James Monroe Buckley
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James Monroe Buckley (1836-1920) was a Methodist doctor and editor of the Christian Advocate.
Biography
James Monroe Buckley was born in Rahway, New Jersey on December 16, 1836 to John Buckley and his wife Abby, but his father died soon after he was born.[1][2] He became a Methodist minister in 1858, and graduated from Wesleyan University, and from Emory and Henry College in Virginia.[1][3]
Buckley became editor of the Christian Advocate, then known as the New York Christian Advocate, in 1880 and served for 30 years.[4][5] He also wrote a number of books.[1] He was known as a formidable debater and writer and passionately argued for causes he believed in.[6][4]
Buckley advocated for what would eventually become the NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in 1881 through his editorial work on the accidental death of an organist; and he served on its board for 35 years.[4] Banker George I. Seney read his writing and was inspired to contribute land and assets worth over $410,000, and made building the hospital possible, which became the first Methodist hospital in the world.[7]
Buckley also was a vocal opponent of women's rights, which included writing a book titled The Wrong and Peril of Woman Suffrage. He was known as "Captain of Conservatives" in the Methodist General Conference; and in 1888 he was part of the Committee on the Eligibility of Women, deciding whether or not women could be seated at the Conference, where he steered the committee to reject female delegates.[4]
Buckley died in Morristown, New Jersey on February 10, 1920, at 83 years old.[5] He was buried in Pine Hill Cemetery in Dover.[8]
Selected works
- Two weeks in the Yosemite Valley (1872)
- Christians and the theater (1875)
- Oats or Wild Oats (1885)
- The Land of the Czar and the Nihilist (1886)
- Faith-healing, Christian science and kindred phenomena (1892)
- Travels in three continents, Europe, Africa, Asia (1894)
- A history of Methodists in the United States (1896)
- The fundamentals and their contrasts (1906)
- The Wrong and peril of woman suffrage (1909)
- Theory and practice of foreign missions (1911)
- Constitutional and parliamentary history of the Methodist Episcopal church (1912)
References
- ^ a b c "James Monroe Buckley". Westphalia Press. 22 July 2019.
- ^ George P. Mains (1917). James Monroe Buckley. NY: The Methodist Book Concern. pp. 21-23.
- ^ Marquis Who's Who in America. Chicago, Marquis Who's Who. 1900.
- ^ a b c d "James Monroe Buckley: Newspaper Editor and Leading Opponent of Women’s Rights 1836-1920". New York Annual Conference.
- ^ a b "Methodist Editor dies in Morristown N. J.". Richmond Palladium, Volume 45, Number 77, 10 February 1920.
- ^ Mains (1917), pp. 122-141.
- ^ Edwards, Russell (1973-02-25). "Future Social Events". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-07-18.
- ^ "Rev James Monroe Buckley (1836-1920)". www.findagrave.com.
Further reading
Mains, George Preston (1917). James Monroe Buckley. New York,: Methodist Book Concern. ISBN 0-524-04004-4. OCLC 679389554.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)