Andrew A. Lipscomb
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| Born | September 5, 1816 Georgetown, Washington, D.C. |
| Died | November 23, 1890 (aged 74) Athens, Georgia |
Andrew Adgate Lipscomb (September 5, 1816 – November 23, 1890) was an American clergyman and educator.
Lipscomb was born in
From 1860 until his resignation in 1874, Lipscomb served as the Chancellor of the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens. Lipscomb was the first leader of UGA to have the title Chancellor instead of President.
His tenure included a multi-year period (fall of 1863 through January 1866) during which the University was closed due to the American Civil War. Also, for the year preceding Lipscomb's Chancellorship (1859), the University had no presiding official (neither President nor Chancellor) between the time of President Church's resignation and Chancellor Lipscomb's start as the University underwent a comprehensive reorganization. His administration oversaw the construction of the library (currently the north half of the Holmes-Hunter Academic Building) in 1862 and Moore College in 1874.
The offspring of Lipscomb and his first wife, Henrietta Blanche Richardson, also contributed to the University. Their son, Francis Adgate Lipscomb, was a faculty member of the English department. Their grandson, Judge Thomas F. Green, served as a law professor at UGA and as a member of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. Their great-grandson, Thomas F. Green Jr., also served as a faculty member of the Law School.
Lipscomb Hall, a UGA dormitory, is named in the former chancellor's honor.
After Lipscomb's academic career, he wrote Studies in the Forty Days between Christ's Resurrection and Ascension (1885) and Studies Supplementary to the Studies in the Forty Days between Christ's Resurrection and Ascension (1886). He died in 1890 in Athens and was buried in Oconee Hill Cemetery in the same city.
References
- ^ Lipscomb, Lan. "Andrew A. Lipscombe: A Preacher, Teacher, and Man of Letters in Alabama, 1842-1860". The Alabama Review: A Quarterly Journal of Alabama History. 59 (1). Alabama Historical Association: 2–43.
- ^ "If the devotees of this unholy faith have so rapidly increased within a few years to number TWO MILLIONS, how long will it take them to rival and exceed the American Protestants?", qtd. in Lipscomb 8-9.
- ^ Lipscomb 13.
- Reed, Thomas Walter. History of the University of Georgia by Thomas Walter Reed; Frontmatter and Chapter I: The Beginnings of the University. Athens: University of Georgia, ca. 1949.
- From Ahmedunggar to Lavonia Presidents at the University of Georgia 1785-1997. Archived 2006-08-31 at the Wayback Machine University of Georgia Libraries, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
- History of Huntingdon College.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.)
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