History of Cheraw, (Chesterfield County) South Carolina United States of America

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Albert Micajah Shipp, educator, was born in Stokes county, N.C., Jan. 15, 1819. He was graduated from the University of North Carolina, A.B., 1840, A.M., 1845. In 1841 he was made a member of the South Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was successively pastor at Charleston, Columbia, Sumter and Cheraw, S.C.,and at Fayetteville, N.C. He was president of the Greensboro Female college, Greensboro, N.C., 1848?50; professor of history in the University of North Carolina, 1849?59, and professor of French there, 1850?53. He declined the chair of English literature in Wofford college. Spartanburg, S.C., in 1853, and was its president, 1859?72. The endowment fund of the college was decreased by the losses of the civil war, but President Shipp made vigorous efforts in 1863 and 1869 to recover and increase it. In 1866 Wofford college was endowed with a chair of history and Biblical literature, and later with a school of divinity, which was put in charge of President Shipp. He was professor of exegetical theology in the Biblical department of Vanderbilt university, at Nashville, Tenn., 1875?85, and succeeded Dr. Thomas O. Summers as dean and vice-chancellor of the university in 1882. He was a delegate to the general conferences of the Methodist Episcopal church, 1850?86, and the originator of Biblical professorships in Methodist colleges. He received the degree of D.D. front Randolph-Macon college in 1839, and that of LL.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1883. At the request of the conference of South Carolina he wrote History of Methodism in South Carolina (1883). He died at Cheraw, S.C., July 27, 1887.

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

Patrick Neeson Lynch, R.C, bishop, was born in Clones, Ireland, March 10, 1817. His parents immigrated to the United States in 1819 and settled at Cheraw, S.C. Patrick attended Bishop England's Seminary of St. John the Baptist at Charleston, S.C., and in 1834 was sent by Bishop England to the Propaganda college, Rome. He was ordained priest, April 5, 1840, by the Cardinal Prefect, and returned to Charleston, where he was assistant at the cathedral, 1840-44; pastor of St. Mary's, Charleston, 1844-55, serving also as vicar-general of the diocese. In 1855 he became administrator to Bishop Reynolds, deceased and governed the see until 1858, when he was elected his successor and was consecrated bishop of Charleston, March 14, 1858, by Archbishop F. P. Kenrick, assisted by Bishops Portier and Barry. He took personal charge of a yellow-fever hospital during the epidemic of 1848, and his own life was saved by the nursing of faithful sisters. Bishop Lynch was a firm supporter of the South in the civil war. In 1861 a fire broke out in Charleston, destroying the cathedral and the bishop's house, and during the subsequent siege his people were greatly scattered. He was sent by the Confederate authorities on a special mission to France, intended to counteract the effect of Bishop Hughes's mission in behalf of the North. At the close of the war the rebuilding of such churches and institutions as were absolutely necessary cost $150,000, and in addition he owed the sum of $100,000 to poor people who had intrusted him with their money. The latter of his life was spent in collecting this money, which was all paid except $17,000 at the time of his death. He edited Deharbe's "Series of Catechisms," and is the author of an account of the Vatican council and The Blood of St. Januarius, published in the Catholic World and in book form. He died in Charleston, S.C., Feb. 26, 1882.

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