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WEAVER, Jonathan, bishop of the United Brethren in Christ, born in Carroll county, Ohio, 23 February, 1824. He was brought up on a farm, educated at the common schools and at Hagerstown academy, and in 1845 began to preach. He was a pastor in 1847-'52, presiding elder in 1852-'7, and general agent for Otterbein university in 1857-'65. He was elected in 1865 a bishop of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, has been re-elected five times, and was in the Ohio diocese in 1887. He received the degree of D. D. from Otterbein university in 1873. He has published "Discourses on the Resurrection " (Dayton. Ohio, 1871); "Ministerial Salary" (1872)" "Divine Providence" (1873); and "Universal Restoration not sustained by the Word of God" (1878). He has written much for his church organ, the "Religious Telescope," published at Dayton, and is now preparing for the press a volume of sermons by different ministers of his denomination.
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