Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-19
CONVENTION LEADERS.
Those Who Were Prominent in the
League Councils.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
TORONTO, July II, 1897
OF the hundreds of prominent Methodists
men and women. from every part of the
United States and the Dominion who were
delegates to the convention, the following
were considered the leaders:
Bishop John +. Hurst of the Methodist
Episcopal Church chancellor of the Amer
lean University, Washington, ID. c., was
born near Salem. Md, August II. 1894. He
was educated at Dickinson College Carlisle
Pa. and in the Universities of Halle and
Heidelberg, Germany. He entered the min
istry in 1858. occupying pastorates for eight
years in New Jersey and Staten Island.
He was professor of the oIogy in the Mis-
to 1869 and in Martin Mission Institute
Frankfort from 1869 to 1871. He then be-
came professor Of historical theology in
Drew Theological College, Madison n. J.
and after eight years was elected presI-
dent. which position he occupied for eight
years, when he was elected bishop in 1850.
During recent years Bishop Hurst has
given special attention to the American
University, the interests Of which he has
greatly promoted through the press and
on the platform.
Governor of Keystone State.
Gen. Daniel II. Hastings. governor of
Pennsylvania, was born in Clinton county,
that state, February g. 1919. He was the
youngest of five sons. At the age of four
teen he was doing a mans work on the
farm. At the common schools of the neigh
borhood he acquired all the learning they
could furnish, and in 1863, before he was
fifteen years old, learning of a school that
had no teacher. he walked twenty miles
through the snow was examined, and got
the position. He made his mark as a
teacher, and in 1867 went to Bellefonte as
principal of the academy. Choosing law as
his profession, he was admitted to the bar
in 1919. He practiced until 1888, when he
gave UP his profession and associated him
self with ex-Gov. James A. Beaver and
others, in the development of coal fields
At the time of the Johnstown flood. Gen
eral Hastings was placed in charge of the
relief operations. and his work was given
freely. unwearedly and without pay or re-
ward
Governor Hastings entered the Methodist
Episcopal Church in boyhood and has been
for twenty years trustee of the Belle
fonte congregation. He is a member of the
general church extension board of the
Methodist Episcopal Church and a trustee
of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa AS an
orator his services are in great demand,
and many of his addresses have attracted
marked attention by their eloquence and
breadth of thought.
Southern Bishop.
Rev. o. P. Fitzgerald, DID,. bishop Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South. resides
at Nashville. Tenn. He was born in Cas-
well county. N. c.. August "a, 1920, and
was educated in the county schools, ending
with Oak Grove Academy" somewhat IA
nous In its day. He entered the ministry
IN 1888. Bishop Fitzgerald was a mission
airy In the mines of California in the early
days; He has been editor at intervals OF
the Pacific Methodist the Christian specta-
tor. the California Teacher aud the Chris
ttan Advocate. the official organ OF the NJ.
f. Church South Of the last four years.