Calvin Kingsley was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church elected in 1864.
12 Facts About Calvin Kingsley
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Calvin Kingsley was converted at the age of 18 in the Methodist Church of Ellington, New York.
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In 1841 Calvin Kingsley married Delia Deborah Scudder, the daughter of Captain Marvin and Deborah Scudder.
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Rev Calvin Kingsley was appointed to Saegertown, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, and Meadville, Pennsylvania.
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Calvin Kingsley was a Professor of Mathematics at Allegheny College.
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Calvin Kingsley was then appointed pastor at Erie, Pennsylvania.
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In 1844 Rev Calvin Kingsley successfully debated someone of the Universalist faith.
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Calvin Kingsley returned to teaching mathematics at Allegheny, becoming vice president of the college in 1855.
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Calvin Kingsley was elected the same year as Bishops Clark and Thomson, all three of whom died in their first quadrennium of episcopal leadership.
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Between 1869 and 1870, Calvin Kingsley embarked on a trip around the world in the cause of missionary work.
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Calvin Kingsley was stricken by a heart attack while visiting the Holy Land, and died on 6 April 1870 in Beirut, Syria, at the age of fifty-seven.
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Calvin Kingsley was buried in Beirut in the Prussian Protestant Cemetery, where the Methodist Church erected a monument in his memory.