People Associated with the Church of the Nazarene - Church of the Nazarene Hymnwriters, Church of the Nazarene Ministers (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 205. Not illustrated. Chapters: Church of the Nazarene Hymnwriters, Church of the Nazarene Ministers, Church of the Nazarene Missionaries, Nazarene Theologians, William Howard Hoople, Joseph Widney, Haldor Lillenas, Olive Winchester, Fred A. Hillery, Mildred Bangs Wynkoop, Phineas F. Bresee, Thomas Jay Oord, Timothy L. Smith, J. B. Chapman, Fred J. Shields, R. Wayne Gardner, Bryan Stone, Floyd W. Nease, H. Orton Wiley, Ralph Earle, Jr., Samuel Young, William M. Greathouse, Talmadge Johnson, Jordan Escusa, Jerry D. Porter, Cecil R. Paul, Gideon B. Williamson, Hiram F. Reynolds, Evelyn Witthoff, J. Kenneth Grider, Hugh C. Benner, Dan Boone, Richard S. Taylor, Harmon Schmelzenbach, Charles H. Strickland, Benjamin Franklin Haynes, Donald Owens, William Bantom, Michael Lodahl, H. Ray Dunning, W. T. Purkiser, Jim Bond. Excerpt: William Howard Hoople (6 August 1868 29 September 1922) was a prominent leader of the American Holiness movement; the co-founder of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America, one of the antecedent groups that merged to create the Church of the Nazarene; rescue mission organiser; an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene, and first superintendent of the New York District of the Church of the Nazarene; YMCA worker; baritone gospel singer; successful businessman and investor; and inventor. William Howard Hoople was born in Herkimer, New York, on 6 August 1868, the oldest child and only son of Canadian immigrants William Gordon Hoople (born 3 April 1841 in Dickinson's Landing, Eastern District, Upper Canada; died 28 December 1908 of "acute indigestion" in New York), an Episcopalian clerk employed by his uncle, and Agnes T. Blackburn (born March 1844 in Osnabruck Township, Eastern District, Upper Canada; died 1915), an Episcopalian school teacher. William and Agnes, were childhood sweethearts who gr...