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VIRGINIA BAPTIST MINISTERS
George Braxton Taylor
FIFTH SERIES
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VIRGINIA BAPTIST MINISTERS
FIFTH SERIES 1902 - 1914 WITH SUPPLEMENT
BY
GEORGE BRAXTON TAYLOR
Professor and Resident Chaplain Hollins College, Pastor of the "Hollins Field," and author of "Life and Letters of Rev. George Boardman Taylor, D. D .; " "Virginia Baptist Ministers, Third Series ;" "Virginia Baptist Ministers, Fourth Series."
WITH A FOREWORD BY REV. GEORGE W. McDANIEL, D. D.
1915 J. P. BELL COMPANY, INC. LYNCHBURG, VA.
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COPYRIGHT, 1915 BY GEORGE BRAXTON TAYLOR
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To MY BROTHER JAMES SPOTSWOOD TAYLOR, M. D. SURGEON UNITED STATES NAVY
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FOREWORD
The history of any people is the biographies of its great men. This is preeminently true of Virginia Baptists. As the life of a state is seen best in the lives of its leading citizens, the history of Virginia Baptists is fully and faithfully delineated in the lives of its ministers. They are a noble succession. From the days of Semple, Rice, and Clopton, through all the intervening years, among the fairest names on the pages of history are the defenders of our Faith.
The biography of the eminently pious may well be regarded with deep and living interest. In every herald of the Cross we behold a monument on which is in- scribed the triumph of the gospel. They reflect with no common luster the glory of their divine Redeemer. These "good ministers of Jesus Christ" have left their impress on the world. Where is the state, North, South, East, or West, that has not been made a debtor to the ministry of Virginia? The memorial of their deeds is recorded in this series of biography. Preceding volumes have been widely read, and preserve in permanent form the consecutive story of our people from the beginning in Virginia down to the present day. The forthcoming volume will be gladly welcomed, and will possess an entrancing interest for the reader of to-day, because it holds the portraiture of those of our own time. Many of these we have "seen in the flesh," and, having known, we love. They are among the faithful ministers who were pastors of the churches where we now worship, and who led many of us to Christ, and baptized us, and married us. They buried our dead and now they have
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ceased from their labors, and we are reaping in the fields where they so richly sowed.
Our historian has here a happy period to cover-the men of this volume he has known in person, and his information comes to us first hand. Princely subjects has he too, for among these are the beloved Tupper, Hawthorne, Hatcher, and George Boardman Taylor, his own earthly father. There are countless others dear to many of us, and faithful in every relation of life, whose biographies adorn these pages.
The work has been well done. It is fitting that the history so nobly begun and prosecuted through two volumes by the gifted Dr. James B. Taylor should be continued so worthily by his distinguished grandson, Dr. George Braxton Taylor. The Baptists of Virginia, the South, and, indeed, of all the world, are under a lasting obligation to Dr. George Braxton Taylor, the versatile and scholarly author of the forthcoming volume, the fifth of the series, and the third one to be edited by him. He has, gratuitously, rendered this beautiful serv- ice to the denomination. With him, as with his illustri- ous grandfather, it was a labor of love. His task has been pursued with patience, through careful research, in pains- taking application, and with a discriminating mastery of details. Who else among us has made so large a con- tribution of his time and his talent as has Dr. Taylor, in this splendid service so unselfishly rendered to the great Baptist Brotherhood ?
GEO. W. McDANIEL.
Pastor's Study, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. Oct. 4, 1915.
PREFACE
In 1837 Rev. James B. Taylor published the "First Series" of "Lives of Virginia Baptist Ministers." The "Second Series," written by the same hand, covered the period to 1860. Upon the request of the Baptist General Association of Virginia the "Third Series" and the "Fourth Series" were written and published. Details as to the origin and scope of these two "Series" will be found in the preface of each of these volumes.
A Resolution, offered by Rev. Dr. E. W. Winfrey, at the meeting of the General Association at Lynchburg, in 1913, and adopted by the body, requested the author of the "Third" and "Fourth Series" to prepare a "Fifth Series." The Association appointed W. F. Fisher, W. W. Hamilton, and W. S. Royall, a committee to cooperate with the author in the matter of the publication of the "Fifth Series." This "Fifth Series" is now presented. It contains sketches of ministers who died between 1902 and 1914. (Some of the sketches in the Supplement be- long to an earlier period. ) The roll may not be complete, yet the effort has been to make record of all. Even where men have so recently passed away, in many cases it has been impossible to secure the facts necessary for satis- factory accounts of their lives. In one or two instances relatives were unwilling for sketches of their loved ones to be published. To help secure the five hundred advance subscriptions necessary to make the publication of an edition of a thousand volumes possible, each of the fol- lowing persons has subscribed for ten copies: Rev. Dr. E. W. Winfrey, Culpeper; Mr. F. W. Whitescarver, Salem; Rev. W. A. Pearson, Keysville; Hon. Chas. A. Johnston, Christiansburg; Mr. Richard H. Edmonds, Baltimore; Mr. A. J. Chewning, Richmond, Va .; Mr. H. M. Riffe, Elliston; Mr. George A. Diuguid, Lynch- burg; Mr. E. E. Tompkins, Roanoke; Mr. E. R. Monroe, Brookneal; Rev. Dr. James T. Dickinson, Brooklyn; Mr. E. L. Flippo, Roanoke; Mr. M. P. Gate- wood, Pleasant View (Amherst County) ; Rev. F. P.
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Berkley (Baptist Church), Covington; Judge W. W Moffett, Salem; Mrs. D. G. Whittinghill, Rome.
It would be impossible to set down here the names of all who have helped to supply the data for these lives. Not a few of these kind friends are mentioned in various sketches. It is not perhaps invidious to say that Prof. W. A. Harris, of Richmond College, by his willing and patient assistance, has made possible more than one of the life records that follow. Dr. R. H. Hudnall, of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, has read the "proof" and rendered other valuable help.
This "Fifth Series" is presented with the sincere hope that it will do good, give pleasure, and, by perpetuating the story and showing the spirit of noble men of God, bring many young men to hear the call of God to the gospel ministry. While it has been the aim to secure accuracy, there are doubtless errors. Wherever it was possible original sources, such as Minutes of Associa- tions, family records, letters, and files of newspapers, have been consulted. If I could have spent a considerable time in the room of the Virginia Baptist Historical Society at Richmond College, this volume might have been made more interesting. In the midst of my twofold work as pastor and professor, among the blue mountains at Hollins, with now and then a day in the archives at Richmond, by more than two years of work, this volume has been prepared. While it has not seemed best to give the authority in a footnote for each statement, all of the sketches are based on presumably reliable information. To write this book has been a joy and a blessing to me, making me realize more fully what I had known before, that the Virginia Baptist Ministry is a consecrated band of brothers, who, with love that envieth not and that thinketh no evil, work together with a high degree of unselfishness, for the coming of the Kingdom of God in Virginia and the world.
GEORGE BRAXTON TAYLOR.
"The Hill," Hollins, Va.,
October 4, 1915.
CONTENTS
ABRAHAM, WYCLIFFE YANCEY
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BALDWIN, NOAH CALTON
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BAPTIST, EDWARD LANGSTON 424
BARNES, JAMES HENRY 229
BARRON. ALONZA CHURCH.
141
BEALE, FRANK BROWN.
207
BEALER, GEORGE B. 479
BILLINGSLEY, JOSEPH FRANCIS. 403
BOATWRIGHT, REUBEN BAKER
369
BOSTON, FRANCIS RYLAND.
311
BRAXTON, THOMAS CORBIN
500
BROWN, WADE BICKERS 154
BUCKLES, WILLIAM N. 201
CARPENTER, J. C ... 497
CLAYBROOK, FREDERICK WILLIAM 437
CLOPTON, SAMUEL CORNELIUS 104
COLEMAN, JAMES D.
452
COLLIER, CHARLES WELDON
435
COOPER, GEORGE
406
CRIDLIN, RANSELL WHITE.
379
CURRY, JABEZ LAMAR MONROE. 53
DAVIDSON, JUDSON CAREY. 427
DAUGHTRY, WILLIAM BONNIE 411
DAVIS, JAMES ALLISON 83
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DICKINSON, ALFRED ELIJAH
166
DODGE, HENRY W
474
EATON, THOMAS TREADWELL 483
EDMONDS, RICHARD HENRY
449
EDMONDSON, THOMAS F
120
EDWARDS, RICHARD
179
ELLYSON, ONAN
251
EUBANK, ALEXANDER
67
FAULKNER, JOHN KERR 385
FLEET, ALEXANDER
362
FLIPPO, OSCAR FARISH
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FUNK, BENJAMIN
239
FUNK, TIMOTHY
234
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DEANS, JOSEPH FRANKLIN.
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GARLICK, JOSEPH R.
345
GATEWOOD, THOMAS BRECKENRIDGE.
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GILBERT, ROBERT BABBOR.
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GREGORY, ERNEST THOMAS
103
GRIMSLEY, SIMEON U.
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GRIMSLEY, THOMAS F
365
GWALTNEY, JAMES LANCASTER
501
HART, JOSEPH WASHINGTON 433
HASH, ALBERT GRANT.
326
HATCHER, HARVEY
121
HATCHER, WILLIAM ELDRIDGE
348
HAWTHORNE, JAMES BOARDMAN
253
HAYMORE, ROBERT DANIEL
274
HEALY, NATHAN
503
HESS, JAMES
163
HUME, THOMAS, JR
337
HUNDLEY, JOHN WALKER.
442
JAMES, BENJAMIN CARTER 164
JAMES, CHARLES FENTON
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JONES, FRERRE HOUSTON
314
JONES, JAMES E 330
218
KEELING, HENRY 504
KEMPER, JAMES FOLEY 287
KENDRICK, JOSEPH B.
374
KERN, I. T
212
KINGSFORD, EDWARD
490
LAMB, JOHN MOODY
127
LANCASTER, JOHN FRAZIER
273
LEONARD, JOSEPH 281
LEWIS, THOMAS W.
130
LUCK, JAMES PASCHAL
392
LUKE, ISAAC V
482
LUNSFORD, ROBERT RHODAM
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MAIDEN, JAMES FRANKLIN
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MARTIN, JOHN W.
298
MASON, SAMUEL GRIFFIN
241
MASSIE, SAMUEL P.
441
MAY, ISAAC NEWTON
367
MCCOWN, JOHN W.
244
MCDONALD, HENRY
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MEADOR, CHASTAIN CLARK
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MILBOURNE, LODOWIC RALPH
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JONES, JOHN WILLIAM
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MUNDEN, NATHAN M.
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MUNDAY, JAMES ALEXANDER
269
MURDOCH, JOSEPH RYLAND. 147
NEWMAN, THERON WALLACE 97
NORRIS, CALVIN ROAH 431
OWEN, AUSTIN EVERETT
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PARRISH, MADISON E
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PEARSON, THOMAS P. 286
PENICK, WILLIAM SYDNOR
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PENNINGTON, BALLARD PRESTON
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PERRY, JOHN MAJOR.
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PETTY, HENRY
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POLLARD, JOHN
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QUARLES, JOHN RHODES 242
RAGLAND, HUGH DAVIS
421
RANDOLPH, JOHN THOMPSON 144
READ, MASHALL W.
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REYNOLDS, ALBERT D.
323
RHODES, WALTER
328
RICE, ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER.
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RYLAND, CHARLES HILL
455
RYLAND, JOHN WILLIAM
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SALLADE, JACOB
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SANFORD, ROBERT BAILEY
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SCOTT, THOMAS D
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SELFE, WILSON V.
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SETTLE, VINCENT THOMAS
477
SHAVER, DAVID
498
SHEPHERD, THOMAS BENTON
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SNEAD, GEORGE HOLMAN.
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SPEIGHT, JOHN ALEXANDER
389
STRATON, HENRY DUNDAS DOUGLAS
446
STUART, CHARLES EDWIN
284
TAYLOR, GEORGE BOARDMAN 187
TAYLOR, JAMES BARNETT, JR.
300
TAYLOR, JAMES IRA. 296
THAMES, TRAVIS BUTHY
487
THOMAS, JAMES MAGRUDER
400
THOMAS, JOHN RICHARD.
413
THOMPSON, S. H.
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TRIBBLE, HENRY WISE
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TUCKER, R. ATWELL
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TUPPER, HENRY ALLEN
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TURPIN, JOHN BROADUS
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WARD, JOHN WYATT
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WARREN, PATRICK THOMAS
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WEBB, W. R.
237
WHARTON, MORTON BRYAN
203
WHITSITT, WILLIAM HETH.
290
WILKINSON, JOHN ROBERT
332
WILLIAMS, GEORGE FRANKLIN
415
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM HARRISON
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WILLIAMSON, ROBERT
282
WILLINGHAM, ROBERT JOSIAH
462
WILLIS, JOHN MILTON
231
WILSON, M. A.
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WOODFIN, AUGUSTUS BEVERLY
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WRENN, C. E.
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HENRY ALLEN TUPPER 1828-1902
Autobiography is probably the best biography. A request once came to Dr. Tupper from a magazine for a sketch of his life. In declining the request he said: "A man's true life can not go on paper, and one not true should not go." Yet a record of his life, which Dr. Tup- per wrote, probably with no idea of publication, ought to be published. Until that is done, the extracts which fol- low give interesting pictures of a noble and highly useful life.
"I am impressed by the truth which is hinted in con- sciousness, made plain by reason, and clearly stated in the Word of God, that every man must give an account of himself unto God. According to the family Bible, I was born in Charleston, S. C., on the 29th of February, 1828. Believing in a minute Providence, I presume that there was some reason why I should be born in Leap Year, but as I have never noticed anything in my life or character which seemed to have any relation to this odd period of time, not even the oddness for which many of my father's family were noted, I shall pass by my natal day, which, during my boyhood, was always specially celebrated, with the mere record of its date.
"I do not believe in the transmission of grace, but in my anxious desire and hope with regard to myself, as a child of God, I can not but feel a lively satisfaction that the whole of my mother's family, so far as I know of them, were godly people. I knew my maternal grand- mother and can testify as to her pious living and hopeful
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dying. The journal of my grandfather, Jacob Yoer, breathes throughout the spirit of divine grace, which accords with the evidence of my noble inother, who never tires of her praises of her father's deep and devoted spir- itual character. He counseled his children to read the Bible on their knees. They were both Charlestonians by birth and members of the First Baptist Church of that city. Their remains are lying in the yard of that church. My great-grandmother, on my mother's side, I shall die believing that I recollect. For many years this notion was a subject of laughter in the family, but I could never be laughed out of the testimony of my memory, in which I have always had more confidence than in any other of my mental faculties. The Nullifica- tion of 1832 I remember perfectly-the preparing of cockades and sticks, the smuggling in of boxes of arms, the drilling of the boys, the street fights, and the popular songs, one of which was:
"‘H- is a gentleman, Who rides in a gig; P -- is a blackguard That runs on a pig.'
"The birth of my brother, Tristram, who is some three years my junior, I distinctly remember-rather, I dis- tinctly remember that I cried for the baby and wished to lock him up in what was called 'my top drawer.' In the Lutheran churchyard of Charleston the epitaphs of these pious great-grandparents, who were natives of Heidelberg, may be read. If I can not hope for a godly life on the ground of the peculiar piety of my mother's family, may I not possibly trace the ardent sentiments of my heart as a Baptist with regard to religious liberty to my ancestry of 'obstinate Lutherans', and with regard to missions, to the fact that three or more successive generations of my father's
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family were devoted to this work? The record of my father's family [is] a document over forty feet long and tracing the family through some 500 members to the year 1551, when they were driven by Charles V from Hesse Cassel to England, and the Island of Guernsey. The Records show that Thomas Tupper, who was born in Sandwich, England, and who came to this country before 1637, was greatly interested in the welfare of the Indians. Died March 28, 1676, aged upwards of 98 years. His wife died this same year, aged 90. [He] filled various offices, besides giving much of his time to the work of gospelizing the Indians. Tupper appears in the
original form as Toppfer called Toutperd in France, and by corruption Toupard in the Netherlands, whilst in Germany and England and America the name assumed the form so familiar to the public as the designa- tion of the author of 'Proverbial Philosophy'.
The Family Records show
the motto on the
Coat of Arms of the family, 'L'espoir est me force.' It is written of Thomas Tupper, Sr .: 'A town meeting 6 mo., 7, 1644, warned by order of the Select- men to take course for repairing the meeting-house; whereupon divers persons engaged freely to pay in goods and merchantable Indian corn the next April to Thomas Tupper for as many bolts as would shingle the old meeting-house. The church was composed of Mr. Tup- per and ten others. He officiated without
ordination for a time then he turned his atten-
tion to the Indians. At this period, 1767, Mr. Elisha Tupper was engaged in missionary efforts among the Indians. Even in these early
times these independent folk did not like to be taxed for the gospel. In 1745 Medod Tupper and twenty-four others attending a meeting in the meeting-
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house in the western part of the town were petitioners to be excused from paying for the support of Mr. Fessen- don.
"My father, Tristram Tupper, settled in Charleston, S. C., in 1810, when he married my mother, Eliza Yoer (original name, Jover), in 1816, and died with the fall of the city of his love, to whose inter- ests he had been devoted for more than half a century, in 1865. For sixty years the Commission House of T. Tupper, and T. Tupper and Sons, which for many years sold most of the produce sent from Louisiana to Charleston, was the synonym of commercial honor and ability. My father was the author and finisher of the South Carolina Railroad from Charleston to Augusta. Ga., which, when completed, was the longest railroad in the world, and of which he was president for many years. Mainly through his influence the First Baptist Church edifice, one of the finest structures in the city, was built. Excepting my eldest brother, born in 1817, all of my nine brothers and sisters, with myself, were born in the old home, No. 52 Tradd Street. And a happy home it was. My father was a wise man. His maxims of wisdom were strikingly original. When I was going away from home he wrote on a sheet of paper : 'Virtue is happiness; vice is misery.' When the children departed from wisdom's way they found a standing rebuke in the life and character of their father.
My mother was one of the most beautiful and
intellectual women I ever knew. Her parents sent her from Charleston to be educated in Philadelphia, where she gave much attention to the Fine Arts and formed the acquaintance of some of the most distin- guished men of the times. My mother's journal, in several quarto volumes, which she kept for nearly two- thirds of a century, will be, and is, I presume, the com-
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pletest history extant of Baptist affairs in Charleston. The great longing of mother's heart was the intellectual and religious education of her children, while a breach of decorum was almost a crime in her eyes. Her own manners were loveliness itself, and she con- trolled more powerfully by her smiles than she could have done with a rod of iron. Father seldom commended. My father was a man of few, direct words. Thomas Tupper 'ranted,' says the Annals, and was touched with fanaticism. My father was the antipode of this, but his children are not like their paternal parent. I know that naturally I am given to hyperbole. My father was the most accurate man, in all business, I ever knew. At table and in the family circle money was rarely or never men- tioned. To speak of the cost of things and the like was regarded a lack of good taste, rather it was never done because somehow it had never been done and we never thought of doing it. In my father's office the lessons of business order and carefulness were positive and vigorous. A clerk would have been instantly dis- missed for making the least deviation in the price of any commodity for sale. My father made all of his boys keep petty cash books. In the midst of my college course he took me into his office, much to the dis- tress of mother and my own dissatisfaction, and kept me there for two years and until I became the bookkeeper. This I regard now as the most important two years of my education. For thirty years I have kept a cash book and can tell at any time my income and expenditure at any period during that time. Last year I had occasion to inquire on a point of that kind, and in a few minutes I found that in twenty years I had expended some $250,000, of which amount some $110,000 had been given to the Lord. . The
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counsel which my father gave to all his sons was: 'Avoid, if possible, all money responsibilities for others.' Before he would take a son into business-and five of them were first and last in the firm of T. Tupper and Sons-he made him agree in writing that he would never endorse a note, out of the regular order of the business. He would never advise a son to go into a bank or any busi- ness of the kind. Scarcely a week passed in my childhood and youth that company was not invited to the house. Mother's rule was that all children should be seen. No child was allowed to run when company called or came on invitation. If we did no more, we had to come in and bow and retire. Most of us made several trips to the North in our youth, and all of the family have since, I believe, delighted in this recreation. I became too fond of company and the dance, and could in my younger days only check the love of society by the conviction that its excess is hurtful to better things.
"At three years old I went to the infant class of the First Baptist Church, under the pastorate then of Rev. Basil Manly, Sr., in which school I remained until I went to Madison University to study theology. In this school I made the acquaintance of Jas. P. Boyce and of his sister, now my wife, and by whose influence I was led to take a class in the Sabbath school even before I had made a profession of Christ. I only remark here that the pointed questions of my pupils excited very solemn inquiries in my mind .. One of the prominent features of the school was the Mite Box to raise money for the heathen. My Sunday-school teacher was my first day-school instructor. Her method was peripatetic, as we learned our alphabet and our spelling walking around a circle and singing out the letters and the sylla- bles in more or less musical or unmusical accent. To
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two other ladies I went to school before I was eight years old: Mrs. Hitchborn, a neighbor, who used to give me cracked sugar when I cried, and Mrs. Levy Yates, whose school was located on the edge of the water, which is now covered by the Park or South Battery, and from which water I was once rescued when drowning, although I begged my rescuer to save my hat first that mother might not know that I had been in to swim. A penalty
of the school was to stand up on a chair and read the Bible, which reading was not always done with the most seemly state of mind. Being laughed at when in that elevated position by two girls, I jumped down, and, holding their heads together, kissed them both, for which offense one of the young ladies, now Mrs. B. P., did not forgive me for many years. Another penalty was being locked up in the pantry. When thus incarcerated I forced an apple whole into my mouth, which forbidden fruit had to be cut out piece by piece. In a copy of Goldsmith's Natural History, which I received as a prize, I see that I was at Rev. Dyer Ball's school in 1836, when I was eight years old. Dr. Ball, shortly after this, went to Asia, where he was a missionary for many years. As I was too young to recite with the boys, I 'said my lessons' downstairs to Mrs. Ball with her two little girls, Mary and Caroline. While at this school I had a little moral experience which may not be out of place. On the inside of a drawer of an old washstand, which may be seen now in the attic of our old home in Charles- ton, are the figures 2068. That number indicates the marbles which I had won, and which the drawer con- tained. My sister asking me, 'What is the difference between winning marbles and gambling?' I took my spoils to school and divided them among the boys, and since that day have never offered or received a wager. At the High School my most intimate friend
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was Henry Hannibal Timrod, the Poet. His middle name he subsequently omitted. He was the most passionate, the most high spirited, the most eloquent boy I knew. His lofty honor was a constant inspiration to my soul. His love of the beautiful and the true made my mother to admire him as the companion of her boy. At this time I excelled in sports, running, riding, dancing, swimming, pistol shooting, etc. I was more noted for them than as a student. While I was at Charleston College there were three presidents : Colonel Finley, Judge Mitchell King, and Dr. Wm. T. Brantley. I have nothing to be proud of in my college course. Imbibing skeptical notions, I preached them to knots of students as I had opportunity. When I repented I tried to undo the mischief. About this time I took to public lecturing on Temperance, though but a boy. In this I received at least the benefit of being taken down by seeing my dear grandmother weeping while I was telling a funny story and by being told that the 'puff' in the next day's Courier was written before my address was delivered.
"After our conversion, Boyce and I started for Madison University. In New York we heard from Dr. Conant that we must make up a quarter's Hebrew in three weeks, as the Senior Class had studied it the last term. Boyce's eyes being weak, he returned home and married. I hastened to Hamilton, engaged a private tutor, with whom I went through Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar, in the time allotted. In this study I believe I stood respectably, as Dr. Conant told me I made a mis- take in not accepting the chair of Hebrew in Furman University. My intercourse with Drs. Kendrick, Conant, Eaton, Maginnis, and others, and, above all, with the sainted Dr. Kendrick, Sr., though bedridden, was a good education in itself. At the University the spirit
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