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It was currently reported in this city yesterday that Rev. A.L.P. Green, D.D., has received the appointment of
Brigadier General in the army of the Confederate States. We trust it is nothing more than a rumor. We hardly think the church could dispense with his eminent ability as a religious teacher.
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Green was one of the commissioners overseeing the lawsuit between the
Southern and Northern Methodist Churches. He was the founder of the Southern Methodist Publishing House, and the chairman of the Methodist Book Committee. He was instrumental in establishing the Southern Methodist Publishing House
761:"Captain Frank W. Green. Highly Esteemed and Prominent Citizen Passes Away. Useful Career Is Ended. Descendant of Distinguished Tennessee Family--Served the Confederacy During Civil War, and Had Been Wholesale Merchant"
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She was the daughter of
Captain Robert P. Hunter of the Confederate army. Her foster father, R. A. Young, was the founder of the West End Methodist Church, of which Mrs Kirkpatrick had been a member since
408:"Gone to His Rest.The Venerable A.L.P. Green, D.D., After Great Afflictions, Sinks into the Sleep of Death. Biographical Sketch of One of the Most Eminent Ministers in the Southern Methodist Church"
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And if it could, we are persuaded that there are a great many persons in the South, and in this State who would be infinitely more efficient in the field that Dr. Green could hope to be.
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His portrait hangs in the board of trust lounge of
Kirkland Hall, the administrative building of Vanderbilt University. Moreover, the Alex Green Elementary School, located in
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Green was a
Methodist preacher for 50 years and a presiding elder for 36 years. He served as the first minister of the Nashville Station Church after it was renamed
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Nashville in 1873. As early as 1859, he was the president of the board of trustees of the Central University, its precursor before it received a donation from
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Mary Anna Green Hunter, who married Confederate Captain Robert P. Hunter, followed by Methodist minister
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825:"Summons Comes to Col. T. D. Green. One of Best Known Men in Nashville Is Dead. Factor in City's Growth"
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441:"Early Silversmiths Left Marks on City. Names of Elliston, Calhoun Figure Big in Nashville History"
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The development of Methodism in the old Southwest, 1783-1824
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Laura Green, who married businessman Thomas Duncan Fite.
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Alexander Little Page Green was born in 1806 or 1807 in
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William Martin Green, who became a Methodist minister.
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Green, William M. (1877). Summers, Thomas O. (ed.).
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247:Personal life, death and legacy
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346:"A.L.P. Green 1806 - 1874"
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576:Daily Nashville Patriot
528:Nashville City Cemetery
470:Walter Brownlow Posey,
289:Whites Creek, Tennessee
223:Confederate States Army
219:Nashville Daily Patriot
857:"Mrs Mary Kirkpatrick"
830:The Nashville American
766:The Nashville American
108:Mary Anna Green Hunter
964:American slave owners
554:Mississippi Quarterly
282:Mount Olivet Cemetery
230:Vanderbilt University
142:Vanderbilt University
79:Mount Olivet Cemetery
35:Portrait of Green by
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276:Green suffered from
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106:William Martin Green
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