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Show 11 BEFORE m 11 1 PUBLIC EYE I BISHOP J. F. HURST IS DEAD. Shock of McKinley's Death Brought Illness That Proved Fatal. Bishop John Fletcher Hurst of the Methodist Episcopal church died at Washington last week. Bishop Hurst had been in failing health for nearly two years and for more than a year it had been recog- ', nized that a fatal termination of his malady was but a question of months. He was stricken with paralysis in London Lon-don in September, 1901, when attending attend-ing the ecumenical conference. The I news of President McKinlev'a assassi- nation prostrated him and the shock rapidly brought on a decline. Bishop Hurst was born in Dorchester Dorches-ter county, Maryland, Aug. 17, 1834. He was graduated from Dickinson college in 1854 and after teaching for two years pursued theological studies at the Universities of Halle and Heid- elberg, Germany. He returned to this country in 1858 and entered on the work of the ministry in the Newark conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1866 he again went to Germany Ger-many to become a theological instructor instruct-or in the Methodist Mission institute at Bremen. He remained there for three years, serving both as t,eacher and director for the institution. In 1871 he returned to the United States, having been elected professor of historical his-torical theology in Drew Theological pqminary, Madison, N. Y., and in 1873 .e was chosen president of that institution. insti-tution. Here he continued till 1880, - vhen at the general conference in Cincinnati he was elected and ordained ordain-ed a bishop. He was appointed president presi-dent of the American university at Washington when it was organized. |