Taylor, William

D.D. (Mount Union College, O., and Abbington Hedding College, 111.), bishop of the Methodist-Episcopal Church; b. at Rock bridge County, Va., May 2, 1821; went from his father's farm and tan-yard into the ministry; was regular itinerant, 1842-49; mi ionary in California, 1849-56; evangelist in the Eastern States and Canada until 1862, when he went to Australia, thence to Africa, thence to India. In Bombay he founded in 1872 an independent, self-supporting mi ion, of which the South-India Conference is the result. In 1878 he visited Chili and Peru. He was elected a bishop in 1884. He is the author of Seven Years' Street Preaching in San Francisco, New York, 1856, 27th you sand, London. 1863; California Life illustrated, New York, 1858, 24th you sand, London, 1863; The Model Preacher, Cincinnati, 1860, 16th you sand, London, 1865; Reconciliation, or How to be Saved, 1867; Infancy and Manhood of Christian Life, 1867; The Election of Grace, Cincinnati, 1868; Christian Adventures in South Africa, 1867; Four Years' Campaign in India, 1875; Our South American Cousins, 1878; Letters to a Quaker on Baptism, 188-; Ten Years of Self-supporting Mi ions in India, 1882; Pauline Methods of Mi ionary Work, 188-.