E. Embree Hoss

Hoss, Elijah Embree, D.D., Bishop of the Amer. Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in Washington County, Tenn., April 14, 1849, and graduated at Emory and Henry College, Va., 1869, of which he was subsequently President. He was Professor in Vanderbilt University for some time, and from 1885 to 1890 editor of the Nashville Christian Advocate. His hymn, "O God, great Father, Lord and King " (Holy Baptism), was included in The Methodist Hymnal, N.Y., 1905. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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Born: April 14, 1849, Washington County, Tennessee.
Died: April 23, 1919, Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Buried: Maple Lawn Cemetery, Jonesborough, Tennessee; he was re-interred there in 1924, having originally been buried elsewhere.

Hoss graduated from Ohio Wesleyan and Emory & Henry College, Virginia (1869). In 1870, he became an ordained minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He pastored in Knoxville, Tennessee (1870-72); San Francisco, California (1872-74); and Ashville, North Carolina. From 1876-81, he taught at Martha Washington College, Abingdon, Virginia, then became president of his alma mater, Emory & Henry College. He was also a professor of Church History at Vanderbilt University (1885-90), and edited the Christian Advocate in Nashville, Tennessee (1890-92). In 1902, he became the Methodist bishop of Dallas, Texas. His works include:

Elihu Embree, Abolitionist, in Publications of the Vanderbilt Southern Historical Society (Nashville, Tennessee: University Press Company, 1897)

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