title: William Perry Eveland
text: William Perry Eveland (12 February 1864 – 24 July 1916) was a missionary bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1912 and serving in the U.S. and in Southeast Asia.
  
  He was born 12 February 1864 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.  He began a preaching ministry in 1888, joining the traveling ministry of the Central Pennsylvania Annual Conference of the M.E. Church in 1891.  He graduated from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1892.
  
  Prior to his election to the episcopacy, he served as a pastor and an educator.  He served as the president of Methodist-related Williamsport Dickinson Seminary (now, Lycoming College) from 1905 to 1912.  He was appointed as missionary bishop over Southeastern Asia.  However, his service as a bishop was short: he died on 24 July 1916 following an electrical accident at Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania, where he is also buried.
  
  Selected writings
  Inaugural Address, Williamsport Dickinson, pamphlet, 16 pp., 1908.
  
  References
  Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops.  Nashville, The Methodist Publishing House, 1948.
  
  See also
  List of bishops of the United Methodist Church
  
  1864 births
  1916 deaths
  People from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  American Methodist bishops
  Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church
  Methodist missionaries in Asia
  American Methodist missionaries
  People from Williamsport, Pennsylvania
  American speechwriters
  Methodist missionary bishops
  Dickinson College alumni
  Lycoming College faculty
  Accidental deaths in Pennsylvania
  Accidental deaths by electrocution