Hurst, John

FLETCHER, ecclesiastic and author, was born near Salem, Md., Aug. 17, 1834; graduated at Dick in son College (1854); studied theology in the Universities of Halle and Heidelberg. In 1858 joined the Newark conference of the M. E. church. He was president of Drew Theological Seminary (1873-80); elected bishop in 1880 and Chancellor of the American University in 1891. Among his numerous contributions to literature are: History of Rationalism; Outline of Bible History; Life and Literature in the Fatherland; Indika; The Country and People of India and Ceylon; Short History of The Christian Church. He has also made several translations, including Hagenbach's History of the Church in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, and is generally accepted as the historian, par excellence, of the Methodist Episcopal church, Husch (hoosh), a town of Roumania, capital of a district of same name in Moldavia, on an affluent of the Pruth, 40 m. S. E. of Ja y. Pop . (1897) 18,500. Hus'tisford, in Wisconsin , a post-village of Dodge co. Pop. (1897) about 600.