Samuel Candler This is Me

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1. 1. New Georgia Encyclopedia: Warren Akin Candler (1857-1941)

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   Published on: 9/2/2004   Last Visited: 7/29/2005

   Warren Akin Candler was the tenth of eleven children born to Samuel Candler, a prosperous Villa Rica merchant and planter, and his wife, Martha Bernetta Beall.
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   Reared in a devout atmosphere, Candler attended Emory College in Oxford, Georgia, from 1874 to 1877. There he discovered his religious vocation and a considerable talent for preaching that would make the Southern Methodist Church the center of his life. After he left Emory he soon married Sarah Antoinette "Nettie" Curtright. The couple had five children, three of whom lived to adulthood.
   
   As a young minister, Candler served several churches in northwest Georgia. In 1882, along with George Foster Pierce, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Lucius Holsey, bishop of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, and others, Candler helped found Paine Institute (later Paine College) in Augusta.
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   As a longtime member of Paine's board of trustees, Candler supported the hiring of African Americans to teach, thus creating a racially integrated faculty for the school.
   
   From 1886 to 1888, as assistant editor of the Nashville, Tennessee, Christian Advocate, he supported some of the goals of the evangelical Holiness Association, although he feared that the association might also be divisive.
   
   In his next assignment, as president of Emory College (where students nicknamed him "Shorty"), Candler advanced firmly conservative views. In the decade from 1888 to 1898 he phased out technological training and implemented a liberal arts curriculum. He also improved the school's finances and increased the size of the faculty. Made a bishop in 1898, he then concerned himself with such denominational affairs as missionary enterprises.

2. 2. New Georgia Encyclopedia: Warren Akin Candler (1857-1941)

   www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/29/2004   Last Visited: 7/19/2005

   Warren Akin Candler was the tenth of eleven children born to Samuel Candler, a prosperous Villa Rica merchant and planter, and his wife, Martha Bernetta Beall.
   ...
   Reared in a devout atmosphere, Candler attended Emory College in Oxford, Georgia, from 1874 to 1877. There he discovered his religious vocation and a considerable talent for preaching that would make the Southern Methodist Church the center of his life. After he left Emory he soon married Sarah Antoinette "Nettie" Curtright. The couple had five children, three of whom lived to adulthood.
   
   As a young minister, Candler served several churches in northwest Georgia. In 1882, along with George Foster Pierce, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Lucius Holsey, bishop of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, and others, Candler helped found Paine Institute (later Paine College) in Augusta.
   ...
   As a longtime member of Paine's board of trustees, Candler supported the hiring of African Americans to teach, thus creating a racially integrated faculty for the school.
   
   From 1886 to 1888, as assistant editor of the Nashville, Tennessee, Christian Advocate, he supported some of the goals of the evangelical Holiness Association, although he feared that the association might also be divisive.
   
   In his next assignment, as president of Emory College (where students nicknamed him "Shorty"), Candler advanced firmly conservative views. In the decade from 1888 to 1898 he phased out technological training and implemented a liberal arts curriculum. He also improved the school's finances and increased the size of the faculty. Made a bishop in 1898, he then concerned himself with such denominational affairs as missionary enterprises.