Francis Asbury, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Francis Asbury

Methodist bishop in America

Date of Birth: 20-Aug-1745

Place of Birth: Hamstead, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 31-Mar-1816

Profession: priest, diarist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Francis Asbury (August 20 or 21, 1745 – March 31, 1816) was one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States.
During his 45 years in the colonies and the newly independent United States, he devoted his life to ministry, traveling on horseback and by carriage thousands of miles to those living on the frontier. Asbury spread Methodism in British colonial America as part of the Second Great Awakening.
He also founded several schools during his lifetime, although his own formal education was limited.
His journal is valuable to scholars for its account of frontier society, with references to many towns and villages in Colonial America.

John Paradise (1783–1833)
Description	American painter
Date of birth/death	1783	1833
Location of birth/death	Hunterdon County	Springfield Township
Authority control	: Q20127418 VIAF: 295771919 ISNI: 0000 0004 0014 9745 ULAN: 500027461 LCCN: nr99016511 WorldCat