Bishop Calvin Kingsley

1812 - 1870  (57 years)

• Name	Calvin Kingsley
  Prefix	Bishop
  Birth	8 Sep 1812	Annsville, Oneida, New York
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Apr 1870	Beyrouth, Syria
  Person ID	I7542	Scudder
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2003

  
  

  Family	Delia Deborah Scudder,   b. 12 Feb 1818, Victor, Ontario, New York d. 31 Oct 1887, Beyrout, Turkey (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	1841	Pennsylvania
  Children	1. Emory C. Kingsley   2. Willis S. Kingsley   3. Florence E. Kingsley   4. Deborah Eliza Kingsley,   b. 1843, Annsville, Oneida, New York d. 1927 (Age 84 years)   5. Francis A. Kingsley,   b. 3 Dec 1848, Erie, Pennsylvania d. 24 Apr 1907, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Age 58 years)   6. Mary Blanche Kingsley,   b. Est 1841   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Ellen Kingsley,   b. Est 1843   d. Yes, date unknown   8. Martha Kingsley,   b. Est 1845   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F2754	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  In 1826 Calvin's family Moved to Ellington, Chautauqua county, New York, where for the first time he met with the Methodists, and at eighteen years of age he became a member of that church. He felt called to the ministry but it was difficult. He was needed on the farm and there were no schools for him to attend. His first books were purchased with the money he made making maple-sugar, and by the time he was 23 he was licensed to exhort, and two years afterwards to preach. After teaching for several years he graduated from Alleghany College, Pennsylvania, in 1841, and was at once employed in its faculty, and also admitted on trial to the Erie conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. The next year he was chosen professor of mathematics and civil engineering, and during the years 1843-44 he acted as financial agent for the college. Calvin was elected a delegate to the general conference in 1852, and afterward to each quadrennial session of that body, until in May 1864 he was elected bishop. In 1856 he was chosen editor of the "Western Christian Advocate" at Cincinnati, where he remained eight years. At the general conference of 1860 he was chairman of the committee on slavery, and took an active part in defining the anti-slavery position of the church. His labors in the episcopacy called him to travel extensively, not only over every part of this country, but also in foreign lands. He undertook the first missionary tour around the world by a Methodist bishop. In 1865-'6 he held the conferences on the Pacific coast, and in 1867 he visited the missions in Europe. In 1869 he again visited California and Oregon, then passed to China, and thence to India, intending to return by way of Europe, but died before his purpose could be carried out. He died suddenly in April 1870 at Beirut, on the coast of Syria . His tomb is at the foot of the Lebanon mountains , forming a bond between the churches in America and Asia. His published works are a review of " Bush on the Resurrection" (Cincinnati, 1847); and "Round the World" (1870), the latter a posthumous work.