Francis Waters

Francis G. Waters, D.D., LL.D., (January 17, 1792 – April 23, 1868) was a methodist minister from Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., and a founding member of the Methodist Protestant Church. He was elected as the first president of the church on November 2, 1830, [cite book|title=The Illustrated History of Methodism|last=Lee|first=James W., Naphtali Luccock, and James Main Dixon| publisher=The Methodist Magazine Publishing Co.|date=1900|location=St. Louis |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=gcURAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA470&dq=%22francis+waters%22#PPR2,M1 | accessdate=2007-11-16| page=470] and presided over the general convention, in which the church's constitution was adopted. [cite book|title=Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature|last=M'Clintock|first=John and James Strong|publisher=Harper & Brothers|location =New York|date=1890| page=186 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ws5hOxs5feIC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22francis+waters%22| accessdate=2007-11-16] From 1849–1853 Waters served as the second principal of Baltimore City College. He also served twice as the president of Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. [cite book|last=Steiner|first=Bernard C.|title=The History of University Education in Maryland|date=1891|publisher=Johns Hopkins Press|location=Baltimore| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ctY1AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA11&dq=%22francis+waters%22&as_brr=3#PPA11,M1 |accessdate=2007-11-16|page=11–12]

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