Alexander Little Page Green
| Alexander Little Page Green | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 26, 1806 Sevier County, Tennessee |
| Died |
July 15, 1874 Davidson County, Tennessee |
Resting place | Mount Olivet Cemetery |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Preacher |
| Religion | Methodist Episcopal Church, South |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Ann Elliston |
| Children |
Frank Waters Green William Martin Green Mary Anna Green Hunter |
| Parent(s) |
George Green Judith Spillman |
Alexander Little Page Green (a.k.a. "A.L.P. Green") (1806-1874) was an American Methodist preacher.
Biography
Early life
Alexander Little Page Green was born on June 26, 1806 in Sevier County, Tennessee.[1][2][3] His father was George Green and his mother, Judith Spillman.[1] He grew up in Alabama.[1]
Career
He joined the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in Tennessee in 1824, at the age of seventeen.[1] He became an ordained deacon in 1826 and an elder in 1828.[1] He was elected to the General conference in 1831 and re-elected until he died.[1] He was also one of the commissioners overseeing the lawsuit between the Southern and Northern Methodist Churches.[1] He served as the first minister of McKendree United Methodist Church in Nashville, Tennessee, until John Berry McFerrin (1807-1887) took over.[1] He also founded the Southern Methodist Publishing House.[1]
He was also one of the founders of Vanderbilt University in Nashville.[2][4] Indeed, as early as 1859, he was the President of the Board of Trustees of the Central University, its precursor before it received a donation from Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877).[5] Later, from 1872 to 1875, he served as Treasurer of its Board of Trust.[2] He also sat on the Board of Trustees of the Tennessee Blind School.[3][6] Additionally, throughout his ministry, he carried medical pills and powders for sick patients, even though he did not have a doctor's license.[7]
He was a slaveowner.[8] During the American Civil War of 1861 to 1865, he supported the Confederate States Army.[9]
Personal life
He married Mary Ann Elliston (1817-1881), the sister of William Hiter Elliston (1819-1852), who served in the Mexican–American War of 1846-1848.[1][10] They had two sons and one daughter:
- Captain Frank Waters Green (1836-1904).[11]
- William Martin Green (1838-1926).[12]
- Mary Anna Green Hunter (1841-1918).[13]
Death
He died on July 15, 1874 in Davidson County, Tennessee.[1] He was buried in the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville, where there is a monument in his honor.[1][14]
Legacy
- His portrait hangs in the Board of Trust lounge of Kirkland Hall, the administrative building of Vanderbilt University.[2]
- The Alex Green Elementary School, located in Whites Creek, Tennessee North of Nashville, is named in his honor.[3][4]
- His granddaughter, Julia McClung Green (1873-1961), was an educator; the Julia Green Elementary School in Nashville is named in her honor.[4]
Secondary source
- William M. Green (ed.), Thomas Osgood Summers (ed.), Life and Papers of A.L.P. Green, Southern Methodist publishing house, 1877.[15]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 FindAGrave
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Tennessee Portrait Project
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Alex Green Elementary School
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Julia Green Elementary School
- ↑ Nashville Monthly Record of Medical and Physical Science, 1859, p. 511
- ↑ Nashville Business Directory, 1860, p. 48
- ↑ Walter Brownlow Posey, The development of Methodism in the old Southwest, 1783-1824, Porcupine Press, 1933, p. 40
- ↑ Nashville City Cemetery
- ↑ Mississippi Quarterly, Starville, Mississippi: College of Arts and Sciences of Mississippi State University, Volume 24, Issues 1-4, p. 119
- ↑ Tennessee Portrait Project: William Hiter Elliston
- ↑ FindAGrave: Captain Frank Waters Green
- ↑ FindAGrave: William Martin Green
- ↑ FindAGrave: Mary Anna Green Hunter
- ↑ James A. Hoobler, Sarah Hunter Marks, Nashville:: From the Collection of Carl and Otto Giers, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2000, p. 90
- ↑ HathiTrust