Guide to the John H. Bryson letter MSS.0227
Bryson, John H.
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
February 2008
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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John H. Bryson letter
- Unit ID:
MSS.0227
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.05 Linear feet (1 item, 1 piece)
- Dates:
1891 March 12
- Abstract:
Letter from Bryson, dated 12 March 1891, from Huntsville, Alabama, to the Rev. A. A. E. Taylor, St. Louis, Missouri, inviting him to visit Huntsville and discussing the inauguration of a Mr. Briggs.
- creator
Bryson, John H. , 1831-1897
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains a letter from Bryson, dated 12 March 1891, from Huntsville, Alabama, to the Rev. A. A. E. Taylor, St. Louis, Missouri, inviting him to visit Huntsville and discussing the inauguration of a Mr. Briggs.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
John H. Bryson letter, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
Biographical/Historical note
John H. Bryson, born 3 April 1831 in Fayetteville, Tennessee, was the son of Rev. Henry Bryson, DD, a minister of the Associate Reformed church, and Hannah McMullen Bryson, sister of Rev. J.P. and Rev. R.B. McMullen, two distinguished ministers of the Southern Presbyterian church in the nineteenth century.
He graduated from Erskine College in South Carolina, and completed his theological studies at Newburg, New York.
He entered the Confederate States of America Army as a chaplain (head of the religious department of the Army of the Tennessee, C.S.A.), serving for the duration of the war.
His first church was in Shelbyville, Tennessee, and after a short while he enrolled as a student at the University of Virginia, supplying the Charlottesville church at the same time. He spent five years in Columbia, South Carolina, and after some time spent travelling in Europe, Egypt, and Palestine, accepted a call to a Presbyterian church in Huntsville, Alabama, where he remained for sixteen years. He was the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, which met in Augusta, Georgia, in 1886. He died on 31 January 1897 in Huntsville.
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- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
unknown
- Processing Information:
Processed by
unknown, 2008; updated by Martha Bace, 2012
Source(s)
Alabama (localbroad)
Community and Place (localbroad)
Government, Law and Politics (localbroad)
Huntsville (Ala.) (lcsh)
Letters (correspondence) (aat)
Presbyterian Church - Clergy (lcsh)
Religion and Spirituality (localbroad)
Letter Box 433