Background
Dobbs, Hoyt Mcwhorter was born on November 16, 1878 in Antioch, Cherokee County, Alabama, United States. Son of Samuel Lewis and Laura (Clayton) Dobbs.
Dobbs, Hoyt Mcwhorter was born on November 16, 1878 in Antioch, Cherokee County, Alabama, United States. Son of Samuel Lewis and Laura (Clayton) Dobbs.
Student Verner Military Institute, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 1893-1895. Master of Arts, Southern University, Greensboro, Alabama, 1899, Doctor of Divinity, 1914. Bachelor of Divinity, Vanderbilt, 1904.
Doctor of Divinity, Emory, 1913.
Doctor of Laws, Birmingham-Southern College, 1922. Doctor of Letters conferred by Southern College, 1928.
South., 1901; ordained deacon, November 27, 1904, elder. November 22, 1908; pastor Mount Vernon Church, 1904-1906, Fountain Heights Church, 1907, Highlands Church, 1907-1909 (all of Birmingham, Alabama), Central Church, 1909-1913, Troost Avenue Church, 1913-1914 (both Kansas City, Missoury). First Church, Fort Worth, Texas, 1914-1916.
Dean School Theological and professor and lecturer on Christian Doctrine, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 1916-1920.
Pastor First Methodist Church, Anniston, Alabama, 1920-1922. Elected bishop May 16, 1922, and assigned to Brazil with official residence at Sao Paulo, 1922-1926.
Assigned to 13th Episcopal District, embracing states of Alabama and Florida, with official residence at Birmingham, Alabama, 1926-1930. Assigned to 12th Episcopal District, embracing states of Louisiana and Arkansas, with official residence at Shreveport, Louisiana, 1930-1934.
Assigned to 7th Episcopal District, embracing states of Louisiana and Mississippi, official residence at Shreveport.
Retired June 24, 1944.
Member General Board Christian Education Delaware to General Conference of Methodist Church, 1918, 22. Member Phi Beta Kappa. Phi Delta Theta.; Mason (33°, Knight of the Order of the Thistle, Kansas City.C.H., Red Cross of Constantine, Shriner).
Club: Lions.
Married Lessie Rush Jackson, November 14, 1906. Children: Hoyt M., Mary Elizabeth (deceased), Margaret Jackson.