Thomas A Morris

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Thomas A Morris

Thomas A Morris, late a Bishop of the M.E. Church, was born at Brownstown, Kanawha county, Virginia, April 24, 1794. He was almost entirely a self-educated man; never attended school but a few months in his life; was licensed to preach in 1814; was admitted into the Ohio Conference, which at that time embraced the Great Kanawha valley, in 1816; was transferred to Kentucky Conference; elected a delegate to General Conference in 1824; returned to Ohio Conference and stationed in Cincinnati; served as presiding elder; was elected editor of The Western Christian Advocate in 1834, and made a Bishop in 1836. He was one of the very great men of Methodism in the United States. He died September 2, 1874, having served 37 years a Bishop in his church. A large number of his relatives now reside in the Kanawha valley.

Taken from Prominent Men of West Virginia, Geo. W Atkinson and Alvaro F Gibbens, W.L. Callin Publishing, Wheeling, WV, 1890.