Background
Hughes, Matthew Simpson was born on February 2, 1863 in Doddridge Company, Virginia (now West Virginia). Son of Thomas Bayles (Doctor of Divinity) and Louisa (Holt) H.
Hughes, Matthew Simpson was born on February 2, 1863 in Doddridge Company, Virginia (now West Virginia). Son of Thomas Bayles (Doctor of Divinity) and Louisa (Holt) H.
University of West Virginia (non-graduate). (Doctor of Divinity, 1896, Doctor of Laws, 1909, Hamline).
Ordained Mechanical Engineering ministry, 1887. Pastor Chestnut Saint Church, Portland, Maine, 1890-1895, Wesley Church, Minneapolis, 1895-1898, Independence Avenue Church, Kansas City, Missoury, 1898-1908, 1st Church, Pasadena, California, 1908-1916. Professor practical theology, Maclay College of Theology, University of Southern California, 1908-1911.
Elected bishop Methodist Episcopal Church, 1916.
Chaplain 1st Minnesota Regiment, 1898.
Mason, Author: The Logic of Prohibition, 1915.
Married Harriet Frances Wheeler, October 24, 1888.