Robert Kennon Hargrove

Robert Kennon Hargrove
Robert Kennon Hargrove (left) as published in Christian herald and signs of our times (1895)
Born	(1829-09-17)September 17, 1829 Pickens County, Alabama, U.S.
Died	August 4, 1905(1905-08-04) (aged 75) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Resting place	Mount Olivet Cemetery Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Education	University of Pennsylvania
Occupation	Bishop

Robert Kennon Hargrove (1829–1905) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1882.

Biography

Robert Kennon Hargrove was born on September 17, 1829, in Pickens County, Alabama. He was converted to Christianity at the age of eleven. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1852.

He was a professor of Pure Mathematics at his alma mater, the University of Alabama, from 1853 to 1857. He entered the traveling ministry of the Alabama Annual Conference in 1857.

Prior to his election to the episcopacy, he served as a pastor and a presiding elder. He was President of the Centenary Institute in Summerfield, Alabama, 1865–67, and of Tennessee Female College in the 1870s. He was a member of the Cape May Commission in 1876. He was the first to urge a bond scheme, which saved the Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South. He originated the Women's Department of Church Extension (for the purpose of securing parsonages in the M.E. Church, South). He was also a member of the Commission that in 1878 established fraternal relations between the M.E. Church and the M.E. Church, South, an important step toward reunification in 1939.

He was not a member of the General Conference (1882) where he was elected bishop.

He died on August 4, 1905, in Nashville, Tennessee, and was buried there in Mount Olivet Cemetery.

See also

• List of bishops of the United Methodist Church

References

• Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops. Nashville, The Methodist Publishing House, 1948.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1891). Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

Further reading

• Leah Lipton. "The Boston Artists' Association, 1841–1851." American Art Journal, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 45–57.

External links

• Robert Kennon Hargrove at Find a Grave