Robert Kennon Hargrove (1829–1905) was an American bishop of the

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, elected in 1882.

Biography

Robert Kennon Hargrove was born on September 17, 1829, in Pickens County,

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. He was

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to Christianity at the age of eleven. He graduated from the

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in 1852. He was a

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of Pure

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at his '' alma mater'', the University of Alabama, from 1853 to 1857. He entered the traveling

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of the Alabama

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in 1857. Prior to his election to the episcopacy, he served as a

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and a presiding elder. He was President of the

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, 1865–67, and of Tennessee Female College in the 1870s. He was a member of the Cape May Commission in 1876. He was the first to urge a bond scheme, which saved the Publishing House of the

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. He originated the Women's Department of Church Extension (for the purpose of securing parsonages in the M.E. Church, South). He was also a member of the Commission that in 1878 established fraternal relations between the M.E. Church and the M.E. Church, South, an important step toward reunification in 1939. He was ''not'' a member of the General Conference (1882) where he was elected bishop. He died on August 4, 1905, in

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, and was buried there in Mount Olivet Cemetery.

References

*Leete, Frederick DeLand, ''Methodist Bishops.'' Nashville, The Methodist Publishing House, 1948. *

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