Mississippi College - Tribesman Yearbook (Clinton, MS)

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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

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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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|ERRIN H. LOWREY is a son of General M. P. Lowrey, the founder of Blue Moun- tain F emale College. He was born April 2, i860, at Kossuth, Miss. After the war he worked on the farm, attended the public schools of Tippah County and was finally prepared for the Sophomore class of Mississippi College in the Blue Mountain Male Academy, which was then presided over by Captain 1 . B. Winston. He graduated at Mississippi College in 1882. He made a high record at College and in his Senior year was anniversarian of the Philo- mathean Society. After graduating he taught school for one year and then entered upon the study of Law in the office of Judge J. G. Hall of Sardis, Miss. Judge Lowrey has devoted most of his life to the practice of Law. He has not sought political honors, though often urged to do so. It has been his choice to devote himself strictly to his profes- sion. He served for three years as Circuit Judge of his district, having been appointed by Governor A. H. Longino, but he resigned before his term expired, because he preferred the private practice and found it more profitable. He has the honor of being the first Mississippi judge to call a special term of court in order to prevent a lynching. Judge P. H. Lowrey For a dozen years fudge Lowrey has been an efficient member of the Board of Trustees of Mississippi College. He is known throughout the State as a lawyer of large ability and conspicuous integrity. He is a Baptist deacon; has always been either a teacher or superintendent in the Sunday School of his church; has been moderator of his association, and vice-president of the Mississippi Baptist Convention. He is a younger brother of the present president of Mississippi College and the twin brother of Booth Lowrey, the noted poet and platform lecturer. 22