Anderson, John (4)
Anderson, John (2)
an eloquent Wesleyan minister of England, was born at Gibraltar, Spain, where his father was garrisoned, Jan. 28, 1791. He entered the Methodist Society in 1808, the ministry in 1812; travelled many of the prominent circuits, such as Reading (1819 ), Manchester (1821), London, West (1824), City Road (1827), Leeds (1830 ), Manchester (1833), Leeds, West (1835), and Liverpool, North; and died in Liverpool, after severe suffering, April 11, 1840. Anderson was one of the eminent men of the Methodism of his time, to the principles of which he was most firmly attached. He preferred the charges against Dr. S.Warren in 1834, and his name was prominent in that celebrated case. He was tender and ardent in his friend-‘ ships, fervent in his piety, and zealously devoted to the duties of his calling. Few men of his time exceeded him in the eloquence and power of his pulpit and platform efforts. A speech he delivered at Leeds in 1830 on the abolition of slavery was pronounced by lord (then Mr.) Brougham as the most eloquent and masterly he had ever heard on that subject. He is the subject of the third sketch in Everett’s 2d vol. of Wesleyan Takings. He published a Sermon, on the death of Adam Clarke (Leeds, 1832). See Minutes of British Conference, 1840; Wesleyan Meth. Mag. 1846, p. 417, 521; West, Sketches of Wesleyan Preachers, p. 322-335.
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Anderson, John (3)
an English Congregational minister, was born at Burnham Market, Norfolk, Feb. 22, 1797, and was trained in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. He was admitted into fellowship with the Church in 1816, and became much engaged in preaching in the neighboring villages. Mr. Anderson entered Hoxton College in 1817. In 1821 he commenced preaching at Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, and in 1824 was ordained first pastor of the Church in that place. In 1826 he accepted a call from the Church at Dorchester. In 1840 he removed to Caistor, Lincolnshire, and in 1852 to Wymondham, in his native county, Where he labored until his death, Sept. 5, 1866. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1867, p. 268.
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Anderson, John (4)
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Frederick County, Md., Dec. 24, 1803. He removed early in life to Pennsylvania, was converted in 1829, and in 1834 entered the Baltimore Conference. In 1839 he was transferred to the Missouri Conference. Upon the adhesion of the Missouri Conference to the Church South, he declined to accompany it, but labored, under the direction of the bishops, in Illinois until the Conference was reorganized. In 1854 he was retransferred to the Baltimore Conference, and upon its division in 1857 be became a member of the East Baltimore Conference, and continued such until his decease, Sept. 10, 1867. As a preacher, Mr. Anderson was clear, earnest, and successful; as a man, cheerful, and a favorite among the masses. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1868, p. 28.