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Tolbert Fanning, the son of William and Nancy (Bromley) Fanning, Virginians of English descent. When he was about six years old his parents moved to Lauderdale County, Alabama, and much of his youth was spent in the cotton fields.
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Tolbert Fanning (1810-1874) was a Restoration Movement preacher and writer born in Cannon County, Tennessee. His conservative theology within that movement, often expressed in the pages of Fanning's publication, the Gospel Advocate, inspired others such as David Lipscomb, leading to the 1906 identification of the Church of Christ as a distinct religious body, 33 years after Fanning's death. Fanning's major legacy within the Restoration Movement lay with his advocacy of education. He was an important mentor to David Lipscomb and thought by many to be the source of many his protege's more pacifist views. Lipscomb University has a dormitory named in honour of him.
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Tolbert Fanning, the son of William and Nancy (Bromley) Fanning, Virginians of English descent. When he was about six years old his parents moved to Lauderdale County, Alabama, and much of his youth was spent in the cotton fields.
His educational advantages were limited, for the family was large and not well-to-do; but he was eager for knowledge and exerted himself in every possible way to obtain it. In 1832 he was able to enter the University of Nashville from which he graduated in 1835.
In 1833 he made an extensive preaching tour with Alexander Campbell, and another in 1836, during which they visited Ohio, New York, Canada, and New England. With Mrs. Fanning, who was a teacher, he opened a boarding and day school for girls at Franklin, Tennessee, which in January 1840 they moved to “Elm Crag, ” a farm about five miles from Nashville. Interested in the advancement of agriculture, he imported some of the best breeds of cattle, sheep, hogs, and horses. He was also a prominent promoter of the Tennessee Agricultural Society, and from 1840 to June 1844 was one of the editors of the Agriculturist and Journal of the Slate and County Societies, “Devoted to the Improvement of the Soil and Mind. ”
The Fannings then bought Minerva College, a nearby school for girls, and conducted it under the name of Hope Institute until Tolbert Fanning’s death. In 1850, with Charles Foster, he started the Naturalist, which the following year was merged with the Southern Agriculturist. In connection with his other activities, he preached regularly and was a successful editor of religious publications. In 1844 he began the Christian Review which some years later became the Christian Magazine. From 1854 until its suspension prior to the war, and from 1866 to 1868 he was associated with William and then David Lipscomb in the editorship of the Gospel Advocate, a widely circulated paper which had much influence among the Disciples. After 1872 he published the Religious Historian. Some years subsequent to his death, which occurred after a “violent illness” of four days, Mrs. Fanning deeded Hope Institute to trustees who, according to her wish, established the Fanning Orphan School, which has perpetuated her husband’s interest in the training of the young down to the present time.
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With Benjamin Franklin he belonged to the conservative group of Disciples who opposed organized cooperation.
He was a prominent promoter of the Tennessee Agricultural Society, and from 1840 to June 1844 was one of the editors of the Agriculturist and Journal of the Slate and County Societies, “Devoted to the Improvement of the Soil and Mind. ”
With Benjamin Franklin he belonged to the conservative group of Disciples who opposed organized cooperation.
On December 25, 1836, he married Charlotte Fall of Nashville, a former wife, Sarah Shreeve of Nicholasville, Kentucky, having died shortly after their marriage.