Hundred; Years of Methodism and an edition of The Western Christian advocate. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., June 18, 1884.