Mississippi College - Tribesman Yearbook (Clinton, MS)

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T HIS widely known, useful and highly- esteemed minister of Jesus Christ was born in Illinois, October 13, 1832. When only three years of age his parents came to Madison County, Miss., where he grew to manhood. He was educated in the common schools of the county and at Mississippi Col- lege, where he was at the beginning of the war preparing for the ministry. He entered the Confederate Army as a private soldier and was a member of the Eighth Mississippi Regiment, in which he served the first two years as a soldier and the last two as a chaplain. He participated in most of the great battles fought by the Army J. A. Hackett, D. D. Northern Virginia and in many of the religious revivals that characterized the army at that time. When peace returned to our Sunny South he entered fully and legulaily into the work of the ministry. In 1876 he resigned a pastorate in the interest of the “Mississippi Baptist Record,” the newly-established organ of the State Convention, and was connected with that paper for some time. As a preacher, Doctor Hackett is warmly and thoroughly devoted to the grand old Pauline doctrines of the Bible, the good old paths in which there is sate walking and rest for the soul. His preaching is of such a character as to produce solid results and had he given himself wholly to the work of the ministry there would have been no better or more successful preacher in the State. He was first elected trustee of Mississippi College in 1868. 20

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B. W. Griffith H ONORABLE B. W. GRIFFITH, son of General Richard Griffith, who fell at Savage Station in the war between the states, was horn in Hinds County, Miss., January 3, 1853. After receiving his preparatory education in the public schools in and around Jackson he entered Mississippi College in 1870, and two years later was graduated with the degree of B. A. as valedictorian of his class. Later, the degree of Master of Arts was conferred on him. After serving as bookkeeper in the Capital National Bank of Jackson for several years, he was elected cashier of that institution which position he held until 1893. He was then elected president of the First National Bank of Vicksburg, Miss., a position he still holds. Mr. Griffith is one of those consecrated laymen who are doing so much to advance the Christian cause in our State. He has been a deacon for nearly thirty years and is ever ready to lend his influence and means for the advancement of any worthy cause, for many years he was Superintendent of the Sunday School at Jackson and filled the same office at Vicksburg for several years. A loyal friend of the College, he has served on the Board of Trustees for a num- ber of years and has been a member of the executive and investment committees of that Board ever since these committees were named. He was elected Mayor of Vicksburg on the reform ticket in 1904 and has given that city a clean, conservative and yet signally progressive administration. 9

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Reverend Charles L. Lewis EREND CHARLES L. LEWIS was born near Philadelphia, Miss., Octo- ber 2, 1853. Our Civil War and the years of reconstruction made it quite impossible tor him to prepare tor college betore manhood. His boyhood days were spent on the farm. He entered Mississippi College in the fall of 1876 and spent toui and a halt years in College, with distinction every year in class standing. An attack ot measles so weakened his eyes that he was never able to finish his Senior }ear. Mr. Lewis was licensed to preach in 1876 and was ordained by the Clinton Church in 1881. He has been a pastor with full work for the last twenty-eight years, during twenty ot these being pastor at Raymond, Miss. He was mar- ried to Miss Jennie Gully, September 30, 1883. From 1884 to 1887 he was a proctor at Mississippi College. He was a financial agent of the College from 1893 to 1896 and is now auditor ot both Mississippi College and the Mississippi Baptist Orphanage. 21