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Joseph Cross
1813–1893
A Methodist preacher, lecturer, and travel writer, he published sermons, memoir, and books shaped by decades of ministry in both the North and South. His work ranges from Civil War reflections to lively travel writing on Europe and Italy.
1 Audiobook
Old Wine and New: Occasional Discourses
by Joseph Cross
About the author
Born in England in 1813 and later active in the United States, Joseph Cross built a long career as a Methodist minister and author. Records for his books and memorial listings consistently identify him as living from 1813 to 1893, and surviving works show that he wrote across several genres, including sermons, religious essays, memoir, and travel books.
His known books include Camp and Field: Papers from the Portfolio of an Army Chaplain, Days of My Years, Old Wine and New: Occasional Discourses, and travel-focused works such as Edens of Italy and A Year in Europe. A Wikipedia entry about his wife, Jane T. H. Cross, also describes him as a prominent Methodist minister and notes that he served as a professor of belles-lettres at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.
Taken together, those sources suggest a writer whose life joined public speaking, religious work, and wide-ranging observation. His surviving bibliography gives a good sense of the world he moved through: the pulpit, the classroom, the American Civil War era, and the culture of 19th-century travel.