Biography:

Methodist clergyman, educator. Born– August 10, 1849, Lowndesboro. Parents– Edward Joseph and Anne Jane Hamill. Married– Ada L. Tuman, July 7, 1885. Children– Three. Education– East Alabama Male College at Auburn, A.B., 1868; Illinois College, A.M. 1900.   Served in Civil War, 1864-1865. Held positions as city school superintendent in Illinois and Missouri; president of the Missouri State Teachers Association in 1885. Ordained a Methodist minister, 1885. Active as fieldworker in Methodist Sunday School movement; established the first State Sunday School normal department in 1889. Superintendent of Sunday School program in Illinois, 1889-96; international Sunday School field secretary, 1896-1902. Chaplain-general of United Confederate Veterans, 1913.  D.D. Illinois College, 1900. Died January 22, 1915.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online.

Owens, T.M., History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography.

Publication(s):

Sam Davis; a True Story of a Young Confederate Soldier. Griffin, Ga.; Mills Printing Co., 1911?

The Bible and Its Books. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1903.

Legion of Honor Teacher-Training Lessons. Chicago; W. B. Jacobs, 1908.

Manual of Southern Methodism; including Church History, Doctrine, Polity, and Missions. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1909.

Practical Outline; Study of the Four Gospels. Chicago; Winonn Publishing, 1904.

The Old South, a Monograph. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1904.

The Sunday School Teacher. Nashville; Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1902.