Background
Holland Nimmons McTyeire was born on July 28, 1824, in Barnwell District, South Carolina, United States, United States. He was the son of John and Elizabeth Amanda (Nimmons) McTyeire.
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In 1844 McTyeire graduated from Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, remaining there one year more as a tutor.
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Holland Nimmons McTyeire was born on July 28, 1824, in Barnwell District, South Carolina, United States, United States. He was the son of John and Elizabeth Amanda (Nimmons) McTyeire.
When McTyeire was fourteen years of age he began preparation for college at Cokesbury Academy, Abbeville County, South Carolina, and in 1844 he graduated from Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, remaining there one year more as a tutor.
Admitted to the Virginia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, on trial in November 1845, Holland McTyeire was appointed pastor of the church at Williamsburg, Virginia, the seat of William and Mary College. So remarkable was his early intellectual maturity that at twenty-three he was appointed to the St. Francis Street Church, Mobile, Alabama, and as a member of the Alabama Conference was ordained deacon January 26, 1848.
On December 26, 1849, now a member of the Louisiana Conference, he was ordained. He had a large share in pioneering the work of the Methodist Church in New Orleans, and while in charge of a parish there, he also preached regularly to a large negro congregation. At the General Conference of 1858, he was elected editor of the Christian Advocate, the official periodical of the Methodist Church, South, published at Nashville, Tennessee.
In this capacity, he continued until 1862, when the publication of the Advocate was suspended, the Methodist Publishing House being used at that time as an arsenal and hospital by the Federal army. Transferred to Alabama, he now took charge of the church in Montgomery, with which he remained connected until the General Conference of 1866.
In this body, he was not only a member but was probably the mastermind. Conditions at this time offered an opportunity for reconstructing the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and McTyeire was the leader of progressive reforms, winning for himself the name of "fighting elder." The principal reform which he advocated was known as "lay representation." Hitherto the controlling bodies of American Methodism had been exclusively clerical.
The measure which McTyeire sponsored provided for laymen in the annual conferences and especially for lay delegates in the General Conferences equal in number to the clerical delegates. At this Conference, McTyeire was elected bishop, an office in which he served with the statesman-like ability for twenty-three years. It was also decided that in case the negro membership of the Church desired to be organized into an independent body, the bishops should cooperate in providing for such an organization.
While he was busy with the plans for establishing such an institution under the auspices of his Church, he was the guest of the elder Cornelius Vanderbilt and discussed the enterprise with him. Vanderbilt was so favorably impressed with the plan and with McTyeire's administrative ability that he at once gave him a check for $500, 000, and later increased the gift to a million dollars. He insisted that Bishop McTyeire be president of the board of trustees and vested with full veto power.
During the first fifteen years of the history of the university, therefore, McTyeire had a determining voice in its affairs. He spent his last days in a home especially provided for him on the campus, and there died.
McTyeire was the author of books, including "Duties of Christian Masters" (1859). He became the chief authority on the denomination's government, publishing "A Catechism on Church Government" (1869) and "A Manual of Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South" (1870). His most noteworthy book was "A History of Methodism" (1884), written to commemorate the centennial of American Methodism. While it covered primarily the period prior to the division of the church in 1844, it was widely recognized as fair and evenhanded treatment.
Holland McTyeire and his family members were devout Methodists.
A staunch secessionist, McTyeire served as a propagandist for the war effort.
McTyeire supported slavery but urged the compassionate treatment of slaves within the law.
Holland married Amelia Townsend in Mobile, Alabama, on November 9, 1847. They had eight children.