Re: Methodist Bishop named Bascom
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In reply to:
Re: Methodist Bishop named Bascom
7/03/99
I'm sorry I can't give the source for this:
"Henry Bidleman Bascom
1796-1850, American Methodist minister and college president, b. Hancock, N.Y. He became at an early age a preacher in the Ohio Methodist Conference and was a frontier circuit rider. Bascom was chaplain (1824-26) in the U.S. Congress, president (1826-29)of Madison College, Uniontown, Pa., professor (1832-42) of moral science at Augusta College, Augusta, Ky., and president (1842-49) of Transylvania Univ. At the convention of 1845 at which the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was organized, he played an important role. In 1850 he was elected a bishop of that church. He was the author of "Methodism and Slavery" 1847."
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