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

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