Beverly Waugh

Beverly Waugh (1789 - 1858) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (and therefore also of the United Methodist Church), elected in 1836.

He was born on 28 October, 1789 in Fairfax County, Virginia, U.S.A., the son of a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. At the age of fifteen he was converted to the Christian faith and became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Alexandria, Virginia. It is believed that he was employed as a clerk in a government office for three or four years, given the excellent penmanship and accuracy of his accounts throughout his life. From the time he was eighteen until shortly before his death he kept a journal which, in the end, amounted to several manuscript volumes.

He entered the traveling ministry in 1808, uniting with the Baltimore Annual Conference in 1809. After three years he was stationed in the city of Washington. He was a delegate to the General Conferences of 1816 and 1820, representing the Baltimore Annual Conference. For the 1824 General Conference, because he was in favor of an elected Presiding Eldership (which the majority of his conference did not approve) he was not elected a delegate. In 1828 he was again elected a member, and was, at that time, chosen Assistant Editor and Agent of the Book Concern of the M.E. Church, resulting in his removal to New York City. In 1832 he was made the principal agent, through not a member of the General Conference that year. In 1836 he was elected a Bishop.

As a Bishop he traveled almost constantly. He organized Rock River, Texas, with nine members, and other Annual Conferences. He became the Senior Bishop of the Church in 1852.

After preaching at Carlisle, Pennsylvania for several days in January, 1858, he was seized with erysipelas and died on 9 February, 1858 in Baltimore. He was buried in the Mount Olivet cemetery in Baltimore, near the graves of Bishops Asbury and Emory.

Selected Writings

• Beverly Waugh's Journal. Mss. from 1807. Continued with gaps for many years.
• A Series of Questions for Bible Classes, with J. Emory, 1828.
• Wesley's Works, Editor (with John Emory), 1831.
• Nature and Objects of the Methodist Book Concern, a statement in Emory's Life and Works, R. Emory, 1841.
• Funeral discourse on Bishop Roberts, in Sermons on Miscellaneous Subjects, Cincinnati, 1847.

Biographies

• Discourse on, delivered by Bishop T.A. Morris, General Conference, published by its order, 1860.
• Sketch: Western Cavaliers, A.H. Redford, 1876.
• Sketch: Lives of Methodist Bishops, H.B. Ridgaway, Flood and Hamilton, 1882.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1891). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
• Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops. Nashville, The Parthenon Press, 1948.

See also

• List of Bishops of the United Methodist Church

External link

• Virtual American Biographies from the Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889)