Candler, Warren A(kin) 1857-1941

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CANDLER, Warren A(kin) 1857-1941

PERSONAL: Born August 23, 1857, near Villa Rica, GA; died of bronchial pneumonia, September 25, 1941, in Atlanta, GA; son of Samuel Charles (a farmer and merchant) and Martha (Beale; some sources cite maiden name as Beall) Candler; married Sarah Antoinette Curtright (some sources cite maiden name as Cartwright), November 21, 1877; children: Annie Florence, John Curtright, Warren Akin, Emory, Samuel Charles. Education: Emory College (now University), graduated (with honors), 1875.

CAREER: Minister of North Georgia Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, beginning c. 1875; Methodist Episcopal bishop, 1898-1934. Emory University, Atlanta, GA, president, 1888-98, chancellor, 1914-22. Ecumenical Methodist Conference, delegate, 1891; missionary in Cuba, beginning 1898, and Mexico, 1903-10; supervisor of missionaries in the Far East, including Korea. Vanderbilt University, served as member of board of trustees; Paine College, founding member of board of trustees, 1884-c. 1909.

AWARDS, HONORS: Candler School of Theology named in Candler's honor at Emory University; a college in Havana, Cuba, and a hospital in Savannah, GA, were also named for Candler.

WRITINGS:

The History of Sunday Schools, Phillips & Hunt (New York, NY), 1880.

Christus Auctor: A Manual of Christian Evidences, Barbee & Smith (Nashville, TN), 1900.

Great Revivals and the Great Republic, Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Nashville, TN), 1904.

Wesley and His Work; or, Methodism and Missions: A Volume of Addresses, Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Nashville, TN), 1912.

Practical Studies in the Fourth Gospel, two volumes, Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Nashville, TN), 1914.

The Kingdom of God's Dear Son, Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Nashville, TN), 1921.

Wit and Wisdom of Warren Akin Candler, edited by Elam Franklin Dempsey, Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Nashville, TN), 1922.

Life of Thomas Coke, Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Nashville, TN), 1923.

The Feast of the Family on the Birthday of the King, Cokesbury Press (Nashville, TN), 1923.

Current Comments on Timely Topics, Cokesbury Press (Nashville, TN), 1926.

The Christ and the Creed, Cokesbury Press (Nashville, TN), 1927.

Bishop Charles Butts Galloway: A Prince of Preachers and a Christian Statesman, Cokesbury Press (Nashville, TN), 1927.

Easter Meditations, Cokesbury Press (Nashville, TN), 1930.

Young J. Allen, "the Man Who Seeded China," Cokesbury Press (Nashville, TN), 1931.

Author of Georgia's Educational Work: What It Has Been, What It Should Be, and "Hammond's History" Corrected, Etc., Foote & Davies (Atlanta, GA). Assistant editor, Christian Advocate, beginning 1886. Some of Candler's writings have been published in Spanish.

Candler's papers are stored in Asa Griggs Candler Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.