John Heyl Vincent (February 23, 1832 – May 9, 1920) was an American

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of the

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. He was born at

Tuscaloosa Tuscaloosa ( ) is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in west-central Alabama, United States, on the Black Warrior River where the Gulf Coastal and Piedmont plains meet. Alabama's fifth-largest city, it had an estimated population of 1 ...

, Ala., and was educated at Lewisburg (Pa.) Academy and at Wesleyan Institute,

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, N. J. He entered the New Jersey Conference in 1853, and was transferred to the Rock River Conference in 1857. He was

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of churches in

Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

and established the ''Northwest Sunday-School Quarterly'' (1865) and the ''Sunday-School Teacher'' (1866). He was corresponding secretary of the Sunday-school Union of his denomination and

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of its publications (1868–1884). In 1888, he was elected

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and was appointed Resident Bishop in

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in 1900, stationed at Zurich,

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; in 1904, he retired from the active episcopate. He was a co-founder of the Chautauqua Assembly (1874), and

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from its organization (1878). He published: *''The Chautauqua Movement'' (1886) *''The Church School and Its Officers'' (1886) *''Studies in Young Life'' (1890) *''A Study in

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'' (1890) *''Earthly Footsteps of the Man of Galilee'' (1894) *''Family Worship for Every Day in the Year'' (1905)

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