History of Pickens County Alabama United States of America

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Andrew Fuller Fox, representative, was born in Pickens county, Ala., April 26, 1849. He attended the public schools and in 1877 was admitted to the bar, practising at West Point, Miss. He was a delegate to the Democratic national convention in 1888 and was elected a state senator in 1891, which office he resigned in 1893 to accept that of U.S. district attorney for the northern district of Mississippi. He was a Democratic representative from the fourth district of Mississippi in the 55th, 56th and 57th congresses, 1897-1903.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Robert Kennon Hargrove, M.E. bishop, was born in Pickens county. Ala., Sept. 17, 1829. He entered the sophomore class of the University of Alabama and was graduated in 1852, receiving his A.M. degree in 1855. He was instructor in mathematics, 1852-53, at the University of Alabama; succeeded Professor Benugh as professor of mathematics in 1853; and was associate professor of mathematics, 1854-57. He was licensed as a Methodist minister in 1857, and was pastor of churches in Columbus, Miss., Mobile, Ala., and elsewhere, 1857-65; was president of the Centenary institute, Summerfield, Ala., 1865-67; president of the Tennessee female college, Franklin, Tenn., 1868-73; and preached on stations, 1873-82. He was elected bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in 1882, and was the first to urge the adoption of the bond-scheme that saved the book concern at Nashville from bankruptcy. He originated the department of woman's work to secure Comfortable homes for the clergymen of the Church, forced by the itinerant system to make frequent changes of residence, and was a member of the commission which in 1876 established fraternal relations between the Methodist churches, north and south. He succeeded Bishop McTyeire as president of the board of trustees of Vanderbilt university in May, 1889, was a member of the committee on federation, Washington, D.C., January, 1899; secretary of the college of bishops, 1884-1900, and chairman of committees on applications, and on translation, for foreign missions.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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