author
W. M. (William Marion) Weekley
1851–1926
A Methodist-trained church leader and writer, he turned years of horseback ministry and denominational service into vivid books about faith, preaching, and mission work in the American Midwest and Appalachia.
1 Audiobook
Twenty Years on Horseback; or, Itinerating in West Virginia
by W. M. (William Marion) Weekley
About the author
William Marion Weekley was an American religious writer and bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. Records for his books and library listings identify him as W. M. Weekley (1851–1926), and several editions and audiobook notes describe him as a graduate of Asbury Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky.
His best-known works include Twenty Years on Horseback; or, Itinerating in West Virginia, From Life to Life; or, How Our Preachers Die, and Our Heroes; or, United Brethren Home Missionaries. Those titles suggest the kind of writer he was: practical, pastoral, and deeply interested in the everyday lives of ministers, missionaries, and believers on the frontier and in small communities.
Weekley wrote from direct experience, and his books preserve a picture of Protestant church life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Readers drawn to memoir, regional history, or religious biography may find his work especially interesting for its firsthand stories of travel, ministry, and devotion.