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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

JABEZ P. CAMPBELL,

England States. He subsequently filled Albany and New York city stations, after which he was transferred to the Philadelphia Conference. In 1856 he was elected editor of the Christian Recorder, which position he resigned, and afterwards filed the Trenton, New Jersey, station and Bethel Church, Philadelphia Conference. In 1863 he was transferred to the Baltimore Conference, and in May, 1864, he was elected Bishop. He was the first bishop that visited California and organized that conference. In 1876 the general conference sent him a delegate to the Wesleyan General Conference, in England.

JAMES A. SHORTER,

NINTH BISHOP OF THE A. M. E. CHURCH,

Was born in Washington, D. C., February 4, 1817. He joined the M. E. Church in 1839, at Galena, Illinois. In the same year he united with the Bethel A. M. E. Church, Philadelphia, Pa., under Bishop Morris Brown, and entered the itinerant service in the Baltimore Conference in 1846. He served various churches and proved himself a preacher and pastor in the full acceptation of that term, and was elected Bishop at the general conference, at Washington, D. C., in 1868.

THOMAS D. WARD,

TENTH BISHOP OF THE A. M. E. CHURCH,

Was born in Pennsylvania in 1823. His father and mother crossed over the Maryland line only a few months previous to his birth and therefore he claims to be a Pennsylvanian. At an early age he was converted and admitted into the A. M. E. Church and soon after moved to Philadelphia, where he was licensed to preach. Subsequently he was admitted to the New England Conference. After being ordained Elder he was appointed Missionary to the Pacific Coast, where he remained for several years and organized churches along the coast. In 1868 he was elected Bishop and returned to the Pacific coast and remained there four years. The degree of D. D. was conferred

Rt. Rev. James A. Shorter,

Ninth Bishop A. M. E. Church.

Rt. Rev. John M. Brown,

Eleventh Bishop A. M. E. Church.

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