Background
Hartzell, Joseph Crane was born on June 1, 1842 in Moline, Illinois, United States. Son of Michael Bash and Nancy (Worman) Hartzell.
Hartzell, Joseph Crane was born on June 1, 1842 in Moline, Illinois, United States. Son of Michael Bash and Nancy (Worman) Hartzell.
Studied at High School, Moline, Illinois. Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Doctor of Divinity. Bachelor of Divinity, Garrett Biblical Institute, Chicago, Illinois.
Doctor of Laws United States Grant University, Tennessee. And Hedding College, Illinois.
Ordained Mechanical Engineering ministry, 1866. Pastor, Pekin, Illinois, 1869-1870, St. Charles Church, New Orleans, 1870-1873. Superintendent, educational and editorial work, New Orleans, 1873-1882.
Assistant secretary, 1882-1887, secretary, 1887-1896, Freedmen’s Aid and Ednl. Society, Methodist Episcopal Church. Missionary bishop of Africa, 1896-1916.
Retired on account age limit. Founded, 1875, Southwestern Christian Advocate. Member school board, New Orleans, several years Delaware General Quadrennial Confs., 1876-1896.
Special envoy to the United States and England in behalf of Republic of Liberia and succeeding in averting a crisis between that country and Germany.
( This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923....)
( This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923....)
Mason. Knight Commander Order of Redemption of Africa (Liberia).
Only such as are incident to an intensely active and very responsible administration, while secretary over forty - five institutions of learning of higher grade, and superintending work of missions in Eastern Rhodesia and Portuguese East Africa, on East Coast and in Liberia, on the Congo and in Angola, in the West Coast and in Madeira Islands. Has averaged over 30,000 miles travel annually since 1870.
Married Jennie Culver, November 14, 1869.