Coleman, Andrew (2)
Coleman, Andrew (1)
an extraordinary young Irish Methodist preacher, was born in Coleraine, County Antrim. At the age of seventeen he had mastered the usual studies of a college curriculum. He was converted under the ministry of Thomas Barber, a Wesleyan evangelist; in 1785 was recommended to the Dublinl Conference, and sent to the Sligo Circuit. After a few months’ exhausting labor he returned to Coleraine, and died, June 18, 1786, aged eighteen years. Coleman’s was a lovely character humble, modest, affectionate, and thoroughly consecrated. He had a brilliant mind and a wonderful memory. See Etheridge, Life of Dr. Adam Clarke, page 51; Clarke, Miscellaneous Works (edited by Everett), 12:348; Everett, Wesleyan Centenary Takings, 1:229.
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Coleman, Andrew (2)
a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in West Virginia, April 5, 1790. He entered the Pittsburgh Conference in 1825; in 1842 was transferred to the Rock River Conference; in 1844 became a member of the Iowa Conference, and in 1856 of the Upper Iowa Conference. The following were his appointments: Dubuque, Rock Island, Burlington, Burlington District, De Moines District, Pittsburgh Circuit, Iowa City District, Pioneer Circuit, Lisbon, De Witt, Cedar Rapids, Rockdale, La Motte, Iowa City Circuit, De Witt Circuit. In 1872 he became superannuated, and resided at Oskaloosa, Iowa, where he died, May 4, 1881. Mr. Coleman was an eminently godly man, of catholic spirit and ardent zeal. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1881, page 321.