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28: 196:. Also, for the year preceding Lipscomb's Chancellorship (1859), the University had no presiding official (neither President nor Chancellor) between the time of President Church's resignation and Chancellor Lipscomb's start as the University underwent a comprehensive reorganization. His administration oversaw the construction of the library (currently the north half of the Holmes-Hunter Academic Building) in 1862 and Moore College in 1874. 199:
The offspring of Lipscomb and his first wife, Henrietta Blanche Richardson, also contributed to the University. Their son, Francis Adgate Lipscomb, was a faculty member of the English department. Their grandson, Judge Thomas F. Green, served as a law professor at UGA and as a member of the
162:(New York, 1844). He fared well in Montgomery as a preacher, providing for a family consisting of a wife, two children, and two sisters, and owning two slaves. Compelled by tuberculosis to retire from the ministry, he founded in 1849 the Metropolitan Institute for Young Ladies at 150:, which was dedicated shortly after his arrival; he had solicited a move to Alabama because the climate was better suited for the pulmonary tuberculosis that had plagued him for a number of years. During his tenure in Montgomery he warned of the dangers of 268:"If the devotees of this unholy faith have so rapidly increased within a few years to number TWO MILLIONS, how long will it take them to rival and exceed the American Protestants?", qtd. in Lipscomb 8-9. 146:
church, joining the Maryland conference in 1835, and for some time was President of the Alabama conference. From 1842 to 1849 he was pastor of the Bibb Street Methodist Protestant Church in
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His tenure included a multi-year period (fall of 1863 through January 1866) during which the University was closed due to the
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History of the University of Georgia by Thomas Walter Reed; Frontmatter and Chapter I: The Beginnings of the University
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Lipscomb, Lan. "Andrew A. Lipscombe: A Preacher, Teacher, and Man of Letters in Alabama, 1842-1860".
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Studies Supplementary to the Studies in the Forty Days between Christ's Resurrection and Ascension
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From 1860 until his resignation in 1874, Lipscomb served as the Chancellor of the
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From Ahmedunggar to Lavonia Presidents at the University of Georgia 1785-1997
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University of Georgia Libraries, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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Studies in the Forty Days between Christ's Resurrection and Ascension
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immigration to the United States and the accompanying growth of
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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The Alabama Review: A Quarterly Journal of Alabama History
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President of the
University of Georgia

Alonzo Church
Henry H. Tucker
Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
Athens, Georgia
Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
Methodist Protestant
Montgomery, Alabama
Irish
Catholicism
Montgomery, Alabama
Alabama
Huntingdon College
University of Georgia
Athens
Chancellor
American Civil War
Board of Regents
University System of Georgia
Lipscomb Hall
dormitory
Oconee Hill Cemetery
Reed, Thomas Walter. History of the University of Georgia by Thomas Walter Reed; Frontmatter and Chapter I: The Beginnings of the University.
From Ahmedunggar to Lavonia Presidents at the University of Georgia 1785-1997.
Archived
Wayback Machine
History of Huntingdon College.
public domain
Gilman, D. C.

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