John Atkinson (December 6, 1835,
Deerfield, New York
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The Town of Deerfield is on the eastern border of the county and northeast of the City of Utica.
History
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- December 8, 1897,
Haverstraw, New York
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) was an American Methodist clergyman and historian. He wrote histories of Methodism, and the hymn "We Shall Meet Beyond the River".
Biography
He became a preacher at 18 years of age and served in the ministry of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
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. He filled pulpits in New Jersey (
Newark
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,
Jersey City
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Bay City, Michigan
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; and finally Haverstraw, New York; after another pass through Newark and Jersey City.
Works
Works deriving from his pastoral experience:
* ''The Living Way'' (1856)
*
The Garden of Sorrows' (1868)
*
The Class Leader' (1875)
Histories:
*
Memorials of Methodism in New Jersey' (1860)
*
The Centennial History of American Methodism, 1784-1816' (1884)
*
The History of the Wesleyan Movement in America and of the Establishment Therein of Methodism' (1896)
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1835 births
1897 deaths
American historians of religion
American Methodist clergy
19th-century Methodist ministers
19th-century American clergy