Biography:

Methodist clergyman; bishop. Born– November 7, 1858, Choctaw County. Parents– Hezekiah and Amanda (Hawkins) Du Bose. Married– Rosa Chaney, December 6, 1882. Married– Gertrude Vaughn Amis, 1899. Children– Six. Education– Attended Waynesboro Academy in Mississippi; also taught by languages and classics tutors. Licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1876; ordained, 1879. Served as pastor of churches in Mississippi (1879-81); Galveston (1881-82), Huntsville (1883-84), Houston (1885-86), and Tyler, Tex. (1887-1888); Los Angeles, Calif., 1876-1898; secretary of the Epworth League and editor of the Epworth Era, Nashville, 1898-1910; served as pastor in Augusta (1910-1911) and Atlanta, Ga. (1911-1915). Edited the Methodist Review, 1916-1918;book editor of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, 1915-1918;  elected bishop May, 1918, and stationed in Berkeley, Calif. Commissioner to Ecumenical Methodist Conference held in London, 1921. Member of 1901 Ecumenical Conference and of the World Sunday School Convention. Active in the temperance movement. Awarded honorary D.D. by Emory and Henry College, 1892. Died January 15, 1941.

Source:

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Publication(s):

The Bible and the Ages. New York; F. H. Revell, 1930.

The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1924.

The Consciousness of Jesus. Nashville; Smith and Lamar, 1917.

The Crisis of Criticism. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1923.

Francis Asbury. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1909.

The Gang of Six. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1906.

A History of Methodism. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1916.

The Law and the Prophets. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1924.

The Life and Memories of Reverend J. D. Barbee. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1906.

Life at Its Best. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1908.

Life of Joshua Soule. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1911.

Margaret, a Poetic Idyll. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1906.

The Men of Sapio Ranch. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1909.

The Planting of the Cross. San Francisco; Whitaker & Ray, 1903.

Rupert Wise. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1889.

The Symbol of Methodism. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1907.

Through Two Generations. New York; F. H. Revell, 1934.

Unto the Dawn. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1896.