History of Pennington, (Mercer County) New Jersey United States of America

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James Monroe Buckley, editor, was born at Rahway, N. J., Dec. 16, 1836. He studied at Pennington, N. J., and at Wesleyan university, leaving in his freshman year on account of ill-health. On partial recovery he studied divinity under Dr. Nathaniel Laselle, at Exeter, N. H. He entered the New Hampshire conference of the Methodist Episcopal church on trial, 1859, and was stationed at Dover, Manchester and Concord. In 1863 he travelled in Europe and in November of that year was transferred to Detroit conference, and preached in Detroit, Mich., from 1864 to 1866; in Brooklyn, N. Y., and Stamford, Conn. 1866 to 1880. He studied medicine 1866-69, and served on the medical committees of the State lunatic hospitals of New Jersey for many years, and as president of the Methodist Episcopal (Seney) hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., from its foundation. He was a member of the general conference in 1872, 1876 and 1880, and a delegate to the ecumenical Methodist conference in London, 1881. In 1880 he became editor of the New York Christian Advocate, and was a member of every general conference and of the ecumenical conference in 1891. He published: Appeals to Men of Sense and Reflection, New York (1869); Two Weeks in the Yosemite Valley, New York (1873); Supposed Miracles, Boston (1875); Christians and the Theatre, (1875); Oats or Wild Oats, New York (1885); The Land of the Czar and the Nihilist, Boston (1886); Christian Science, Faith-Healing and Kindred Phenomena, and Travels in Three Continents. The degree of A.M. was conferred on him by Wesleyan university in 1869, and that of D.D. in 1872; Emory and Henry college, Va., gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1882.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Pennington, (Mercer County) New Jersey

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