Leonidas Polk Family Papers

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famous men the University of the South rightly holds first claim. But Sewanee's title must not be allowed to be exclusive. These men belong also the the Protestant Episcopal Church; they belong to the Anglican Communion; they belong to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of the ages. And at the head of their line we rejoice to recognize that grand triumvirate of Bishops and Fathers in God -- James Hervey Otey of Tennessee, Stephen Elliott of Georgia, and, in their center, Leonidas Polk, Missionary Bishop of Arkansas and the Southwest, first Foreign Missionary Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, first Bishop of Louisiana, and, in the words of Bishop Quintard, "the projector, originator, and real founder of the University of the South."

The life of Leonidas Polk was impressed from the beginning with a military character. Both his father and his grandfather had been soldiers of the Revolution. Born on April 10, 1806, in Raleigh, North Carolina, he received

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.