Hargrove, Robert Kennon

D.D. (Emory College, Oxford, Ga, 1872), bishop of the Methodist-Episcopal Church South; b. in Pickens County, Ala., Sept. 17, 1829; graduated at the State University of Alabama, at Tuscaloosa, 1852 was itinerant preacher in the Alabama Conference, 1857-67; in the Kentucky Conference, 1868; in the Tenne ee Conference, 1868-82; profe or of mathematics in the University of Alabama, 1853-57; chaplain in the Confederate army; president of the Centenary Institute, Sumrnerville, Ala., 1865-67; of the Tenne ee Female College at Franklin, 1868-73; member of Cape May Commi ion for adjudicating differences between Methodism North and South, 1876; elected bishop, 1882. He has written articles in periodicals.