| John Cowper Granbery | |||||||||
| Birth Date: | December 5, 1829 | ||||||||
| Birth Place: | Norfolk, Virginia | ||||||||
| Education: | Randolph-Macon College | ||||||||
| Occupation: | Clergyman, university professor | ||||||||
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| Children: | 9 | ||||||||
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John Cowper Granbery (1829–1907) was an American Confederate chaplain and bishop of the Southern Methodist Episcopal church.
John Cowper Granbery was born on December 5, 1829, in Norfolk, Virginia.[1] He graduated from Randolph-Macon College in 1848.[1]
Granbery entered the Methodist ministry and served as assistant preacher and missioner in Washington, Richmond, and Petersburg.[1] He was a chaplain on the campus of the University of Virginia from 1859 to 1861.[2] During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, Granberry served as a chaplain in the Confederate States Army.[1] [3]
Granberry was a professor of moral philosophy and practical theology in Vanderbilt University from 1875 to 1882.[1] [4] He was elected Bishop in the Southern Methodist church in 1882.[1]
Granberry married Jenny Massie in 1858. They had a child.[2] He married his second wife, Ella Winston, in 1882, and they had eight children.[2]
Granbery died on April 1, 1907, in Ashland, Virginia.[1] [2]