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James H. DeVotie
James H. DeVotie (1814–1891) was a Baptist minister in the American South. Born in Oneida County, New York, he was a pastor in South Carolina, Alabama and Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. He was a co-founder of Howard College in Marion, Alabama, later known as Samford University near Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham. He was a long-time trustee of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. He served as a Confederate States Army, Confederate chaplain during the Civil War. After the war, he worked for the Southern Baptist Convention. Early life James Harvey DeVotie was born on September 24, 1814, in Oneida County, New York, to Presbyterian parents.Grady McWhiney (ed.), Warner O. Moore, Jr. (ed.), Robert F. Pace (ed.), "Fear God and Walk Humbly": The Agricultural Journal of James Mallory, 1843-1877, Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2013, pp. 494-49/ref> His father died when DeVotie was a child. At the age of seventeen, he moved to Savannah, Georgia, where one of his uncle liv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oneida County, New York
Oneida County is a county in the state of New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 232,125. The county seat is Utica. The name is in honor of the Oneida, one of the Five Nations of the Iroquois League or ''Haudenosaunee'', which had long occupied this territory at the time of European encounter and colonization. The federally recognized Oneida Indian Nation has had a reservation in the region since the late 18th century, after the American Revolutionary War. Oneida County is part of the Utica–Rome, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area. History When England established colonial counties in the Province of New York in 1683, the territory of present Oneida County was included in a very large, mostly undeveloped Albany County. This county included the northern part of present-day New York State as well as all of the present state of Vermont and, in theory, extended westward to the Pacific Ocean. This county was reduced in size on July 3, 1766, to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |