Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-05-25
THE NEW BISHOPS OF
N. f. CHURCH, SOUTH
Short Sketches of Men Elected to
the Episcopacy
ALL COLLEGE MEN BUT ONE
Bishop Collins Denny Was Born in
Winchester

The Christian Advocate OF Nash
vile Tenn, last week published the
following sketches Of the seven new
bishops elected by the recent Gen
eral Conference Of the Methodist |
Episcopal Church, South, at Ashe-
Vile:
Collins Denny was born in Win !
chester, Va, May %, 1854. He was
educated in the Shenandoah Valley
and in Princeton University aud the
University of Virginia. He practiccd
law in Baltimore two years. but
felt the call to preach and joined the
Baltimore Conference in 1850. He
spent ten years IN the itinerancy in
this Conference. In company with
Bishop Wilson. he visited the Asia
tic mission in 1886 He was chaplain
of the University of Virginia from
1889 to 1891. and came TO Vanderbilt
University in 1891 where he has
held the chair Of Philosophy until
the present.
Johs Carlisle Kilgo was born in
Laurens County, S. c. July %, 1861.
He was educated in various schools
and received the Nj. A. degree from
Wofford College. He entered the
ministry Of the Methodist Church in
1882, and served in the itinerancy
! in the South Carolina Conference
until 1889, when he was made agent
of Wofford College, an Office which
he held until 1894 He Was elected
President of Trinity College, Dur
ham, n c.. in that year, and held
that position until his election ~ the
episccpacy. on May l6.
William Bolton Murrah. son o:
Rev. William and Mary S. Murrah,
was born in Pickensville, Ala, in
Nav, 1852. He graduated from
Southern University, Greensboro.
Ala, in 1874. He joined the North
Mississippi Conference in 1873; was
stationed at Oxford, Miss, 1S77-Sl;
Winoua, Miss lSS1-S5; Aberdeen,
Miss. 1886. lie was Vice Presi-
dent Of Whitworth College, Brook
haven. Miss. from 1856 TO 1890. He
has been President of Millsaps Col
lege mississippi since 1892.
Walter Russell Lambuth is the
son of the honored pioneer mission
aries, J.W. and Mary Lambuth, who
are buried in Japan. He was born
in China November 10, 1854. He re-
ceived his A. degree from Emory
and Henry College, and his degree
in medicine from Vanderbilt, with
postgraduate work in Bellevue,
Edin burgh, and London. He was
appointed medical missionary tC
China in 1877, where he established
the hospital in Soochow. Later he
was transferred to open missionary
work in Japan. He has been Genera
Secretary of the Board Of Missions
since 1894, and has visited from tims
to time not only all of the mission
fields, but all OF the Conferences il
the interest of mission work. He was
last fall made member OF the Roya
| Geographical Society Of England.
r. G. Waterhouse was born il
, Rhea County, Tenn. He was edu
, Gated in Hiwassee and Emory am
= Henry Colleges, graduating from
| the latter 1885. He served in thu
S Holston Conference for q number o
i years, and was then elected to tn,
5 chair of English in Emory and Henri,
3 College, and was soon afterward
: made Presidentof the college. Unde
| his management the school has beel
q greatly improved in its genera
equipment. Bishop Waterhouse ha
f, represented Holston in the Genera
y Conference number OF times, an
q displayed many gifts of leadershi
4 in his work for the Church.
i Edwin ID. Mouzon was born i
q Spartanburg, S. C., May 10, 1885,
r He graduated from Wofford Colleg
g m 1889. Soon after graduation h
n went TO Texas, where he served d
t q supply 70, six months. Returnin
e home, he was admitted to the Sout
s Carolina Conference, but was tran:
O ferred 10 the Texas Conference. an