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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Oscar P. Fitzgerald |
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Santa Rosa, California , United States |
| Email | None |
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August 24, 1829 |
| Died |
August 04, 1911
(82 years) |
| Contributor | BrentinCO |
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| Info | Oscar Penn Fitzgerald
Clergyman and educator, born in Caswell County, N. C., Aug. 24, 1829. He was educated in the common schools of North Carolina and as a young man worked in a printing office in Virginia. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Georgia, in 1853, and in 1855 became a missionary among the California miners. He was editor while in California of the Pacific Methodist and the Christian Spectator, published in San Francisco; and he was superintendent of public instruction for the state of California, 1867-71. By virtue of this office he was editor of the California. School Journal. Under his administration as superintendent of public instruction the state university was established. In 1872 he became president of the Pacific Methodist College at Santa Rosa, Cal., and in 1878 he was elected editor of the Nashville Christian Advocate. In 1868 the Southern University at Greensborough, Ala., conferred on him the degree of doctor of divinity, and since 1890 he has been a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He has been a voluminous writer, and in addition to his editorial work has published a number of volumes, including California Sketches; Christian Growth; Glimpses of Truth; Life of McFerrin; Dr. Summers; A Life Study; Centenary Cameos; Bible Nights; Eminent Methodists; The Whetstone; The Epworth Book; Judge Longstreet; The Day and the World; Sunset Views, and Upper Room Meditations.
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