Elijah Embree Hoss

Background

Hoss, Elijah Embree was born on April 14, 1849 in Washington Company, Tennessee, United States. Son of Henry and Anna M. (Sevier) Hoss.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Emory and Henry College, Virginia, 1869 (Doctor of Divinity, 1885. Doctor of Laws, 1890. Doctor of Laws, Emory College, Georgia, 1898, Ohio Wesleyan, 1906).

Career

Ordained Methodist Episcopal Church, South, ministry, 1870. Pastor Knoxville, Tennessee, 1870-1872, San Francisco, 1872-1874, Asheville, North Carolina, 1875. President and professor Martha Washington College, Abingdon, Virginia, 1876-1881.

Vice-president and later president Emory and Henry College, 1881-1885.

Professor ecclesiastical history, Vanderbilt University, 1885-1890. Editor Nashville (Tennessee) Christian Advocate, 1890-1902.

Bishop Methodist Episcopal Church, South, May since 1902.

Achievements

• Elijah Embree Hoss has been listed as a noteworthy bishop by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Abbie Clark, November 19, 1872.

Father:

Henry Hoss

Mother:

Anna M. (Sevier) Hoss

Spouse:

Abbie Clark