Leroy J. Halsey

Leroy Jones Halsey (1812-1896) was an American Presbyterian scholar and author.

Leroy Jones Halsey
Born1812
Died1896
NationalityAmerican
OccupationPreacher
Author
RelativesHenry F. Halsey (brother)

Biography

Career

He worked as a Professor of Historical and Pastoral Theology at the McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago.[1][2]

Although he was living in Chicago during the American Civil War of 1861-1865, he was directly affected by the war through his direct family. Indeed, in a letter addressed to Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), who served as the 17th President of the United States from 1865 to 1869, sent on September 26, 1865, Presbyterian minister David Xavier Junkin (1808-1880) explained that Leroy's brother, Henry F. Halsey (1815-1887), had been ruined by Union troops, who took over his factory in Alabama.[2] As a result, Leroy was the only one left to support his brother's family in the vanquished South.[2] Junkin asked Johnson to have the factory returned to Henry Halsey, making it possible for him to earn his livelihood again.[2]

He is credited for first coining the sobriquet "Athens of the South" to refer to Nashville.[3] The phrase was later promoted by Reverend Philip Lindsley (1786–1855), a Presbyterian minister who founded the University of Nashville.[3] He went on to edit a volume of Lindsley's publications. Additionally, he wrote a memoir about Reverend Lewis W. Green (1806-1863), another Presbyterian minister who served as the President of Hampden-Sydney College from 1849 to 1856, of Transylvania University from 1856 to 1857, and of Centre College from 1857 to 1863.[4]

Death

He died in 1896.

Bibliography

As an author
  • The Literary Attractions of the Bible (R. & R. Clark, 1858).[5]
  • Memoir of the Life and Character of Reverend Lewis Warner Green, D.D., With a Selection From His Sermons (New York, 1871).
  • Scotland's influence on civilization (1885)
  • The Beauty of Immanuel

As an editor
  • The Works of P. Lindsley. Edited by Le Roy J. Halsey. With Introductory Notices of His Life and Labours. (1866).[6]

References
  1. Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1873, p. 578
  2. Paul H. Bergeron (ed.), The Papers of Andrew Johnson: September 1865-January 1866, Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 1991, p. 133
  3. Christine M. Kreyling, Wesley Paine, Charles W. Warterfield, Susan Ford Wiltshire, Classical Nashville: Athens of the South, Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1996, p. xiii
  4. John D. Wright, Jr., Transylvania: Tutor to the West, Louisville, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2006, p. 181
  5. Google Books
  6. Google Books
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