Simpson, Matthew
bishop, author, was born June 20, 1811, in Cadiz, Ohio.
He was a methodist bishop famous as a pulpit orator; and the author of Lectures on Preaching; A Hundred Years of Methodism; Sermons; and Cyclopædia of Methodism.
During 1839-49 he was president of the Indiana Asbury university, now called the De Pauw univer- He rendered sity. vast services to the country during the civil war; was often sent for to visit Washington; and as early as 1861 he had suggested the necessity of an emancipation proclamation. He died June 18, 1884, in Philadelphia, Pa.