Josiah Thomas Mangum

Background

Mangum, Josiah Thomas was born on April 13, 1876 in Greenville, Alabama, United States. Son of Theophilus Fields and Julia Frances (Perkins) Mangum.

Education

Student Southern University, Greensboro, Alabama, 1888-1889. Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama, 1892-1896. Studied theology, Vanderbilt University, 1909-1910.

Career

Hooper. Ordained ministry Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1901. Pastor Greenville, 1901, Eufaula, 1902, Jackson, 1903, Montgomery, 1904-1905, Tallassee, 1906-1909, Waynesville, North Carolina, since 1922. Accompanied Bishop Walter R. Lambuth, as secretary, to The Congo, Belge, Africa, 1913-1914, and assisted in establishment of the first mission of Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in that country.

Captain, chaplain 2d Regiment, Alabama National Guard, 1905-1909.

General secretary Army Young Men's Christian Association, Camp Greene, North Carolina, 1918. Trustee Alabama Woman’s College, 1906-1914.

Trustee Rutherford (North Carolina) College, Children’s Home, Junalusk Summer School.

Achievements

• Josiah Thomas Mangum has been listed as a noteworthy clergyman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Sigma Nu.; Mason ( Knights Templar, Shriner).

Connections

Married Edith Hooper, of Selma, Alabama, April.

Father:

Theophilus Fields Mangum

Mother:

Julia Frances (Perkins) Mangum

Spouse:

Edith Hooper