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Askew, Josiah F.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Burke County, N. C., in 1814. He experienced religion at the age of fourteen; received license to preach while a student at Randolph Macon College, Va., in 1837; and in 1840 entered the Virginia Conference. During the few years that his health permitted, his services were highly acceptable and exemplary. A pulmonary difficulty obliged him to locate, and he retired to Georgia. He died Nov. 7,1848. Mr. Askew was characterized by whole- heartedness, piety, zeal. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M. E. Church, South, 1849, p. 202.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Askew, Josiah F.'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​a/askew-josiah-f.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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