TY  - GEN
AU  - Simpson,Matthew
TI  - Matthew Simpson papers,
KW  - Ames, Edward Raymond,
KW  - Blair, Montgomery,
KW  - Harlan, James,
KW  - Janes, Edmund S.
KW  - Morris, Thomas A.
KW  - Simpson family.
KW  - Simpson family
KW  - Indiana Asbury University (Greencastle, Ind.)
KW  - Methodist Episcopal Church
KW  - Bishops
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Periodicals
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Western Christian advocate
KW  - Circuit riders
KW  - Religion and science
KW  - Slavery
KW  - United States
KW  - Slavery and the church
KW  - Universities and colleges
KW  - Indiana
KW  - Greencastle
KW  - Cincinnati (Ohio)
KW  - Europe
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Ohio
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Clergy
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Editors
KW  - Educators
KW  - Orators
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Family and general correspondence, diaries, journals, speeches, sermons, writings, notebooks, notes, printed matter, scrapbooks, and other papers relating to Simpson's presidency of Indiana Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind.; service as a Methodist Episcopal bishop; years as a circuit preacher; editorship of the Western Christian Advocate in Cincinnati, Ohio; travels in Europe; early life in Ohio and Pennsylvania; and family matters.  Subjects include division in the church over the slavery question, reorganization of the Methodist Church in the South after the Civil War, Methodist Church expansion during the 19th century, and the church and science.  Correspondents include Edward Raymond Ames, Montgomery Blair, James Harlan, Edmund S. Janes, and Thomas A. Morris
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012165
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012165.3
ER  -