Charles Wesley Brashares

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Charles Wesley Brashares (1891–1982[1])was an American Bishop in The Methodist Church, elected in 1944.

Born in Williamsport, Ohio on 31 March 1891, he graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1914, and from the Boston University School of Theology in 1917. He married Julia Estelle Merrill on 20 December 1916. He was ordained Elder and became a Member in Full Connection of the Maine Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1917.

Prior to his election to the Episcopacy, Brashares served in the pastorate successively in Gorham, Maine; Newton, Massachusetts; Grace Methodist Church in Dayton, Ohio; and First Methodist in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Upon entering the Episcopacy, he became Resident Bishop of the Des Moines Episcopal Area, then in 1952 the Chicago Area.

Boston University, Cornell, Iowa Wesleyan College, Ohio Wesleyan and Simpson College all conferred honorary degrees upon him.

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  • Methodism: Ohio Area (1812-1962), edited by John M. Versteeg, Litt.D., D.D. (Ohio Area Sesquicentennial Committee, 1962).

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