- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Warren Akin Candler (1857-1941)
- Creator:
- Kemp, Kathryn W.
- Date of Original:
- 2002-11-20
- Subject:
- Candler, Warren A. (Warren Akin), 1857-1941
College administrators--Georgia--Atlanta
College presidents--Georgia--Atlanta
Bishops--Georgia--Atlanta
Methodists--Georgia--Atlanta
Methodist Church--Clergy
Emory University--Presidents - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Warren A. Candler. The tenth president and the first chancellor of Emory University, Southern Methodist Episcopal bishop Warren Akin Candler was the tenth of eleven children born to Samuel Candler, a prosperous Villa Rica merchant and planter, and his wife, Martha Bernetta Beall. Reared in a devout atmosphere, Candler attended Emory College in Oxford, Georgia, from 1874 to 1877. There he discovered his religious vocation and a considerable talent for preaching that would make the Southern Methodist Church the center of his life. After he left Emory he soon married Sarah Antoinette "Nettie" Curtright. The couple had five children, three of whom lived to adulthood.
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- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/people/warren-akin-candler-1857-1941/
- Language:
- eng
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- Cite as: "Warren Akin Candler (1857-1941)," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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