Mississippi College - Tribesman Yearbook (Clinton, MS)

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J AMES HOUSTON PRICE, the second son of Aaron Price and Fannie Deer Price, was horn August 26th, 1861, at Mountain Creek, Rankin County, Mississippi. He spent his early youth on his father ' s farm, obtaining a rudimentary education in the public schools of that neighborhood. At the age of twenty, he entered Mississippi College, where he maintained himself by manual labor and teaching during vacations. He won the first Trotter medal for oratory, and repre- sented the Hermenian Society as Anniversarian. On the completion of his college course, in 1885, he was elected a member of the Gills- burg Collegiate Institute, and resigned the presidency of that institution in 1889 to enter the Law School of the University of Mississippi. Prior to his university career, he was married to Miss Mary Ida Gill, daughter of William A. Gill, founder of Gillsburg Collegiate Institute. He then moved to Magnolia, Mississippi, and began the practice of law. Since that time no man of his age in South Mississippi has enjoyed a larger or more lucrative practice. In March, 1903, Governor Longino appointed him Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi to fill the unexpired term of Justice Samuel Terrell, deceased. This appointment came to him unsought, and the following Monday he assumed the duties of that responsible position. Within less than a week after he received this high distinction, his wife died suddenly at Magnolia. Judge Price remained on the bench until the close of the spring term. Believing that his duty to his three motherless children was paramount, and feeling that he could not dis- charge his obligation to them to his satisfaction and hold a seat in that high tribunal which demanded his entire time and attention, he resigned in August, and returned to Magnolia and again engaged in the practice of his profession. In April, 1904, he was married to Miss Emily Francis Hyer, a daughter of Doctor Wilbur F. and Eliza Bowen Hyer. While loyai to Democratic principles and party, and taking an active interest in politics, he has never sought political honors. Believing the law a jealous master and worthy of his undivided time and allegiance, he has applied himself closely to it, and is regarded as one of the representative members of his profession in south Mississippi. Together with his entire family, he is a member of the Baptist Church. He is also a Mason, an Odd Fellow, and Knight of Pythias. Reared on a farm, his love and sympathy are with the agricultural classes. He is engaged in farming, and is much concerned in the methods of fertilizing, the selection of the best seeds for planting, and the general advancement and develop- ment of south Mississippi. He has been a member of the State Democratic Executive Committee; is now president of Pike County Democratic Executive Committee; president of the Pike County Bar Association, member of the Executive Committee of State Bar Associa- tion, and president of the Mississippi Alumni Association. 20 J. H. Price, ’85

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J. G. Chastain, ’82 are we greatly indebted advantage. J AMES GARY IN C HASXAIN, like most of the men who have gone out from Mississippi College to strive for the betterment of their fellow-men, came from the farm. He was born in Itawamba County, Mississippi, December 18th, 1853. His boy- hood was spent in manual labor and going to school at intervals. After teaching county schools for fifteen months, he entered Missis- sippi College in 1877 and received his A. 15. degree in 1882, with first honors, delivering the valedictory address. During most of his five- years course, he paid his expenses by doing various duties around the college buildings, teaching penmanship, and a part of the time acting as assistant in the preparatory depart- ment. He took part in the first military com- pany, and was made one of its officers, rising to the rank of lieutenant. As a member of the Hermenian Society, he was very popular and efficient in the performance of his duties, serv- ing as fall orator and anniversarian. To him for the magnificent library of which we now have the , M . r : C1 ?astam took his postgraduate course at the University of Mississippi ?eeolnGo? 1,1 f nd ; n “ ta physies in ,88;i - Here his literary ability was cognized, and he was elected to the editorial staff of the Phi Sigma Literary Society. himself of p baptist denomination in 1873, and has since proven plTtor evamS- 8 ext “ f the Kingdom. After two years as at Louisville IV - anon and the adjoining counties, he entered the seminary He ew lan ’,, a T T if n ? mduated in 1888 - While taking a course in the Mex eo Z? t if Virginia, he was appointed missionary to j il • ° fT cam e to him in grand old Virginia, he was happily married to Miss Mary Lillian Wright, of Norfolk , He is completing his twentieth year as missionary — four at Matehuala, six t V L r0y0 v t f rec at MoreI1 °’ and seven at Guadalajara. A year after I a mi , xl °’ IC 0 S an his career as a Spanish writer by preparing portions of et ures o e ( e ivered before the theological institute for native preachers. For ur years 1( was a stated contributor to La Luz, the Baptist organ of the republic ounded and edited Nuestros Ninos , also edited El Expositor Biblico, the only I aptlst Sun, i la y school publication in Spanish in the world. His course of eight • n i U u 8 ° n en l ;euc ' h has been repeatedly called for in more permanent form, k manuscript is nearly ready for the press, the book to be used by the native pas ors and other Christian leaders. Other productions of similar nature are xpec e tiom the facile pen of Mr. Chastain in the future. He received his D. D. irom Mississippi, in 1897. l 9 3

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T O DO things well is to do them easily? but with that ease with which the giant oak puts out its foliage after years of gathering strength. Those who know T. T. Martin and witness the ease and efficacy with which he is accomplishing his noble work, know that there was and must necessarily have been a growth and ripening of his powers. He is one of that band of consecrated men who have given their lives to evangelistic work, but whose personality and supreme ability fit him for any high calling or profession in life. Excepting brief attendance upon the schools of his native county, Smith, he re- ceived his early education in the preparatory department of Mississippi College. During this time his attention was divided between his studies and The Baptist Record , of which his father was manager. The practical work of the printer at this early stage was as really educa- tional as the work of the classroom. Indeed, certain phases of education are best secured by these practical demands upon the student life. From 1883 to 1886 he was unin- terruptedly in college and devoted himself to college duties and life with that zeal and purpose which have marked his whole career. lie was not of the tradi- tional paleface type, devoting himself to books only, but he entered with breadth and zest into college life as a whole. There wa no part of it that did not interest and enlist him, and there was a sympathy, amiability, and natural force in him that made him a leader and powerful factor in the student body. He was lall orator and Anniversarian of the Philomathean Society, in his Senior year received gold medal for literary excellence, was two years captain of the baseball team, and was graduated with first honors of the Class of 1886. Immediately after graduating from Mississippi College, he was elected to the chair of natural sciences, in Baylor College, Texas, which position he filled with credit and satisfaction until he resigned to enter the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He completed the full course here in 1896. Shortly after his seminary course was finished, he accepted the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Cripple Creek, Colorado, and continued in this work, doing incalcuable good until the call came repeatedly to enter the Evangelistic field. Where duty called lie never refused to go. He came rapidly to the front in this new field of work, and because of his service and power, multitudes shall rise up in the future to bless him. He has held ten series of meetings in Louisville, Kentucky; three in Wash- ington city, and two each in Atlanta, Georgia; Lexington, Kentucky; Mobile, Ala- ama; Pine Bluff, Arkansas; Denver, Colorado; and Portsmouth, Virginia. A great amount of his work is done in the largest college centers, and his services are in great demand in every section of the country. T. T. Martin, ’86 21