Leonidas Polk Family Papers

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fathers that begat us.... Leaders of the people by their counsels, and by their knowledge of learning meet for the people, wise and eloquent in their instructions." (Ecclesiasticus 44:1,4.)

When we associate these familiar words of the son of Sirach with the history of the University of the South, what a galaxy of famous men -- bishops, priests, laymen -- rises before our eyes. As we glance backward along the illustrious line we recognize among others William Porcher DuBose, eminent theologian, founder of the School of Theology; John McCrady, Professor of the Relations of Religion to Science; Telfair Hodgson, Dean of the School of Theology and Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Polity; General Edmund Kirby-Smith, Professor of Mathematics; Major George R. Fairbanks, Commissioner of Buildings and Lands and Historian of the University; Charles Todd Quintard, Bishop of Tennessee, first Vice-Chancellor of the University and prime mover in its re-establishment following the War between the States. To these and to a host of other

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Leonidas Polk, Bishop and General (2 Vols.), by William M. Polk, Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, 1915.

Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, The Bishop Polk Centennial Number, December, 1938, including the following article's: Bishop Thomas C. Brownell's Journal of His Missionary Tours, 1829 and 1834, with notes by William A. Beardsley. Leonidas Polk: Early Life and Presbyterate, by William Wilson Manross. Missionary Episcopate in the Southwest, by Walter Herbert Stowe. Diocesan Episcopate in Louisiana, by William Samuel Slack. Beginnings of the University of the South, by Moultrie Guerry. The Confederate General, by James Postell Jervey. Funeral Sermon, June 29, 1864, by Stephen Elliott, Bishop of Georgia.

History of the University of the South, by George R. Fairbanks, The H. and W. B. Drew Co., Jacksonville, 1905.

Man who Made Sewanee, by Moultrie Guerry, The University Press, Sewanee, 1932.

Reconstruction at Sewanee, by Arthur Benjamin Chitty, Jr., The University Press, Sewanee, 1954.

So Great a Good, A History of the Episcopal Church in Louisiana and of Christ Church Cathedral, by Hodding Carter and Betty W. Carter, University Press, Sewanee, 1955.

An Address delivered in St. Augustine's Chapel, Sewanee, Tennessee, at the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of the South, on Thursday, July 31st, 1890, by Charles Todd Quintard, LL.D., Cantab., Bishop of Tennessee.