a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was born in Nashville, Tenn., March 27, 1839. After receiving a liberal education, he was licensed to preach in June 1858, and admitted on trial into the Holston Conference in October 1858. In 1862 he became chaplain in the Confederate army, and in 1869 was appointed professor at Asheville, N.C. His labors there were very brief, as he died suddenly of inflammation of the brain, June 2, 1870; See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Church, South, 1870, p. 410.