Stephen Mason Merrill

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Stephen Mason Merrill (1825 – 1905) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1872.

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[edit] Birth and Ordained Ministry

Born on 16 September 1825 at Mount Pleasant, Ohio, Merrill was the grandson of a Minute-Man of the American Revolution. He served with distinction as a pastor and presiding elder in the Ohio Annual Conference. He was the Editor of the Western Christian Advocate (an official publication of his denomination) when elected Bishop.

[edit] Episcopal Ministry

Merill was elected to the episcopacy the same year as another Ohio-born M.E. Bishop, Randolph Sinks Foster. Bishop Merrill became an acknowledged authority on Methodist law. One might say he was pre-eminently the jurist of the Episcopal college.

[edit] Death and Burial

Bishop Merrill died on 12 November 1905 in Keyport, New York. He is buried in Rose Hill Cemetery[1] in Chicago.

[edit] References

  • Methodism: Ohio Area (1812-1962), edited by John M. Versteeg, Litt.D., D.D. (Ohio Area Sesquicentennial Committee, 1962).

[edit] See also


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