Education
Baldwin Wallace University. Drew University.
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Baldwin Wallace University. Drew University.
Born on February 18, 1871 in Huntington, Staffordshire, England, James Simester was converted at age fourteen and called to preach when sixteen. He received Bachelor of Arts from Baldwin University in 1893, and Master of Arts in 1901, Doctor of Divinity in 1904, and Bachelor of Divinity from Drew Theological Seminary in 1896. He entered the Newark Conference in 1896, and had several appointments (1890 in Strongsville, Ohio, 1891 and 1892 in Litchfield, Ohio and Whippany, New Jersey) before transferring to the Foochow Conference in China in 1896.
From 1896 to 1899 James Simester taught in the Anglo-Chinese College, Foochow (福州英华书院) and from 1899 to 1901 was the acting president and from 1901 to 1904 the president
He was president of South.L. Baldwin School of Theology from 1904 to 1905. He also worked as the editor of the Educational Department of the Methodist Forum from 1902 to 1903, and the editor of Sunday-school Literature, Foochow Conference, from 1899 to 1903.
James Simester died of Dengue fever on October 19, 1905 in Foochow.