Background
Neely, Thomas Benjamin was born on June 12, 1841 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Thomas and Frances (Armstrong) Neely.
Neely, Thomas Benjamin was born on June 12, 1841 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Thomas and Frances (Armstrong) Neely.
Educated mainly in Philadelphia. Honorary Master of Arts, Dickinson, 1875. South.T.D., Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa, 1884.
Doctor of Philosophy, Chattanooga University, 1886.
Doctor of Laws, Mount Union College, 1890.
Entered ministry Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia Annual Conference, 1865. Pastor in Philadelphia and vicinity 29 years, presiding elder 6 years. Elected to 6 consecutive Quad.
General Conferences
Methodist Episcopal Church, and always leader of the delegation. Editor church South.S. and tract literature, books, et cetera, and correspondent secretary South.S. Union and Tract Society of Mechanical Engineers Church, 1900-1904. Elected bishop, 1904.
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, and in charge of work of Methodist Episcopal Church in South America, 1904-1908.
Opened new missions in Panama and Bolivia, with service also in the United States. Returned to the United States, 1908, then with episcopal duty in the United States, also in Mexico.
Retired, 1912. Author: Sunday School books, 1900-1904.
Juan Wesley, El Gran Reformador Religioso, 1905. South America, a Mission Field, 1906.
Louisiana Predicasion Tradato Practico de Homiletica, 1907. South America, Its Missionary Problems, 1909.
The Bishop and the Supervisional System of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1912.
The Minister in the Itinerant System, 1914. Neely’s Parliamentary Practice, 1914. American Methodism, Its Divisions and Unification, 1915.
Doctrinal Standards of Methodism, including the Methodist Episcopal Churches, 1918.
The League the Nation’s Danger, 1919. Present Perils of Methodism, 1920.
The Revised Ritual of 1916, 1920. The Only Condition, 1920.
Methodist Episcopal Church and Foreign Missions, 1923.
Also many other religious books Home: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Married Elizabeth Cheney Hickman, March 1882 (died 1912).