James Hervey Otey

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Bishop James Hervey Otey

James Hervey Otey (born January 27, 1800 in Bedford County , Virginia , † April 23, 1863 in Memphis , Tennessee ) was an American Christian teacher and first Episcopalian bishop of Tennessee.

Live and act

He was born to Isaac Otey and Elizabeth Mathews. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . After graduating in 1820, he became a tutor for Greek and Latin at this school. He married Elizabeth Davis Pannill, with whom he had nine children.

In 1821 he moved to Maury County and became principal of Harpeth Academy . One of his students there was Matthew Fontaine Maury , with whom a lifelong friendship developed. Another of his students was the scholar Benjamin Blake Minor , who later became his son-in-law.

After returning to North Carolina to direct the Warrington Academy, Otey was sustained a member of the Episcopal Church of the United States after his corresponding baptism . In 1825 he became a deacon after studying and in 1827 a priest. Then he returned to Franklin again and founded the first Episcopal Church in Freemasonry , which later became St. Paul's Church. He then founded numerous other churches and finally on July 1, 1829 the Diocese of Tennessee in Nashville . He was elected first bishop in June 1833 and ordained at Christ Church in Philadelphia the following January . After his election he also took over the Diocese of Mississippi and was missionary bishop for Arkansas and the Indian territory that is now Oklahoma . He traveled in these regions for months, planting churches and preaching the gospel .

He was very interested in Christian education and helped establish schools in Ashwood , Jackson and Columbia . His dreams of a "literary and theological seminary" for the region came true when Leonidas Polk , Bishop of Louisiana and his former co-educator at the Columbia Female Institute, directed the founding of the University of the South at Sewanee in 1857 took over.

He lived at this time in "Mercer Hall" in Columbia (1835-1852).

He died in Memphis in 1863. After the Civil War he was taken from the grave there and buried in the cemetery of St. John's Episcopal Church in Ashwood .

literature

  • Otey's Journal: Being the Account by James Hervey Otey, AB, MA, DD, LLD, First Bishop of the Tennessee Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church, of His Travels in the Summer of 1851 in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, von James Hervey; Greninger, Edwin Thomas Otey, 1994 for Overmountain Press; Ex Library edition.
  • Memoir of Rt. Rev. James Hervey Otey, DD, LL. D., the first bishop of Tennessee, by William Mercer Green, 1885 in James Pott & Company.
  • Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church Vol. 4, No. 1 pp. 53-56, by Thomas Frank Gailor, 1935 from the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church

Web links

Commons : James Hervey Otey  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Churchman Associates, inc: The Churchman, Volume 77. Retrieved February 17, 2017 (Otey's curriculum vitae).
  2. ^ Churchman Associates, inc: The Churchman, Volume 77. Retrieved February 17, 2017 (Otey's curriculum vitae).
  3. ^ Churchman Associates, inc: The Churchman, Volume 77. Retrieved February 17, 2017 (Otey's curriculum vitae).
personal data
SURNAME Otey, James Hervey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Christian teacher and first Episcopalian Bishop of Tennessee
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Bedford County , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1863
Place of death Memphis , Tennessee