The Biographical Dictionary of America/Atkinson, John

ATKINSON, John, clergyman, was born in Deerfield, N.J., Sept. 6, 1835. He became a Methodist Episcopal minister in 1853, and held various pastorates. He received the degree A.M. from Dickinson in 1869, and D.D. from Illinois Wesleyan university in 1877, He is the author of "The Living Way" (1856); "Memorials of Methodism in New Jersey" (1860); also of the well known hymn. "We shall meet beyond the River" (1867); "The Garden of Sorrows" (1868); "The Class Leader" (1874); "Centennial History of American Methodism" (1884); and "The Wesleyan Movement in America" (1896). He died in Haverstraw, N.Y., Dec. 8, 1897.