Atticus Greene Haygood

He was born in Watkinsville, Ga. and graduated at Emory College (Georgia) in 1859. He entered the ministry where he edited the Sunday-school publications of the Southern branch of the church. He edited the Wesleyan Christian Advocate (1878–82), served as president of Emory (1876–1884),[1] and was a General Agent of the Slater Fund, which assisted educational institutions for African Americans following Reconstruction.

Haygood declined an election as Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1882; but he accepted another election in 1890. Atticus Greene Haygood died in January 1896.

His works include:

• Our children (1876)
• Our Brother in Black (1881)
• Speeches and Sermons (1884)
• Pleas for Progress (1889)
• Jackknife and Brambles (1893)
• The Monk and the Prince (1895)

Haygood Hall, a dormitory at Oxford College of Emory University, is named for him. In addition, the neighboring United Methodist Church, Haygood Memorial of Atlanta, carries Bishop A. G. Haygood's name.

• List of bishops of the United Methodist Church

Mann, Harold W. (1965). Atticus Greene Haygood : Methodist bishop, editor, and educator. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820335438. Retrieved February 20, 2018.

Wikisource has the text of a 1892 Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography article about Atticus Greene Haygood.

• Works by Atticus Greene Haygood at Project Gutenberg
• Emory History: President Haygood at Archive.org
• Atticus Greene Haygood at Find a Grave
• Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Atticus G. Haygood family papers, 1861-1952
• Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Haygood family genealogical collection