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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.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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