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Robert Kennon Hargrove (1829–1905) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1882. ==Biography== Robert Kennon Hargrove was born on September 17, 1829 in Pickens County, Alabama. He was 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 Ministry of the Alabama Annual Conference in 1857. Prior to his election to the episcopacy, he served as a pastor and a presiding elder. He was President of the Centenary Institute in Summerfield, Alabama, 1865–67, and of Tennessee Female College, 1878-73. 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 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 M.E. Church and the M.E. Church, South, an important step toward reunification in 1939. Interestingly, 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 in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Nashville. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Kennon Hargrove」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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