In 1860 he was 10 and lived with his parents and siblings in Petersburg, Virginia. ®108 He was the youngest of ten children. He was an instructor at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. In 1902 he was consecrated the 4th Episcopal Bishop of Alabama. ®134 ®135
From Marquis Who's Who: Charles Minnigerode Beckwith
Occupation: Bishop
Born: Prince George County, Virginia on 3 June 3 1851
Son of Dr. Thomas Stanley and Agnes (Ruffin) B.
Education: Bachelor of Arts, University of Georgia, 1873; studied at the Berkeley Divinity School; Doctor of Divinity, University of the South, 1902; S.T.D., Berkeley Divity School, 1903
Married Lucy Cocke, 1888 (who died in 1891); 1 son, Edmund Ruffin
Married 2d, Mary Belle Cameron on 11 May 11 1897.
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of the South from 1874 to 1876; Master of Grammar Schools, University of the South, 1876 to 1879; Deacon, 1881, Priest, 1882, P.E Ch.;
Assistant Rector, St. Luke’s Cathedral, Atlanta, Georgia, 1880 to 1886; Rector, Houston, Texas, 1886- to 1892; General Missionary Diocese of Texas, 1892- to 1895; Rector, Galveston, Texas, 1895 to 1901; Consecrated as Bishop of Alabama, 1902. Author: The Trinity Course of Church Instruction, 1898; The Teacher’s Companion to the Trinity Course, 1901; Rightly Instructed in God’s Holy Word, 1902.
Home: Montgomery, Alabama.
Died 18 Apr 1928.