Atticus Greene Haygood
Atticus Greene Haygood | |
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| President of Emory College | |
| In office 1876–1884 | |
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| Born | November 19, 1839 Watkinsville, Georgia |
| Died | January 19, 1896 (aged 56) Oxford, Georgia |
| Occupation | Clergyman |
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Atticus Greene Haygood (1839–1896) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He edited a Wesleyan newspaper, served as president of Emory College, and wrote several publications.
Biography[]
Atticus Greene Haygood was born in Watkinsville, Georgia on November 19, 1839, and graduated at Emory College in 1859.[1][2] He entered the ministry where he edited the Sunday-school publications of the Southern branch of the church. He edited the (1878–82), served as president of Emory (1876–1884),[1][3] and was a General Agent of the Slater Fund, which assisted educational institutions for African Americans following Reconstruction.
Haygood declined an election as Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1882; but he accepted another election in 1890. Rev. T. H. Tyson established a newspaper for African Americans in Oklahoma in 1890 called Our Brother in Black, after one of Haygood's texts.[4]
Atticus Greene Haygood died in Oxford, Georgia on January 19, 1896.[2] Haygood Hall, a dormitory at Oxford College of Emory University, is named for him. The neighboring United Methodist Church is Haygood Memorial of Atlanta, named for Bishop A. G. Haygood.
Works[]
- Our children (1876)
- Our Brother in Black (1881)
- Speeches and Sermons (1884)
- Pleas for Progress (1889)
- Jackknife and Brambles (1893)
- The Monk and the Prince (1895)
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. I. James T. White & Company. 1893. p. 520. Retrieved April 30, 2021 – via Google Books.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Death of Bishop Haygood". The Watchman and Southron. Atlanta. January 22, 1896. p. 3. Retrieved April 30, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Emory History: President Haygood, accessed 25 May 2017.
- ^ https://www.muskogeephoenix.com/news/local_news/african-american-publishers-served-community/article_85a6aefc-af56-11e4-a18e-cb6a090daf22.amp.html
Further reading[]
- Mann, Harold W. (1965). Atticus Greene Haygood : Methodist bishop, editor, and educator. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820335438. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
External links[]
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Wikisource has the text of a 1892 Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography article about Atticus Greene Haygood. |
- Works by Atticus Greene Haygood at Project Gutenberg
- Emory History: President Haygood at Archive.org
- Atticus Greene Haygood at Find a Grave
- Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Atticus G. Haygood family papers, 1861-1952, Haygood family genealogical collection
- Haygood Memorial
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- 1839 births
- 1896 deaths
- American Methodist bishops
- Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
- American non-fiction writers
- American theologians
- Emory University alumni
- Presidents of Emory University
- American sermon writers
- 19th-century American clergy