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MATTHEW SIMPSON (1811-1884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 135 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MATTHEW See also:SIMPSON (1811-1884)  , See also:American See also:bishop of the Methodist Episcopal See also:Church, was See also:born in See also:Cadiz, See also:Ohio, on the 21st of See also:June 1811 . He studied See also:medicine in 1830-1833 and began to practise, and in 1833 was licensed as a preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church . He was pastor of the See also:Liberty See also:Street Church of See also:Pittsburg in 1835, and of a church at See also:Williams-See also:port (now See also:Monongahela) in 1836 . In 1837 he was ordained See also:elder and was appointed See also:professor of natural See also:science in See also:Allegheny See also:College, See also:Meadville, in which See also:Madison College had been merged in 1833; and in 1838 he was elected professor and immediately afterwards See also:president of the newly established See also:Indiana See also:Asbury (now De Pauw) University, See also:Greencastle, Indiana, to which he went in 1839; this position he held until 1848 . He was editor of the Western See also:Christian See also:Advocate, which he made a strong See also:temperance and See also:anti-See also:slavery See also:organ, from 1848 to 1852 . He was elected a bishop in May 1852, and in 1857, with Dr See also:McClintock, visited See also:Great See also:Britain as a delegate to the See also:British Wesleyan See also:Conference, and travelled in the See also:Holy See also:Land . He was an intimate and trusted friend of President See also:Lincoln, who considered his See also:advice of great value, and at whose See also:grave in See also:Springfield he spoke the last words . He addressed the See also:Garfield Memorial See also:Meeting at See also:Exeter See also:Hall, See also:London, on the 24th of See also:September 1881 . He died on the 18th of June 1884 in See also:Philadelphia . He published A See also:Hundred Years of See also:Methodism (1876) ; a Cyclopedia of Methodism (1878) ; Lectures on See also:Preaching (1879), delivered before the Theological See also:Department of Yale College; and a See also:volume of his Sermons (1885) was edited by See also:George R . Crooks, whose See also:Life of Bishop See also:Matthew See also:Simpson (New See also:York, 189o) should be consulted .

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