Matthew Simpson

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Matthew Simpson

Born	21 June 1811 Cadiz, Ohio
Died	18 June 1884

Matthew Simpson (June 21, 1811 - June 18, 1884), American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Cadiz, Ohio.

He studied medicine in 1830-1833 and began to practice, and in 1833 was licensed as a preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was pastor of the Liberty Street Church of Pittsburgh in 1835, and of a church at Williamsport (now Monongahela, Pennsylvania) in 1836.

In 1837 he was ordained elder and was appointed Professor of Natural Science in Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania in which Madison College had been merged in 1833; and in 1838 he was elected Professor and immediately afterwards President of the newly established Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) University, 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 temperance and anti-slavery organ, from 1848 to 1852. He was elected a bishop in May 1852, and in 1857, with Dr McClintock, visited Great Britain as a delegate to the British Wesleyan Conference, and travelled in the Holy Land. He was an intimate and trusted friend of President Lincoln, who considered his advice of great value, and at whose grave in Springfield he spoke the last words. He addressed the Garfield Memorial Meeting at Exeter Hall, London, on September 24, 1881.

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He published:

A Hundred Years of Methodism (1876)
a Cyclopedia of Methodism (1858)
Lectures on Preaching (1879), delivered before the Theological Department of Yale College

A volume of his Sermons (1885) was edited by George R Crooks, whose Life of Bishop Matthew Simpson (New York, 1890) should be consulted.

Preceded by: Thomas Asbury Morris	Ohio United Methodist Bishops 1852	Succeeded by: Edward Raymond Ames

[edit] See also

List of Bishops of the United Methodist Church

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