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Francis Asbury Mood was born on 23 Jun 1830, at Charleston, South Carolina. He was the son of John Mood and Catherine McFarlane. His family name was originally Muth; his paternal ancestor came to Philadelphia from Württemberg about 1750.
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Francis Asbury Mood was born on 23 Jun 1830, at Charleston, South Carolina. He was the son of John Mood and Catherine McFarlane. His family name was originally Muth; his paternal ancestor came to Philadelphia from Württemberg about 1750.
Mood pursued a classical course at the College of Charleston where he was graduated with honor in 1850. He received the master's degree two years later.
During part of his college course, Mood conducted a school in Charleston for the children of free negroes. His parents were warmly interested in the work of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and he gladly prepared himself to take up the duties of its ministry as his father had done, and as his two elder brothers were already doing, and, licensed to enter the itinerant ministry, began serving Cypress Circuit in the South Carolina Conference in 1850. He had other circuits in his charge later, and also held pastorates at Columbia, Greenville, and elsewhere. When the Civil War began he supported the Confederacy, and President Davis appointed him in 1863 chaplain to the army hospitals in Charleston. In December 1865, with a few associates, he began to publish a weekly newspaper, the Record, but the unsettled condition of the South made it impossible to continue publication. In the same period, he was instrumental in defending his branch of the church: a Northern Methodist clergyman had taken possession of parish property in Charleston and refused to relinquish it, whereupon Mood appealed to President Johnson, who issued an order directing that the property be returned to its rightful owner. While pastor of Trinity Church, Charleston, Mood was offered the presidency of Soule University at Chappell Hill, Texas, and in November 1868, he decided to accept. He had long been interested in educational work, and his address, A Theory of Education, shows his firm grasp of principles. He extinguished the debt at Soule and attracted students. Next, drawing plans for the establishment of a college which might count upon the support of the entire body of Texan Methodism, he persuaded the church assemblies to accede to the project, thus fostering one college instead of starving several. The new institution opened its doors at Georgetown, Texas, in the autumn of 1873. The Regent worked hard to gain support for Southwestern, but also he found time to teach the courses in philosophy. Resources at his command were but few at first, and he struggled against any relaxation of standards. Surrounded by utilitarianism, he nevertheless continued to encourage students to cultivate the study of the classical languages as the best means of obtaining a liberal education. When he retired from the regency the college was on a firm footing. He went to London in 1881 as a delegate to the Ecumenical Methodist Conference. Mood died, at Waco, Texas.
Francis Asbury Mood was the head of Southwestern University, as it is called today, with the title of regent. Mood wrote one historical work, Methodism in Charleston, South Carolina, and a considerable number of pamphlets and contributions to the Charleston Courier and to the religious press. Some of these articles record impressions of his travels in Europe in 1857 and again in 1865.
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Mood was married to Sue Logan in 1858, who survived him with nine children.
11 January 1792 - 1 March 1864
22 July 1798 - 31 January 1857
4 March 1825 - 31 August 1892
28 September 1827 - 11 January 1897
19 February 1819 - 2 May 1897
12 August 1822 - 18 April 1896
31 August 1832 - 29 June 1897
5 August 1843 - 13 November 1916
26 April 1867 - 3 January 1948
24 December 1859 - 27 September 1862
2 August 1864 - 15 April 1901
15 November 1875 - 19 March 1936
29 June 1869 - 13 November 1918
