Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-11-08
BISHOP COODSELL ASSIGNED
To Preside Over Wilmington
and Delaware Conferences.
BOTH WILL MEET NEXT SPRING
Former at Seaford, Latter at
Atlantic City.
The Session'of the wilmington Conference
VIII Begin on March goth, and the Della
ware Conference will Convene on April
ISth-Sketch of the Bishop.

The semi annual session Of the Board
of Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, held at Trenton, N. j., closed
M nday. Bishop Daniel Ayres Good
sell was assigned to preside at the
annual session of the Wilmington Con-
ference, which will be held at Seaford,
beginning March goth. and also at the
annual session of the Delaware Con-
ference, colored, which will be held at
Atlantic City, beginning April 18th.
Daniel Ayres Goodsell, d. d., was
bonn at Newburg, N. Y, November
9Th, 1910. He was educated at the
University of New York City, COM
plotting his course of study there in
1853, in which year he joined the New
York East Conference. He labored in
the pastorate until 1887. He was a
delegate to the General Conferences of
1876, 1880, 1884 and 1888. He was
elected editor of Zion's Herald in the
spring of 1887, and accepted the position
with the understanding that his new
duties would btgin January LIST, 1888.
A demand Tor his services as secretary
of the Board of Education having been
made, he was released from his pros
pective editorial work, and began his
secretaryship July ist, 1887. He was
elected bishop in 1888, at the same
time that James N. Fitzgerald. Isaac W,
Joyce, the late John p. Newman, John
Ii. Vincent and james M. Thot urn
were elevated to the episcopacy. He
ranks as one of the best bishops of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
was one of the youngest men elected to
the bishopric. He possesses consider
able executive ability, and is a great
preacher. He has been frequent con-
tributor to religious periodical litsra-
tute
His assignments to preside at the
session of the Wilmington Conference,
Presiding Elder Watt says, will give
great satisfaction. Bishop Goodsell has
never presided at session of the Will
mington Conference or the Delaware
Conference. He resides at Chattanooga,
Tenn. He celebrated the Goth anniver-
sary of his birthday Yesterday.
The following assignments also were
made yesterday by the Board of
Bishops:
Alabama, Boaz. December 9Th, Fitzgerald,
Atlanta, Atlanta, December 9Th, Nfnde.
Austin, San Antonoi, Tex, December
18th, Joyce.
Central Alabama, Mobile, November 10Th,
Fitzgerald.
Georgia, Tallapoosa, December 10th,
Ninde.
Savannah, Waynesboro, December 18th,
Ninde.
South Carolina, Burlington, December
18th, Fitzgerald.
Southern German, Waco, Tex, November
10Th, Joyce.
Texas, Marshall. December 9TH, Joyce.
West Texas, Victoria, December 10Th,
Joyce.
Arkansas, Texarkana, January s1st Warren.
Baltimore, Hagerstown, March 9th,
Cranston.
Central Missouri, Fort Scott, Kan, March
9th, Andrews
Central Pennsylvania, Chambersburg,
March 18th, Foss.
East German, Troy, N. ", April 18th,
Nine.
East Maine, Clinton, Me-, April 4th,
Joyce.
Florida, Tampa, January 18th, Mallalieu.
Gulf Mission, Jennings, La, January
18th, Warren.
Kansas, Topeka, March 18th, Merrill.
Lexington, indianapolis, March 9th,
Little Rock Brinkley, February eth,
Warren.
Louisiana, Shreveport, January 23d,
Warren.
Maine, Yarmouth, Me-, April oath, Fitz-
gerald.
Mississippi, Moss Point, Miss, January
23d, Hurst.
Missouri, Maryville, Mo-, March 18th,
Andrews.
Newark, Hoboken, N. j., March 9th,
Foss.
New England. -, April 10th, Cranston.
New England, Southern Taunton, Mass,
New Hampshire, settletoy, N. H., April
| 18th, Fitzgerald.
New Jersey, Camden, March 9Th, MALTA
lieu.
New York, -. April 10th. Goodsell.
New Y,rk, East Brooklyn, April 10th,
| Fitzgerald.
North Dakota, Fargo, N. D., April oath,
| Walden.
Northern New York, Mexico, N. Y, April
18th, Fowler.
North Indiana, Ellwood, Ind, April 10th,
Merrill.
Northwest Kansas, Ellsworth, Kan, April
Philadelphia, stroudsburg, Pa, March
| 10th, Joyce.
st. Johns River, ST. Augustine, Fla,
January, Malalieu.
st. Louis, Bolivar, No., March 10th,
| Andrews.
South Kansas, Eureka, Kan., March 10th,
| Walden.
Southwest Kansas, Newton, Kan., March
9th, Walden.
Troy; Saratoga Springs, N. Y, April
| 10th. Hurst.
Upper Mississippi, Aberdeen, Miss, Janu-
ary 10th Hurst.
Vermont. Lyndonville, VT, April 18th,
Cranston.
Virginia. Roucerverte, W. Va, March
9Th, Fowler.
Washington, Wheeling, W. Va, March
9Th, Fowler.
Wyoming, West Pittston, Pa. April 10th,