Bradley, a Methodist, attended a summer camp meeting in Ocean Grove and decided in 1871 to buy 500 acres of oceanfront land ...

Asbury Hall was built in 1962 and is named for Bishop Francis Asbury, the father of the United Methodist Church in America. Asbury served the Susquehanna region in 1812, the year Lycoming College was ...

DePauw University was founded in 1837 by the Methodist Church. Originally called Indiana Asbury University in honor of Francis Asbury, the first American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the ...