Bishop Matthew Tingley Simpson and Ellen Holmes Verner

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Husband Bishop Matthew Tingley Simpson ¹

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           Born: 21 Jun 1811 - Cadiz, Harrison Co, OH 1
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           Died: 18 Jun 1884 1
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         Father: James Simpson (      -1812) 1
         Mother: Sarah Tingley (1781-      ) 1

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       Marriage: 3 Nov 1835 1

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Wife Ellen Holmes Verner ^{1 2}

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           Died: Aft 1889
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         Father: James Verner (Abt 1783-1854) 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Doyle (Abt 1785-Abt 1856) 2

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Bishop Matthew Tingley Simpson

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He was a delegate to the British Wesleyan Conference, which met in Berlin. He was a close friend of President Lincoln, and was frequently sent for to go to Washington, where his opinions and advice were sought and often followed. Immediately after the assassination of President Lincoln, Bishop Simpson was summoned to Washington by Mrs. Lincoln to render such service as he could to the stricken family. Then when all was over and the remains of the martyred President reached the final resting place in Springfield, he preached the last words over his friend. He was one of the Methodist pioneers, whose help in building up the country, and instilling into the settlers principles of patriotism, along with their tenets of Methodism, it would be hard to estimate. He has been lovingly referred to as "The Napoleon of Methodism". He was in England at the time of President Garfield's death, and was called upon to speak at the memorial meeting held in Exeter Hall, London. His address was long referred to as the greatest one ever delivered in England, by an American. He died and Bishop Randolph S. Foster said of him in concluding his funeral address, "There never has been a Bishop of any Church who wielded so great an influence in National affairs as Bishop Simpson has exerted, nor do I believe there ever will be another who will exert so great an influence on the nation as he."

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General Notes: Wife - Ellen Holmes Verner

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from Pittsburgh, PA; Philadelphia, PA

1 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 632.

2 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 272.