"West, Francis, an English Wesleyan minister, began his work in 1793, labored twenty -seven years, and died July 3, 1820. The Minutes characterize him
as " a plain, usefid man." See Minutes of the Confer- ence, 1820.
West, Francis L., a Methodist Episcopal minis- ter, was born at Rush, N. Y., March 7, 1840. He removed with his parents to Michigan when quite young, expe- rienced religion in his youth, was licensed to preach in 1859, and in 1861 joined the Detroit Conference, and in it served the Church until the fall of 1864, when he was drafted into United States service, and sent in the Twenty-third jNIichigan Infantry to Tennessee, where he was shot, while on duty, by guerillas, and died in Hospital No. 1 at Chattanooga the next morning, Jan. 5, 1865. Mr. West's qualities of mind and heart made him a young man of great promise. He was firm in purpose, of intense earnestness, conscientious, affable, de- vout. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1865, p. 168.
West, John (1), a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Charles City County, Va., April 20, 1768. He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1784, was licensed to preach in 1787, entered the travelling con- nection in 1790, and was appointed to (ireene Circuit, in Tennessee. In 1802 he was transferred from the Vir- ginia to the Baltimore Conference, his connection with that body lasting until 1825, when, at its organization, he became a member of the Pittsburgh Conference. For fifty-seven years (forty-four of which he was effective) "Father West" labored in the itinerant ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, ''and in ever\'^ station his onerous and important duties were discharged with a fidelitj' but seldom equalled and perhaps never surpass- ed." He died Juh' 22, 1847. "Modesty, innocence, and punctuality were prominent traits in the character of Father West." His death was as triumphant as his life was serene. See Minutes of A nnual Conferences, iv, 238.
West, John (2), a Welsh Congregational minis- ter, was born in 1808. He studied privately for the ministry, was ordained, and for some years preached in several English counties with acceptance and success. In 1839 he was received by the Colonial Missionary So- ciety, and was sent to Tasmania under its auspices. He not only did good work as a minister, but as a po- litical leader he did much for Tasmania, and his stir- ring appeals were a strong element in the resistance that finally triumphed over the imperial government. In 1854 he became chief editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, and labored in this capacity until his death, Dec. 11, 1873. See (Lond.) Cong. Year-book, 1875, p. 373.
West, Jonathan Renshaw, a Methodist Epis- copal minister, was born in .Jackson County, Ala., Aug. 31, 1806. He experienced religion in 1825, was licensed to exhort in 1827, and to preach in 1832, and in 1846 or 1847 joined the INIissouri and Arkansas Conference. During the war, he was compelled to leave the South for personal safety. In 1864 he went to Kansas, where he preached until his death, .June 15, 1874. See Mi?i- utes of Annual Confei-ences, 1875, p. 23.
"West, Nathaniel, D.D., a Presbyterian divine, was born in Ulster, Ireland, in 1794. He was educated under Drs. Chalmers and Turner; entered the ministry in the Independent Connection in Hull, England, in 1821; came to the United States in 1834, and was pastor of Presby- terian churches successively at Meadville, Pa. ; Monroe, Mich. ; North East, Pittsburgh, MacKeesport, Belmont, Hestonville, and Philadelphia, Pa., besides being en- gaged in various benevolent agencies. He was senior chaplain in the Satterlee United States Military Hos- pital, West Philadelphia, from Mav, 1862, until his death, Sept. 2, 1864. He published," The A rk of God the Safety of the Nation (1850): — Popery the Prop of European Despotisms (1852) : — Babylon the Great (ibid.) : — Right- and Left-hand Blessings of God, or a Cure for Covetonsness (V\\\\a.. 1852, 18mo) : — Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible, Containing the Whole of the New and Old Testaments, Collected and Arranged Systematically
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into Thirty Books ; Based on the Worl: of the Learned Talbot (S. Y. 1853, royal 8vo ; 7th ed. 1855, royal 8vo, 1035 pp.) : — The Orerturning of Ti/rannical Governiiients (preached before and published at the request of Louis Kossutli when in the United States, and by liis order and at his cost translated into ]\Iagyar) : — Lecture on the Causes of the Ruin of Republican Liberty in the Ancient Roman Republic, etc. (Pliila. 18G1, 8vo) : — History of the Satterlee U. S. Army Gen. Hospital (West Phila., Hos- jiital press, 1863, 1'inio, 30 pp.). " Dr. West was a man oi marked peculiarities and abundant labors." See Al- libone. Diet, of Brit, and Amer. Authors, s. v.; Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1865, p, 134. (J. L. S.)
West, Richard, D.D., an English clergyman, was born in 1671. He became a commoner in Merton Col- lege, Oxford, in 1688 ; was afterwards elected fellow of Magdalen College ; became prebendary of Winchester in 1706; archdeacon of Berks in 1710; and died Dec. 2, 1716. He published some essays, sermons, and other works. See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. V.
West, Robert Atho^W, an American writer, was born at Thetford, England, in 1809. He emigrated to the United States in 1843 ; was the official reporter of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1844, and published the debates ; was editor of the Columbia Magazine (N. Y.) from 1846 to 1849 ; co- editor of the A''. Y, Commercial Advertiser in 1845, and editor-in-chief in 1850, He was the author of. Sketches of Wesleyan Preachers (N.Y.I 848). — .4 Fa- ther's Letter to his Daughter (1865). He was also one of the compilers of the Hymn-book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and contributed to its pages, besides writing poetry and prose for periodicals.