Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-06-30
BISHOP SIMPSON.
Passing Away Quietly, Surrounded nv
His family-tIs Career in
the Church.

ntcu street, az twenty minutes to q |.
o'clock yesterday morning. He /
passed away unconscious. moi
having spoken since Sunday morn
ing. Sometimes during the last DAYS
ne was thought to show some sign Of
recognition, but whether he ACTUALLY
knew or not that he was being called
" his account could not be determined
Ills wife, his son and all his daughters. |
except one. were at his bedside when
ne died. The cause OF death was ex-
haustion, due 10 overwork and his |
great age.
All through yesterday dispatches
aud messages OF coincidence came 10 |
the house. One was from Gov. Patti.
son aud another from ex-President |
Hayes. Prominent among the callers
were Bishop Stevens. Gen. Clinton b. |
fiske arrived from Seabright carly |
In the day and took the care Of the
bishops fu eral rites from his family. |
| Bishop Simpson win be buried from
the Arch street Methodist church prob
ably on next Tuesday. He leaves
wife, son and four daughters. The
Oldest daughter Is the wife Of Col.
James II. Weaver of West Virginia,
United States consul general at Vienna.
The second daughter Is the wife of
Rev. Charles w. Buoy, pastor Of Eb-
enezer church, this city. Sybil and
Ida, the two otner daughters. are UNI
married. The son, Werner Simpson, Is
alawyer OF this city and was assistant
city solicitor during Mr.. Vests term.
BISHOP SIMPSONS CAREER.
Bishop Matthew Simpson was the
senior bishop of the Methodist Eplsco-
pal church, having been elected to that
office by the general conference held
in Bcston in MAY, 1852. He was born
in Cadiz, Ohio, June 81, 1911, having
very nearly reached his seventy-third
! birthday. He was the son Of James
Simpson and Sarah Tingley. James
Simpson, the father, was of
} Irish birth, having emigrated
to this country with his
parents when only thirteen years of
age. The family first settled In Hunt
ingdon county, Pa, afterwards remov-
, ing to Pittsburg, and finally to Cadiz.
Ohio, where James, the father
of the subject Of the pres
ent sketch, was married TO Sarah
Tingley, the daughter of n revolution.
AIRY soldier. There We're born of this
marriage three children Matthew and
two daughters. Matthew completed
his education at Madison college
Pennsylvania, since merged into AL
legheny college, Meadville.
4 After graduating he studied medi-
> cine and began pract ce In 1885, being
e then but twer ty.two years of age. III,
had been converted while in college
: and soon became impressed with the
v idea that he was called to preach tn
! gospel. Without previous traininl
= beyond his classical studies at colleg
n he was admitted to the Pittsburi
e conference in 1888, and giVer
the circuit in which h
lived. The following year he was sta
toned at Pittsburg, " here he remained
two years, during which time he wa
married to Miss Ellen III. Werner. III
was appointed by the conference
1886 to the Monongahela City charge
a which was his last pastoral charge AM
|. where he remained but one year. haV
II ing been elected vice-president aud pr
1. lessor of natural sciences for Alleghen
D. college. This position he filled tw
years, being elected In 1889 presider
a of the Indiana Asbury universit,
which Office he continued to I'LL Il
I. nine years. In ls4S he was chose
a editor of the Western Christian Adv
10 cate aud removed to Cincinnati, Min
that responsible position for fol
wears. At the Boston general COME
to ence in 1852 he was chosen bisho
having nearly completed his fortiel
wear, eighteen years of which he hi
spent as prescher, teacher and edito
ONE OF THE EARLY BISHOPS.
ID Al the time of his election to Il
m episcopacy Waugh, Morris and Jan,
he were the only active bishops. Scot
er Rsker and AInes were elevated TO II
episcopacy along with him, mako
N the number of active bishops seve
II ali of whom he survived. During u
,p ensuing year he received the degree
doctor Of divinity from the w,
he leyan university, and subsequent
ie- that of LII. ID. was bestow'
lie mon him by the same
stitution. The general conferen
which met at indianapolis in IL
Ilf elected him fraternsl delegate TO
o irish and British conferences, the =
sions of which he attended IN the u
lowing year. While abroad at u
time he visited Berlin AS delegi
No. 70 the Evangelical alliance, az
nnSS which he spent year traveli
III IN Europe. Asia, Palestine u
:, Eyvnt returning very mu
Vi dab;litated in health. After resti np
uear he was elected president of I
~ Jarrett Biblical Institute at Evansto
re- ILL.,, where he moved Win ms iaa
- from Pittsburg. Owing 70 tne nea
,v demands made upon his uine ia
ayy performances Of his episcopal duties
Id was unable TO give much persona.
he peryision TO the affairs OF the His.l
an ton. however. When the war pro
- out and the fate OF the nation tre
bled In the balance Bishop Stmp'
a. became one OF the stsh
~ ~ ct friends OF the Union eau
he being able by his great ipiuence
Nv throw the whole weight OF
methodist body north OF Mason
nixon q line into the scale on tne
of LOYALTY TO the government. ne
tho trusfed confidential adviser OF d
IN president Lincoln and Secretary ~
riv ton and early urged the president
~ smancipate the slaves. When
,ad nrssident was assassinsted he ole
,,is ,ha nrayer before the funeral pro-
Us Ion stsrted from the White DO
n n and delivered the address at Spri
field when the body was deposited
but the tomb. on
," After the Inauguration Of presla
rohnsnn he was urged by Secret
u.o ,,antn, 10 organize the Freedm'
i'cc D.arasm which he declined TO do, "a
YEN a,,id involve the neglect OF his
s ~""u work. upon which his heart
d 6red. For a like reason he decli
ne appointment OF commissioner
red san Domingo rendered him
nut en- Grant. He was selected
- Wv" tha work assigned