New-York tribune., 1903-02-13
DIR. j. l.. N. CURRY DEAD.
Er- Minister to Spain and Vel
Kno1Cn Southern Educator.

Charlotte y. C. Feb. 1.-THE Rev. DR.. ;.
L. NJ. Curry, ex-Minister to Spain, and one of
the best known educators in the South died
in Asheville. N c.. tonight at the home of
his brother-in-l Colonel Connolly, from
Rright's disease DR. Curry had been critically
i'll for the last weeks Mrs Curry arrived
from Philadelphia last week. and at the
bedside of her husband when his death occurred.
The Rev. DR. Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry was
soldier statesman. educator and diplomat and at
tained distinction in each capacity. He will per
haps be best remembered the administrator for
many years of the George Peabody and John F
Slater funds. devoted to educational purposes IN
the South through which great amount Of good
has already been accomplished. and whose bene-
fetal work continues with enlarged opportunities
Dr. Curry was born in Lincoln County. Ga. June
5 1926. When he thirteen years old his parents
removed Alabama. He was graduated az the
University of Georgia in 1S43 and from the Harvard
Law School in 1s45. He began the practice or his
profession in Alabama. and wGs elected to the
legislature State in 1847. serving one term
and being reelected in 1858 and again In 300 AT
the expiration of this third of two years he
was sent Congress. serving two terms. from 1851
to 1851.
When Alabama seeded he resigned his seat IN
the National House OF Representatives and was at
once elected to the Ist Confederate Congress. serv
ing until the end of the Civil War. He was also
an aid on the staffs of Generals J. E Johnston ana
Joe Wheeler, and lieutenant colonel or the 9th
Alabama Cavalry, c. S. A.
In 1855 he became president OF Howard college
Ba ptist institution in Alabama. remaining there
three wears and in 1868 appointed professor of
the English language and of philosophy and lect-
urer on international and constitutional law in
Richmond College remaining in that position until
1851 On the death of Dr. Barnas Sears. the general
agent of the Peabody Fund for Southern Educa-
ton the trustees elected DR.. Curry to succeed him.
and he was eminently successful in its administra-
ton
When President Cleveland made DIR. Curry envoy
extraordinary and minister penipotentiary to Spain
in 1855 the Pea body Fund trustees refused TO MI
his pIace and on his return from Madrid in 1SsS
he resumed the work
In 1890 he was elected trustee or the Jonn r
Slater Fund and as chairman of the educatfOnaI
committee he afterward administered its work. as
well as that of the Peabody Fund In 1907 Dr.
Curry was the special representative of the United
States at the exercises at Madrid, Wnen hIhg
Dr. curry was ordained a Baptist minister just
after ths war He the author OF StrugsleS
and Triumphs of Virginia BaptistS- He also wrote
.sTbe History of the Peabody Educational Fund
ana was the author Of Professionalism; HOW Far
a Failure" establishment and D1Sesta oilsh neht:
or The Progress of Soul Liberty in the United
States" Francis Strother Lyon as conn Conlmlssoner *
on5 Trustee of Alabama" Constitutional Govern
mcnt i'm Spain william Ewart Gladstone. Il ne
Southern States of the American Union IN IheH
iTnion'' and Civil History of the Confederate Gov
ernnert'' He also frequently contributed 10 lndSd
.ineS and reviews His home in recent years hati
been in Washington, and before lhat III FNlchiloii'