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Holland Nimmons McTyeire (
July 28,
1824–
February 15 1889) was an American
Bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1866. Among his many accomplishments, he was instrumental in the founding and funding of
Vanderbilt University.
Birth and family
Bishop McTyeire was born
28 July 1824 in
Barnwell County,
South Carolina, the son of
Methodist parents. Holland converted to
Christianity at an early age, professing his faith at thirteen. He attended the higher schools available at the time: first at
Cokesbury, South Carolina, then
Collinsworth Institute in
Georgia. By these schools he prepared himself for college.
Education
Holland graduated from
Randolph-Macon College in
Virginia (
A.B. degree, 1844). He was among the earliest graduates of this institution, the
mother college of Southern Methodism. One biographer states of McTyeire, "[Randolph-Macon] has given to the Church and world no son of greater worth and distinction."
Ordination and editorial ministry
Already licensed to preach, McTyeire was admitted on trial into the Virginia
Annual Conference in November 1845. He was appointed to
Williamsburg,
Virginia. After one year's service, he was transferred to the
Alabama Conference, admitted into full connection at the first of 1848. In Alabama he pastored at
Mobile and
Demopolis. He also pastored in
Columbus,
Mississippi, transferring to the
Louisiana Conference, where he was
ordained elder in 1849. He also was a pastor in
New Orleans.
In 1854, McTyeire was elected
editor of the
New Orleans Christian Advocate, serving in this position until 1858. He was then elected editor of the
Nashville Christian Advocate, the central organ of the
M.E. Church, South. Interrupted in his editorial career by the
American Civil War, he entered the
pastorate again in the Alabama Conference, serving in the city of
Montgomery, from which he was elected to the
episcopacy in 1866 at the General Conference meeting that year in New Orleans.
Episcopal ministry
McTyeire led a movement within the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to establish "an institution of learning of the highest order." In 1872, a charter for a "Central University" was issued to the bishop and fellow petitioners, who represented the nine M.E. Church, South
Annual Conferences of the mid-south. Their efforts failed, however, for lack of financial resources.
Early in 1873, McTyeire went to
New York for medical treatment. The bishop's wife was a cousin to Commodore
Cornelius Vanderbilt's second wife. This connection led to Vanderbilt giving McTyeire $1,000,000, which the bishop used to found Vanderbilt University. Bishop McTyeire was named its
president in 1873.
Selected Writings
- Manual of the Discipline
- Duties of Masters
Biographies
Fitzgerald, O.P., Holland N. McTyeire. Nashville, 1896.
Bishop McTyeire's "Memorial Sketch" in the Conference Minutes of the M.E. Church, South General Conference of 1890, pp. 76-78.
Sources
"McTyeire, Holland Nimmons" in The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Samuel Macauley Jackson, ed. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1954.(External Link
)
Memoir (including picture), in Christian Advocate, Nashville: Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 23 February 1889 issue, pp. 112-113. (External Link)Further Information
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