Atticus Greene Haygood

Atticus Greene Haygood (1839–1896) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Biography

He was born in Watkinsville, Ga. and graduated at Emory College (Georgia) in 1859. He entered the ministry where he edited the Sunday-school publications of the Southern branch of the church. He edited the Wesleyan Christian Advocate (1878–82), served as president of Emory (1876–1884),[1] 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. Atticus Greene Haygood died in January 1896.

His works include:

  • 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)

Haygood Hall, a dormitory at Oxford College of Emory University, is named for him. In addition, the neighboring United Methodist Church, Haygood Memorial of Atlanta, carries Bishop A. G. Haygood's name.

See also

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.

References
  1. Emory History: President Haygood, accessed 25 May 2017.
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