Biography
Robert Kennon Hargrove was born on September 17, 1829, in Pickens County, Alabama, Pickens County, Alabama. He was religious conversion, converted to Christianity at the age of eleven. He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1852. He was a professor of Pure Mathematics at his ''alma mater'', the University of Alabama, from 1853 to 1857. He entered the traveling Christian ministry, ministry of the Alabama Annual Conferences of the United Methodist Church, Annual Conference in 1857. Prior to his election to the episcopal polity, episcopacy, he served as a pastor and a presiding elder. He was President of the Centenary Institute (Alabama), Centenary Institute in Summerfield, Alabama, 1865–67, and of Tennessee Female College in the 1870s. He was a member of the Cape May Commission in 1876. He was the first to urge a bond scheme, which saved the Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, M.E. Church, South. He originated the Women's Department of Church Extension (for the purpose of securing parsonages in the M.E. Church, South). He was also a member of the Commission that in 1878 established fraternal relations between the Methodist Episcopal Church, M.E. Church and the M.E. Church, South, an important step toward reunification in 1939. He was ''not'' a member of the General Conference (1882) where he was elected bishop. He died on August 4, 1905, in Nashville, Tennessee, and was buried there in Mount Olivet Cemetery (Nashville), Mount Olivet Cemetery.See also
*List of bishops of the United Methodist ChurchReferences
*Leete, Frederick DeLand, ''Methodist Bishops.'' Nashville, The Methodist Publishing House, 1948. *Further reading
*Leah Lipton. "The Boston Artists' Association, 1841–1851." ''American Art Journal'', Vol. 15, No. 4 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 45–57.External links
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