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[Up] [Dromo's Den] William McKendree Biography McKENDREE,
William (1757-1835). A Methodist Episcopal bishop. He was born in King
William Co., Va., July 6, 1,757; served in the Revolutionary War; was converted
and joined the Methodist church in 1787; became presiding elder in 1796, and
Bishop, the first one born in America, in 1808. He died near Nashville, Tenn.,
March 5, 1835. By reason of his travels with Bishop Asbury and as superintendent
of the societies in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, and Illinois, and as
Bishop, he was well known to Methodists, especially in those States. His Life by Paine (Nashville, 1869; new ed., 1875) is consequently an
important source of early Methodist history. The New International
Encyclopaedia, Vol. XIV
(New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920)
583.
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