Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-05-20
TIE NEW BISHOPS.
Sketches of Those Elected by the Methods.
General Conference.
Nashville American.


medicine, and Joined
the Conference of which lie is now
an honorable member. His early
circuits were hard fields, and helped
to develop in him those character
istics which have since made him a
useful worker in the chul oh. AT
one period in his career circumstan-
ces obliged temporary withdrawal
from his chosen work. He read
law, and practiced successfully in
Baltimore city, meanwhile preach
ing frequently. Through the per-
suasiOn OF friends who desired his
valuable services in the ministry,
he re-entered the active work, in
which he has continued until the
present. DIR. Wilson has filed all
positions in the regular work, il
circuits, stations, and as Presiding
Elder. He was elected delegate t,p
the General Conference of 1870, and
has been a member OF each succeed
ing session. AS wise counselor he
stands pre-eminent, and as Il parli;i-
mentarian has few il any superiOrs.
Though somewhat retiring in man
ner. he possesses warm heart, and
is in full sympathy with his breth-
rem. He was q member of the Ecu
menical Conference, held in London
last ye,tr, and took high positions
there as an able representative of
our church. He has just finished
his fourth year as Missionary secre-
tary, and by his energy and thor
Ough 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 Il
fine personal appearance, and at
once impresses you as a man of en-
inent ability.
Atticus g. Haygood was born in
Clark county, Ga, but owing to his
fathers removal, when he was a
boy, to Atlanta, Ga, was brought
up in that city. He is forty-three
years old, lin the very prime OF life,
but of mature mind, which has
been made both strong and patient
by the arduouS and delicate duties
which the church has imposed up
on him since the beginning of his
ministry. He graduated at Emery
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 Sun
day-school secretary by the General
Conference held in Memphis in 1870,
and inaugurated that valuable de-
partment of our work. The degree
of ID. d., was conferred upon him in
1870 by his Alma Mater, of which
he is now the hOnored President.
His success in building up that col
lege is a marvel of wisdom and
work. For four years, while pre-
siding over the college, he has edit
ed the Wesleyan Christian Advo-
cate in a way to make the paper
felt throughout the country. His
capacity for work seems to have no
limit, and his elevation to the Office
OF Bishop is prophecy of an adj
vance movement on all the lines of
movement in the southern church.
Rev. John G. Cranberry, ID. D.,
Bishop elect of the Methodist Epis-
cOpal Church, South, was born in
the city of Norfolk, Va, December
1929. In 1914 he was sent to Ran
dolph-Macon College, then under
the presidency of Dr.. w. y. Smith,
where he spent three years, taking
his diploma at he tie;id of MS class,
in June, 1911. The succeeding
Conference. in November, he joined
tile Virginia Conference, and was
seat 10 tiie Prince Edward Circuit.
Afterwards he ii!i'I other appoint
ments, becoming Chaplain 1T Ran
.!uiph-Macau C,IitG,, P.soiut Oh the
Nrthnd;st Epi-"opii Cnurch, South,
at Washington CITY and Chaplain
of the University OF Virginia.
While at the latter place the war
broke out, and he was appointed
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 car
ried to Fort Warren, from which he
was released as soon as it was estab-
lished that he was chaplain, and
he returned to service again. After
Il service Of four years, he returned
to the pastorate, beginning at
Lynchburg, then Petersburg four
years, Centenary Church four years,
and then Broad street Church, Rich
mOnd, where he WAS pastor when
holds at the Vanderbilt University.
Robert Kennon Hargrove was
born in Pickens county, Ala, Sept.
II, 1929. Educated in the Unlver-
sity of Alabama, having received
the degrees of A. B. and A. NJ.
The degree of d. ID. was conferred
by Emory College, Ga. Converted
September, 1910; entered the minis
try September, 1867, being licensed
by the Quarterly Conference in
Tuscaloosa, Ala, and entered the
Alabama Conference on trial, De-
cenber, 1857. The appointments
served in the Alabama Conference
were Macon Circuit, Havana Cir
cult. Columbus, Miss. Summer
field, Ala, Greensboro, Ark, and
st. Francis street, Mobile. In the
Kentucky Conference, Lexington
Station. In the Tennessee Confer
ence, Franklin Station, McKendree
otdtiOu, NdSIINlIl0 DiStElCt, FTdIlk-
lin District and GAINESVILLE District.
After graduation he was tutor and
then associate Professor of Mathe-
MATES, President of Centenary In
stitute and of Tennessee Female
College. Ordained by Bishop Kav-
anough, and elder by Bishop Bal
ley. Served ON the Book Commit
tee and Board of Missions, and on
the Peace Commission at Cape
May.
Rev. Linus Parker, d. d., was
born in Oneida county, New NOrk,
April %, 1929; in 1915, went to
New Orleans, continuing his educa-
ton; Joined the church in 1847;
licensed to preach in 1919, and in
December of the same year was re-
ceived on trial in the louisiana
Conference, his first appointment
being Lake Providence. His Sec
ond and third years were in the
Shreveport Station; in 1853 he fol-
lowed the Rev. III. n. McTyeire in
Felicity street, church, New Or
leans, remaining in that charge
three years. In 1868 he was sta
toned at Carondelet church, New
Orleans. subsequently he was
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