The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . y and was receivedinto the Baltimore Confer-ence in 1869. He was mark-edly successful in that calling,organizing eight new congre-gations and building fifteennew chapels and church
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . y and was receivedinto the Baltimore Confer-ence in 1869. He was mark-edly successful in that calling,organizing eight new congre-gations and building fifteennew chapels and churches inhis different fields of conference sent him torepresent it in the GeneralConferences of 1888 and was upon the executivecommittee of the centennialconference of 1884, and chair-man of the finance commit-tee of the second CEcumeni-cal Conference of Methodistswhich was held in October,1891, and is noted for hisinterest in the cause of for-eign missions. In 1890 was called to thepresidency of the Womans College of Baltimore, president of the board of trustees of the Cente-nary Biblical Institute, he has guided its developmentinto Morgan College, and has seen it housed in a finestone building in Baltimore, and two well appointedauxiliary schools established. He has also extricatedthe Martin Mission Institute at Frankfort-on-the-Main, in Germany, from its financial embarrass-. OF AMEKICAN BIOGRAPHY. 251 ments, and greatly increased its efficiency. In 1881he promoted tlie organization of the Anglo-JapaneseCollege at Tokio, Japan, securing for it a charterfroin the Japanese government, and the first con-cession for foreigners to reside outside the foreignreservation. He then purchased and presented tothe college twenty-five acres of land, with appropri-ate huildings which he caused to be built 1882 he planned and established primary vernac-ular schools at Rohilcund, India. These now include120 primary and secondary schools, 120 scholar
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