Moses Ashworth

American Methodist minister (1783–1838)

Biography

Moses Ashworth (1783 – 1838) was an American Methodist minister known for being the first appointed preacher to have lived and died in Indiana. He was first ordained as a preacher in 1805 by bishop Francis Asbury, and was the organizer of the first Methodist circuit in the territory of Indiana. He died in 1838 and was buried near Prairie Chapel.

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