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John Wesley (/ ˈ w ɛ s l i / WESS-lee; [1] 28 June [O.S. 17 June] 1703 – 2 March 1791) was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a principal leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to ...
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Hardin was born in 1853 near Bonham, Texas, to James Gibson "Gip" Hardin, a Methodist preacher and circuit rider, and Mary Elizabeth Dixson. [2] [5]: 100–108 He was named after John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist denomination of the Christian church.
Susanna Wesley (née Annesley; 20 January 1669 – 23 July 1742) was the daughter of Samuel Annesley and Mary White, and the mother of John and Charles “…although she never preached a sermon or published a book or founded a church, (she) is known as the Mother of Methodism .
John Mercer Wesley was born in Los Angeles, California in 1928, to Elsa Marie Patzwaldt and Ner Wesley. [1] In 1934, he discovered his father at home, dead of a stroke—an event that had a profoundly traumatic, long-term impact on him. [1] [22] Afterwards, he lived in an orphanage for a year, until his mother remarried and assumed custody. [23]
John Wesley Hardin was one of the most violent figures of a violent age. Born in Bonham to a Methodist preacher in 1853, he quickly moved to a life of crime. By the time he was 18, he killed ...
John Amos’s cause of death has been confirmed, just over a month after he died on August 21 aged 84. The Good Times actor died from congestive heart failure at a Los Angeles hospital, according ...
Description: Statue of John Wesley at Reynolds Square in Savannah, Georgia. Caption reads: "John Wesley 1703 – 1791 Founder of Methodism Minister of the Church of England in Savanah 1736 –1737"