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The Africa Mission Of The Methodist Episcopal Church
Joseph Crane Hartzell, Joseph Crane Hartzell (bp.)
Board of foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1909
Religion; Christian Ministry; Missions; Missions; Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions
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The Africa Mission Of The Methodist Episcopal Church
Joseph Crane Hartzell, Joseph Crane Hartzell (bp.)
Board of foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1909
Religion; Christian Ministry; Missions; Missions; Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions
Joseph Crane Hartzell was an American clergyman. He was a missionary bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in both the United States and Africa.
Background
Joseph Hartzell was born on June 1, 1842, in Moline, Illinois, United States, the fourth of the thirteen children of Michael Bash and Nancy Worman (Stauffer) Hartzell, both natives of Pennsylvania. He was descended from German ancestors who emigrated to Pennsylvania in the early part of the eighteenth century. Michael Hartzell was a farmer and cabinet maker, of rugged character. Both he and his wife were ardent Methodists, and their log cabin served as a preaching place for circuit riders.
Education
Under the religious influences by which he was surrounded, Joseph early resolved to enter the ministry, and though he had thought that he could prepare himself in two years he gave seven years to his training, working his way through Illinois Wesleyan University and Garrett Biblical Institute.
Career
Admitted to the Methodist ministry in 1868, Hartzell was stationed at Pekin. During the Civil War he had sought to enlist, and, rejected, had felt impelled to stay in school and prepare for the battle of ideals which must follow the clash of arms. Interested in the problem of race-adjustment in the South, in 1870 he succeeded John Philip Newman as pastor of the Ames Church, New Orleans, where he began a Period of notable service in the face of many difficulties. In 1873 he was made Presiding elder of the New Orleans district. In 1881 he was transferred to La Teche district. From 1883 to 1896 he was with the Freedmen’s Aid and Southern Education Society at Cincinnati; as assistant corresponding secretary, 1883-1888, and as corresponding secretary, 1889-1896. In New Orleans he founded schools and a hospital for negroes, and in 1873 he founded the Southwestern Christian Advocate, an organ published weekly for the promotion of Methodist work among the negroes. From 1876 to 1896 he was delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, where he was influential ln securing consideration for the Southern work, which developed into an extensive system of schools and churches for both races.
In 1896 Harzell was consecrated missionary bishop for Africa and gave himself to this continental field with amazing energy and substantial success. Fixing his official residence at Funchal, Madeira, in twenty years Hartzell made thirteen tours of Africa, traveling 1, 300, 000 miles by ship, train, cart, oxback, donkey-back, and hammock. In 1898 he acted as special representative for Liberia to ask Great Britain and the United States to establish a joint protectorate over Liberia. Cecil Rhodes granted 13, 000 acres equipped with buildings for his Rhodesia agricultural mission, supplemented by an annual grant for the maintenance of a school for children of white residents. Premier Clemenceau personally approved his project for a mission under the French flag in North Africa (1907), and the King of Portugal received him and granted liberties to Protestant missions in Angola and Inhambane. Meanwhile the bishop’s personality kept the African field constantly before the church at home, which in 1909 responded to his leadership by pledging $330, 000 in an Africa Diamond Jubilee Campaign. In 1916 he retired but continued to speak and work for Africa. On his eighty-sixth birthday he was assaulted by robbers in his home at Blue Ash, Ohio, and died some three months later from the effects of his injuries.
Achievements
Joseph Hartzell's career was marked by his ardent support of African issues and his efforts for African American betterment. He also established the first Methodist Episcopal Church erected for the use of white people in Africa. In recognition of this service he was made a Knight Commander of the Order for the Redemption of Africa.
Hartzell loyally supported the federal government but did not condone the false representation of the Carpet-baggers and among those who differed with him on social and political matters he made many warm friends. For his tact then and later he earned for himself the title of "diplomat of the Church. ”
Connections
Hartzell married, on November 14, 1869, Jennie Culver, who died in 1916.
