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Joseph Cross
1813–1893
An English-born Methodist minister, teacher, and travel writer, he turned a life of preaching and public service into books about Europe, religion, and the Civil War. His work ranges from reflective sermons to firsthand wartime writing, giving modern readers a vivid window into 19th-century American religious life.
1 Audiobook
Old Wine and New: Occasional Discourses
by Joseph Cross
About the author
Born in 1813 and later active in the United States, Joseph Cross was a Methodist minister and author whose long career blended preaching, teaching, and writing. Sources connected with his books and biographical records place him as an English-born clergyman who became well known in Methodist circles and also served as a professor of English literature at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.
His published work shows an unusually wide range. He wrote travel books such as A Year in Europe, religious and devotional works including sermons and discourses, and Camp and Field, drawn from his experience as an army chaplain during the Civil War. That mix of subjects makes his writing interesting not only to religious readers, but also to anyone curious about 19th-century travel, public speaking, and wartime memory.
Cross died in 1893. I could not confirm a reliable portrait from the pages I checked, so no image is included here.