Career
Claiborne was a prominent guard for the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee:The University of the South, a small Episcopal school in the mountains of Tennessee. Claiborne was blind in one eye, and used his discolored eye for purposes of intimidation on the field At Sewanee Claiborne studied theology.
He was called the "apostle of the mountain folk" for his work among Tennessee mountain people.
He founded the Saint Andrew"s School for Mountain Boys, refounded Saint Mary"s School, and established Emerald-Hogston Hospital. Claiborne wrote a book titled Boy in the Mountains.
