The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-30
THE NEW BISHOPS.
Sketches of Those Elected by the
MeahOdist General Conference.

Rev. A. W. Wilson, D. D., heads the list of
clerical delegates from the Baltimore Conference.
He is the son of the late Norval Wilson, whose
name is historic in the annals of MethOdism.
Early in life DIR. Wilson became a member of
the Methodist Church graduated in Columbia
College, Washington, d. c., and read medicine,
with the purpose of practicng the same. Called
to preach the Gospel, he abandoned medicine,
and joined the Conference of which he ls now
an honored member. His early Circuits were
hard fields, and helped 10 develop in him those
characteristics which have since made him use
full worker in the church. AT one period in his
career circumstances obliged temporary with
drawal from his chosen work. He read law, and
practiced successfully in Baltimore city, mean
while preaching frequently. Through the per-
suasion of friends who desired his valuable SER
vices in the ministry, he re-entered the active
work, in which he has continued until the pres
ent. DR.. Wilson has filled all positions in the
regular work, in Circuits. Stations and as Presid
ing Elder He was elected delegate to the Gen
eral Conference of 1870, and has been a member
of each succeeding session. AS a wise counselor,
he stands pre-eminent, and as parliamentarian
has few If any superiors. Though somewhat re-
tirring in manner, he possesses a warm heart,
and is in full sympathy with his brethren. He
was member of the Ecumenical Conference,
held in London last year, and took high position
there as an able representative of our church.
He has just finished his fourth year as Missionary
Secretary, and by his energy and thorough work
done much to advance the missionary cause.
He is too well known as an able preacher for us
TO speak of him here. He has fine personal ap-
pearance, and at once impresses you as a man of
eminent ability.
Atticus G. Haygood, who has since declined,
was born in Clark county, Ga, but owing to his
fathers removal, when he was a boy, to Atlanta,
Ca, was brought up in that city. He is forty
three years old, in the very prime of life, but of
mature mind, which has been made both strong
Il -. III
which the church has imposed upon him since
the beginning of his ministry. He graduated at
Emory College, at nineteen years of age and
soon after his graduation was admitted on trial
into the Georgia Conference. At the division of
the Conference, his lot fell on the side of the
North Georgia Conference, of which he was an
honored member and delegate to the present
General Conference He was elected Sunday
school Secretary by the General Conference held
iu Memphis in 1870, and inaugurated that valu-
able department OF our work. The Degree of d.
ID. was conferred upon him in 1870 by his alma
mater, of which he is now the honOred President.
His success in building up that College is mar
vel of wisdom and work. For four years, while
presiding over the College, he has edited the
WesLeu0a ChristiGn AdcOc1te in a way to make
the paper felt throughout the country. His Ca
pacity for work seems TO have no limit, and his
elevation to the Office of Bishop is prophecy of
an advance movement on all the lines of move
ment IN the Southern Church.
Rev. John c. Cranberry. D. D., Bishop elect
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was
born In the city of Norfolk, Va, December 1929.
In 1874 he was sent 10 Randolph Macon College,
then under the Presidency of Dr. w. A. Smith,
where he spent three years, taking his diploma
at the head of his class, 10 June, 1847 The sue
ceeding Conference, in November, he Joined the
Virginia Conference, and was sent to the Prince
Edward Circuit. Afterwards he filed other ap-
pointments, becoming Chaplain of Randolph Ma
con College, Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, al Washington City, and Chap
lain at the University Of Virginia. While at the
latter place the war broke out. and he was ap-
pointed Chaplain In the Confederate army. In
one of The seven-day battles around Richmond
he was wounded In the forehead and lost an eye
He was also taken prisoner and carried TO Fort
Warren, from which he was released a. soon as
1t was established that he was Chaplain, and he
returned to service again. After . service of
four years, he returned to the past0rate, begin
hing al Lynchburg. then Petersburg four years
Centenary Church four years, then Broad Bireet
Church, Richmond, where he was Pastor when
called TO take the position he now holds ct the
Vanderbilt University
Robert Kennon Hargrove was born In Pickens
county, Ala, September II, 1889. Educated In