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data-file-height="36" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>William McKendree</b> (July 6, 1757 – March 5, 1835) was an Evangelist and the fourth Bishop of the <a href="/wiki/Methodist_Episcopal_Church" title="Methodist Episcopal Church">Methodist Episcopal Church</a>, and the first Methodist <a href="/wiki/Bishop" title="Bishop">bishop</a> born in <a href="/wiki/The_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="The United States">the United States</a>. He was elected in 1808. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_years">Early years</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_McKendree&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>William was born in <a href="/wiki/King_William_County,_Virginia" title="King William County, Virginia">King William County, Virginia</a>, the son of John and Mary McKendree. His parents were both of <a href="/wiki/Scottish_people" title="Scottish people">Scottish</a> ancestry. </p><p>As a young man, McKendree served in the <a href="/wiki/Virginia_militia" class="mw-redirect" title="Virginia militia">Virginia militia</a> during the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>. He entered the ranks as a <a href="/wiki/Private_(rank)" title="Private (rank)">private</a>, but eventually served as an <a href="/wiki/Adjutant" title="Adjutant">adjutant</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Commissary" title="Commissary">commissary</a> department. He was present at the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown" title="Siege of Yorktown">siege of Yorktown</a> and the surrender of <a href="/wiki/Lord_Cornwallis" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Cornwallis">Lord Cornwallis</a>. After the war, he returned to private life. </p><p>William was <a href="/wiki/Christian_conversion" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian conversion">converted to Christ</a> in 1787. Shortly thereafter he began conversing with his friends on the subject of the <a href="/wiki/Christian_faith" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian faith">Christian faith</a> and making them the subjects of his fervent <a href="/wiki/Prayers" class="mw-redirect" title="Prayers">prayers</a>. He soon volunteered to take part in public religious meetings, and his addresses produced a powerful effect. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ministry">Ministry</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_McKendree&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Ministry"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1788, while living in <a href="/wiki/Brunswick_County,_Virginia" title="Brunswick County, Virginia">Brunswick County, Virginia</a>, William was received on trial into the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Unusually, he was admitted without first obtaining a <a href="/wiki/License_to_Preach_(Methodist)" title="License to Preach (Methodist)">License to Preach</a> and without anyone's recommendation. Bishop <a href="/wiki/Francis_Asbury" title="Francis Asbury">Francis Asbury</a> appointed him as junior <a href="/wiki/Preacher" title="Preacher">preacher</a> to <a href="/wiki/Mecklenburg_County,_Virginia" title="Mecklenburg County, Virginia">Mecklenburg</a> circuit and he served for several years on neighboring circuits. </p><p>The Rev. McKendree continued as an <a href="/wiki/Itinerant_preacher" title="Itinerant preacher">itinerant preacher</a> until November 1792, when, having been influenced by <a href="/wiki/James_O%27Kelly" title="James O'Kelly">James O'Kelly</a> to join in certain measures of pretended <a href="/wiki/Reform" title="Reform">reform</a>, he was greatly disappointed by their failure at the General Conference. Mr. O'Kelly withdrew from the M.E. Church. Mr. McKendree, sympathizing with him, sent in his resignation as a minister. But the Conference agreed that he might still preach among the Methodist societies. </p><p>Rev. McKendree soon obtained leave to travel with Bishop Asbury, that he might ascertain for himself whether his impressions had been well founded. In a short time he was convinced he had been deceived. He therefore devoted himself to a careful examination of the Rules and Discipline of the Church as drawn up by <a href="/wiki/John_Wesley" title="John Wesley">John Wesley</a>, and as established by the General Conference in the U.S.A. McKendree became fully convinced both of their harmony with the primitive church and of their particular adaptedness to the circumstances and wants of this nation. </p><p>In 1793 the Rev. McKendree was sent to <a href="/wiki/South_Carolina" title="South Carolina">South Carolina</a>, but returned the next year. For the next three years, his circuit was vast—extending from <a href="/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay" title="Chesapeake Bay">Chesapeake Bay</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Blue_Ridge_Mountains" title="Blue Ridge Mountains">Blue Ridge</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alleghany_Mountains" class="mw-redirect" title="Alleghany Mountains">Alleghany Mountains</a>. In 1796 he became Presiding Elder. In 1798, he was appointed to the Baltimore conference, and in 1800 he went with Bishop Asbury and Bishop <a href="/wiki/Richard_Whatcoat" title="Richard Whatcoat">Richard Whatcoat</a> to the Western Conference, which met that year at Bethel, Kentucky. </p><p>Rev. McKendree was appointed the Presiding Elder of the Kentucky-Holston District, 1800-01. In 1801, the conference sent McKendree to oversee the church's efforts in Southeastern <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kentucky" title="Kentucky">Kentucky</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tennessee" title="Tennessee">Tennessee</a>, and western <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> and part of <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>. He subsequently became Presiding Elder on the <a href="/wiki/Cumberland,_Maryland" title="Cumberland, Maryland">Cumberland</a> District. He served as a circuit preacher in addition to his organizational efforts, becoming a respected figure in the region. He was the leader of the <a href="/wiki/Second_Great_Awakening" title="Second Great Awakening">Great Revival</a> in the West. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="As_bishop">As bishop</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_McKendree&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: As bishop"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Rev. William McKendree became widely know and most highly esteemed because of his popular talents in the pulpit and his faithful attention to every part of his work. Consequently, the 1808 General Conference of the M.E. Church, meeting in Baltimore, elected him to the office of Bishop. Indeed, when called to preach before the General Conference, such was the power and <a href="/wiki/Unction" class="mw-redirect" title="Unction">unction</a> connected with his <a href="/wiki/Sermon" title="Sermon">sermon</a>, that Bishop Asbury was quoted as having said at its close, "That sermon will make McKendree bishop." </p><p>From that time, then, Bishop McKendree traveled with Bishop Asbury, or alone, over every part of the Church. His first episcopal tour of 1,500 miles extended through Virginia, Tennessee, <a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a>, and Illinois. After 1816 he was Senior Bishop for nineteen years. In 1830, he lent his support to the Lebanon Seminary, <a href="/wiki/Lebanon,_Illinois" title="Lebanon, Illinois">Lebanon, Illinois</a>. As a result, the school chose to change its name to <a href="/wiki/McKendree_College" class="mw-redirect" title="McKendree College">McKendree College</a> (later University). </p><p>Bishop McKendree never married. His family had moved to <a href="/wiki/Sumner_County,_Tennessee" title="Sumner County, Tennessee">Sumner County, Tennessee</a> about 1810. So when the bishop was not traveling, he also called that area home. He died 5 March 1835 at the home of his brother, Dr. James McKendree, in Sumner County near <a href="/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee" title="Nashville, Tennessee">Nashville</a>. One of his last expressions was said to have been, "All is well." McKendree was initially buried in a family burial ground in Sumner County, but in October 1876 his remains were reinterred to the grounds of the recently founded Vanderbilt University.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_McKendree&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bishop Matthew Simpson wrote of Bishop McKendree: </p> <blockquote><p>He was a man of great energy and genius, and was deeply pious and modest almost to timidity. His mind was clear and logical, his knowledge varied and extensive, his imagination lively but well regulated, and his eloquence was unusually powerful. He was careful in the administration of discipline, and intruduced system into all the operations of the church.</p></blockquote> <p>Bishop McKendree's influence was patent everywhere, but especially was he regarded in the West. He had given years of earnest labor to establishing Methodism on the western frontier. He therefore felt a deep and abiding interest in the success thereof. He thus earned the nickname "Father of Western Methodism", and was considered one of the greatest Bishops of the M.E. Church. </p><p>People named for Bishop McKendree include <a href="/wiki/William_McKendree_Springer" title="William McKendree Springer">William McKendree Springer</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_McKendree_Robbins" class="mw-redirect" title="William McKendree Robbins">William McKendree Robbins</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_McKendree_Gwin" class="mw-redirect" title="William McKendree Gwin">William McKendree Gwin</a> and James McKendree Reiley's son William McKendree Reiley. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_McKendree&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_bishops_of_the_United_Methodist_Church" title="List of bishops of the United Methodist Church">List of bishops of the United Methodist Church</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_McKendree&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sacred_Dust_-_Reinterment_of_Bishops_McKendree_and_Soule_at_Vanderbilt_University.png">"Sacred Dust: Reinterment of Bishops McKendree and Soule at Vanderbilt University". Daily American 4 October 1876</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <ul><li>Leete, Frederick DeLand. <i>Methodist Bishops.</i> Nashville, The Methodist Publishing House, 1948.</li> <li>Paine, Robert. <i>Life and Times of William McKendree: Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.</i> 2 volumes. Nashville, 1874. Accessed via <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=MYWG0-ghJrwC">Google Book Search</a></li> <li>Short, Roy Hunter. <i>Chosen to be Consecrated: The Bishops of The Methodist Church, 1784-1968.</i> Lake Junaluska, N.C., General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church, 1976.</li> <li>Simpson, Matthew, ed. <i>Cyclopaedia of Methodism.</i> Revised edition. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1880. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyctr/books/0301-0400/HDM0307.PDF">[1]</a></li> <li>Sketches of Holston Preachers <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060522165400/http://www.sevierlibrary.org/genealogy/ministers/meth.htm">[2]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=William_McKendree&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=264">Ohio History Central web site</a> (Ohio Historical Society).</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rose.library.emory.edu/">Stuart A. 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