Asbury, Daniel

Asbury, Daniel a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Fairfax county, Va., Feb. 18, 1762. He served in the war of the Revolution, and soon after its close was converted. In 1786 he entered the itinerant ministry, and continued in it, with an interval of nine, years, up to 1824, and during this long service his fidelity and diligence were signally manifest. He died suddenly in 1827.-Minutes of Conferences, i, 506; Sprague, Annals, 7:127.