- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Bishop James Osgood Andrew historical marker
- Creator:
- Seibert, David, 1941-2020
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Wilkes County
Methodist Church--Clergy - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Washington County, 32.96954, -82.7959
United States, Georgia, Wilkes County, 33.78195, -82.74323 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Andrew Dr. near Spring St. (Ga. 47) in Washington
Text of marker: "BISHOP JAMES OSGOOD ANDREW. James Osgood Andrew was born in Wilkes County, Georgia, on May 5, 1794, about 400 yards N.E. of this marker, the son of Rev. John Andrew and Mary Cosby Andrew. He was licensed to preach in the Ellam Methodist Episcopal Church, Broad River Circuit, Elbert County, in 1812. Recommended by Dr. Lovick Pierce he was received into the South Carolina Annual Conference that year. Elected bishop at the General Conference in Philadelphia in 1832. The deepening problem of slavery involved him when his house servant, Kitty, chose not to be freed, declined to go to Liberia, and remained with the Andrew family. The 1844 General Conference passed the famous "Finley Resolution" asking Bishop Andrew to "desist" from exercising the office of Bishop as long as he was a slaveholder, though an unwilling one. This issue caused the Church to divide and in 1845 the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was organized. Bishop Andrew continued his effective ministry, was first president of the Trustees of Emory College, and, after his death May 1, 1871, in Mobile, Alabama, he was buried in the historic cemetery at Oxford, Georgia. ERECTED 1971 BY COMMISSION ON ARCHIVES AND HISTORY, THE NORTH GEORGIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_bishop-james-osgood-andrew
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_bishop-james-osgood-andrew
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Please contact markers@davidseibert.com about commercial reproduction and use
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
-
