Background
Haygood, Atticus Green was born on November 19, 1839 in Watkinsville, Georgia, United States. Son of Green B. and Martha (Askew) Haygood.
Haygood, Atticus Green was born on November 19, 1839 in Watkinsville, Georgia, United States. Son of Green B. and Martha (Askew) Haygood.
Graduate Emory College, 1859.
Admitted to trial into Georgia Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church South, 1859. Served as chaplain in Confederate Army. Sunday School secretary Georgia Conference Methodist Episcopal Ch.s., 1870.
President Emory College, 1875-1884.
Edited Wesleyan Christian Advocate, 1878-1882. Elected bishop but declined to serve (1st in his church to reject this honor), 1882.
Became agent of John F. Slater Fund, established for education of Negroes, 1883. Bishop, Los Angeles, 1890-1893.
Advocated federal aid for Negro education, opposed leasing of convicts as common laborers.
Author: Our Children, 1877, Our Brother in Black, 1881, Sermons and Speeches, 1883. Pleas for Progress, 1889.
Married Mary Yarbrough, 1859.