Background
Bose, Horace Mellard Du was born on November 7, 1858 in Choctaw Company, Alabama, United States. Son of Hezekiah and Amanda (Hawkins) D.
Bose, Horace Mellard Du was born on November 7, 1858 in Choctaw Company, Alabama, United States. Son of Hezekiah and Amanda (Hawkins) D.
Educated Waynesboro (Mississippi) Academy. Studied languages and classics under tutors. Doctor of Divinity, Emory and Henry College, 1892.
Ordained, 1879; admitted into Mississippi Conference, 1877-1880. Pastor Galveston, Texas, 1881-1882, Huntsville, Texas, 1883-1884, Houston, 1885-1886, Tyler, Texas, 1887-1888, Los Angeles, 1889-1890. Editor Pacific Methodist Advocate, San Francisco, 1890-1894.
Pastor Tyler, Texas, 1895-1896, Jackson, Mississippi, 1897-1898.
Secretary Epworth League and editor Epworth Era, 1898-1910. Pastor Saint John's Church, Augusta, Georgia, 1910-1911, First Church, Atlanta, 1911-1915.
Book editor Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and editor Methodist Quarterly Review, Nashville, 1915-1918. Elected bishop, May 1918, and stationed at Berkeley, California Delaware 5 General Conferences.
Member Ecumenical Conference, 1901.
Member World South.S. Convention. Fraternal delegate from Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to General Conference of Methodist Church of Canada. Delegate 4th Ecumenical Conference, Toronto, 1911.
Executive chairman Anti-Saloon League of Georgia, 1913-1915.
Commissioner for Ecumenical Methodist Conference, held in London, 1921. Member of commission appointed 1916, for unification of Methodist churches
North and South. Has done occasional work in American archæology, studying the habitats of the Amerinds or prehistoric races in Mexico and Western America.
Now collaborating with Professor Sellin of University of Berlin in uncovering of site of Shechem, in Palestine. Author: The Symbol of Methodism, 1907.
Francis Asbury, a Biographical Study, 1909. Life of Bishop Joshua Soule, 1910.
History of Methodism, 1916.
Consciousness of Jesus, 1917. The Bible and the Ages, 1930. Through Two Generations, 1936.
Home: Nashville, Tennessee
Member Ecumenical Conference, 1901. Member World South.S. Convention. Member of commission appointed 1916, for unification of Methodist churches
North and South.
Has done occasional work in American archæology, studying the habitats of the Amerinds or prehistoric races in Mexico and Western America.
Married Rosa Chaney, December 6, 1882. Married second, Mistress.