The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-06
NOTED BISHOP
 PASSES AWAY Oscar Penn Fitzgerald Dies
 at MOnteagle FUNERAL IS MONDAY
Venerable Churchman and Author Has Been Active Figure in Life of South for Years--Was
 Old Newspaper Man

Monteagle, Tenn, August 5.-Bishop oscar Penn Fitzgerald of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, died at his cottage here this afternoon of neuralgia of the heart. For the last 10 days news of his death would not have been unexpected. The venerable churehman and author had been in III health for several years, and during the last year had been very feeble. Ten days ago he suffered an attack of neuralgia of the heart, which was followed a few days later by another attack.
 With Bishop Fitzgerald when he died were his daughters Mrs. J. H. Nye and Mrs. J. B. Robertson of Nashville; his sons, William s. Fitzgerald of Tul- lahoma and Oscar Fitzgerald of Allen G. Hall of Nashville, friends of the family.
 The body will arrive at Nashville Monday morning and be taken to the residence, 17 Garland avenue The fu- neral will be held from West End Methodist church at 2:30 o'clock Mon- day afternoon. The services will be conducted by Dr. G. B. Winton, Dr.
  pr. Fitzgerald Parker. Burial will be at Mount Olive cemetery. Honorary pallbearers will be I. W. Manier, ST.
 pr. w. !. Ewing, w. R. Gale, pr. l.
 Lowinthal. Dr. J. H. McNeilly, Rev. R.
 Lincave, Jesse Cage, D. M. Smith, Rev. 1 Henry Beech Carre
 Active pallbearers: Chancellor J. H.
 Kirkland, pr. Allen G. Hall, c. M. Neel- ey, John Bell Keeble, John Early Will | Vaughn, J. E. Hart w. E. Park. 1 Nashville, Tenn. August 5.-Oscar Penn Fitzgerald was the son of Richa I'd and Martha Jones Hooper Fitzgerald, and was born in Caswell, N. C., August | "A, 1929 His middle name was taken | from that of the Rev. pr. Abram Penn,
 who baptized him in infancy, with the expressed hope that he might become minister.
 Having received a common school ed- | ucation in North Carolina he rode in a | four-horse stage to Virginia, where he went in search of work. His first serv- l lee was in the composing room of the | Lynchburg Republican. Later he be- came a clerk in the office of the Lynch | burg Post and while so engaged the Mexican war came on. His father, re- sponding to the call of his country. | marched to Mexico with General Scott and oscar Penn ed home to North Carolina to support hlS mother by teaching in the neighborhood.
 Newspaper Man
 | When the war was over the young man returned to his newspaper work, obtah- ing place on the Richmond Exailhef' of which the late John w. Daniel was then political editor, and of which Edgar Allan Poe was about to be made literary edltof when his genius was stiled in death. It was favorite theme with Bishop t1tz- gerald, his acquaintance with Poe. on one occasion he heard Poe lecture, the :m- presson being a profound one. .Bishop Fitzgerald this time was about 20 years of age.
 From Virginia he young man went to Georgia. where, after a trying spell or typhoid fever, his attention was directed to the ministry. In 1854, at the Georsla Methodist conference meeting at Atlanta, with Bishop Capers presiding, he was ad- mitted and was sent to Savannah as a Junior preacher. A short time later he went to the far west as a missionary. In 1867 he was chosen superintendent of public instruction of California, continu- ing in the position for four years. While in California he was for a time editor of the Pacific Methodist and Christian Spec tator. Returning to the south in 1878, tle was elected editor of the Nashville Chris tian Advocate, an organ of the Southern Methodist church, succeeding Rev. Dr. T. R. Summers. In 1886, when the general conference of the church met in Picn- i four years later, when the conference met xCUNSlgUED ON FACE O