Americans Associated with the Church of the Nazarene: Debbie Reynolds, William Howard Hoople, Lyman C. Pettit, Edwin Edwards, Thomas Kinkade

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Debbie Reynolds, William Howard Hoople, Lyman C. Pettit, Edwin Edwards, Thomas Kinkade, Phill Kline, Paula Jones, Howard Hendrick, Kenny Marchant, Edward S. Mann, Jim Bunn, H. Orton Wiley, Stephen W. Nease, Riley Ingram, Kenneth H. Pearsall, Evelyn Witthoff, J. Kenneth Grider, A. Gordon Wetmore, H. Ray Dunning. Excerpt: William Howard Hoople (6 August 1868 - 29 September 1922) was a prominent leader of the American Holiness movement; the co-founder of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America, one of the antecedent groups that merged to create the Church of the Nazarene; rescue mission organiser; an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene, and first superintendent of the New York District of the Church of the Nazarene; YMCA worker; baritone gospel singer; successful businessman and investor; and inventor. Hoople was born in Herkimer, New York, on 6 August 1868, the oldest child and only son of Canadian immigrants William Gordon Hoople (born 3 April 1841 in Dickinson's Landing, Eastern District, Upper Canada; died 28 December 1908 of acute indigestion in New York), an Episcopalian clerk employed by his uncle, and Agnes T. Blackburn (born March 1844 in Osnabruck Township, Eastern District, Upper Canada; died 1915), an Episcopalian school teacher. William and Agnes, were childhood sweethearts who grew up in Osnabruck in Stormont County, Ontario, near the Long Sault just across the Saint Lawrence River from Upstate New York, an area had been settled originally by the 1st Battalion of Sir John Johnson's King's Royal Regiment of New York (also known informally as the Royal New Yorkers and the Royal Greens) after the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War in 1783. WG Hoople had been born on a farm on the banks of Hoople's Creek granted about 1797 to his grandfather Henry Hoople (born 1760 in Cherry...