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| Record Creator: | Hurst, John Fletcher |
| Title: | John Fletcher Hurst Collection |
| Date Span: | 1860-1903 |
| Abstract: | John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), American bishop, was born in Salem, Maryland, August 17, 1834. He served as president of Drew Theological Seminary before his election as bishop. |
| Quantity: | 0.45 cu. feet |
| Resource ID: | drew.ms.2392 |
John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), American bishop, was born in Salem, Maryland, August 17, 1834. After graduating from Dickinson College in 1854, he pursued his studies in Germany.
He returned to the United States in 1858, and was admitted on trial at the first session of the Newark Annual Conference. He was ordained deacon in 1860 and elder in 1862, and served Methodist Episcopal Churches in Passaic and Elizabeth in New Jersey.
In 1866, he began a five-year appointment as professor of systematic theology at the Martin Mission Institute in Bremen, Germany. In 1870, Hurst was chosen to teach historic theology at Drew, and only three years later, he was elected president. Hurst served in this office until 1880, when he was elected bishop. He also helped found American University in Washington, DC and served as the first chancellor from 1891 until his death.
In 1902 he published a six-volume work entitled the History of Methodism. The work finished publication in 1904. Hurst in Bethesda, Maryland, and was buried at Rock Creek, Washington, D.C.
Catherine Elizabeth La Monte Hurst (d. 1890) was the wife of John and mother of Carl Bailey Hurst. Catherine and John were married April 28, 1859. On September 5, 1892, Hurst married Ella Agnes Root.
The John Fletcher Hurst Papers includes two leather-bound volumes of letters (1884-1899) from John Fletcher Hurst to Carl Bailey Hurst, his son. The later letters in this folder relate to American University in Washington, D.C. when Hurst was Chancellor. There are also one hundred letters (1860-1896) mainly to George Crooks, his colleague. There is an address Hurst gave to the returning Union troops when he was a pastor in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The women of the community had made a regimental flag for the troops, and this address marked the return of the flag to the women. There is also a file of letters (1884-1899) which relate to Christian missions in the northwestern United States and Alaska. Hurst's report of the Drew Theological Seminary to the General Conference in 1880 is also in the collection. Hurst was then President of the Seminary. Finally there is a file containing clippings and publications, and another containing Hurst images and a Certificate of Ordination signed by Hurst when he was bishop.
At the end of the collection there are letters written by Catherine Hurst to Carl Bailey Hurst, her son. The handwritten correspondence is bound together into a book.
Materials have been arranged in the following manner.
The collection is arrangement is by record type with a chronological arrangement within each folder.
When citing material from this collection please use the following format: Direct reference to the item or its file folder, John Fletcher Hurst Collection, Methodist Collection - Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. Do not make use of the item's call number as that is not a stable descriptor.
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| Call Number | Folder Title | Date(s) |
| 2127-7-1: 1 | Correspondence: Carl Bailey Hurst | 1884-1892 |
| 2127-7-1: 2 | Correspondence: Carl Bailey Hurst | 1892-1899 |
| 2127-7-1: 3 | Correspondence: American University, George Crooks | 1860-1896 |
| 2127-7-1: 4 | Correspondence: Northwest Mission Activity | 1884-1899 |
| 2127-7-1: 5 | Civil War Address: To Troops from Elizabeth, New Jersey | Undated |
| 2127-7-1: 6 | Drew Theological Seminary Report to General Conference | 1880 |
| 2127-7-1: 7 | Clippings and Publications | 1874-1903 |
| 2127-7-1: 8 | Images and Ordination Certificate | 1882-1888 |
| 2127-7-1: 9 | Correspondence: Catherine Elisabeth Hurst | 1869-1890 |
