The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1910-05-19
Or. KILGo ELECTED BISHOP.
The General Conference Selects Tflnl-
" President on First Ballot.

dispatches 1IOul ASHcNiiic
Monday contained the good news
to Durham people that DIR. John
G. Kilgo, president Of Trinity
College has been elected Bishop.
Asheville, May 16. At the
close of the afternoon session of
the first days balloting for the
high officers Of the episcopacy in
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, three men have been
chosen and as a matter of COIN
cidence, the three are men who
have labored for years in the in
situations Of learning Of the
church.
On the first ballot the vote
showed the election of DR.. John
C. Kilgo Of the North Carolina
Conference, for a number of
years president of Trinity COL
lege, Durham, and DR.. Collins
Denny of the Baltimore Confer
ence, who for a number of years
has been a member of the facul-
I
ty Of Vanderbilt Unive sity,
Nashville, Tenn.
John Carlisle Kilgo, the son Of
Rev. James T. Kilgo and Gather
inc Mason KiIgo, was born July
%, 1861, Fairfield county, South
Carolina.
The place of his birth was the
little brick parsonage occupied
by his minister father, who has
the unusual fortune Of having
seen his three oldest sons enter
the Methodist ministry. Young
j. C. Kilgo first felt a desire to
preach but resisted in his biogra-
pher writes, until May of 1882,
less than 81 years of age when
he yielded to his call. 1t was in
December Of tlat year that be
married Miss Fannie N. Turner,
the daughter Of a prominent citi-
zen of Gaffeny.
DR.. Kilgo was educated at
Wofford college. but owing to
failure of his eyes was compelled
to quit college before graduation.
Notwithstanding this fact he
holds various degrees which the
colleges of the country have
gladly conferred upon him.
DR.. Kilgo's ministerial life is a
comprehended, before coming tc
Trinity college, in Bennetsville
circuit 1882 "a; Timmonsville cir
cult 1SS4-7; Rock Hill circuit
1867; and Little Rock circuit
1888. In that later year, be
was made financial agent Of
Wofford college and the burden
of raising an endowment of $780,
900 fell upon him. In two years
lit had been done. A vacancy il
the Wofford faculty, combining
the chairs of philosophy ant
economics, formerly filed b,
Bishop A. Coke Smith, was fillet
by him and in 1892 he was mad,
a master of arts by the Woffort
faculty. While at Wofford, th,
death Of a presiding elder mad
necessary the choice Of anothei
and he served at that time Will
great acceptability, giving nearl,
all Of the salary to the widow o
the dead.
From this time his life in Dur
ham has been the common his
tory Of everybody. He was in
vited to this college in the yea
of 1894 and has served out hi
sixteenth year. 1t was an un
promising institution. 1t hat
fallen upon hard times and will
a property valuation Of less thar
$50, 900, with nine members Of ;
! faculty and 153 students, b,
bravely set about building th,
. lost fortunes Of Braxton Craver
Of sainted memory. One Of tn
: best known southern colleges
the most richly endowed in tn,
south, worth far above a million
, Is Trinity college Of today, Will
I such substantial growth as Il
make necessary large addition