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MANLY


MANLY


Murray, daughter of Zebulon and Abigail (Mur- ray) Kudulph. He was president of the State University of Alabama, 1837-55, and pastor of the Went worth Street church, Charleston. 1855- 69. In 1859 he returned to Alabama and was engaged in state missionary work till Dec. 30, 1860, when he became pastor at Montgomery. He was an organizer of the Southern Baptist convention of 1845, and of the Southern Baptist Theological seminary, Greenville, S.C., in 1859. He published several sermons and with his son Basil prepared The Baptist Psalmody (ISoQ). He died in Greenville, S.C., Dec. 21, 1868.

MANLY, Basil, educator, was born in Edge- field district, S.C, Dec. 19, 1825; son of Basil and Sarah Murray (Rudulph) Manly. He attended a preparatory school at Charleston, S.C.; was graduated from the State University of Alabama

in 1843; studied at the Newton Theo- logical Institution, 1844-45, and at Princeton Theolog- ical seminary, 1845- 47; was licensed to preach in 1844 and was ordained to the Baptist ministry at Tuscaloosa, Ala. , Jan. 30, 1848. He was pastor of Baptist churches in Provi-


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1850-54; founded the Richmond Female institute, and was its president, 1854-59; was professor of biblical introduction and Old Testament interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological seminary, Greenville, S.C, 1859-71, and during the civil war while the semi- nary was suspended he preached to several churches in the neighborhood. He was twice married: to Mrs. Charlotte (Whitfield) Smith, in 1852; to Harriet Summers Hair in 1869. Of the children of his first wife, George Whitfield be- came professor of Latin in Denison university, Ohio, and in Wake Forest college, N.C.; William Gwathmey, professor of Greek in the University of Missouri and Louise (q.v.), became a teacher. Of the children of the second wife, Clarence became a surgeon in the U.S. navy. Dr. Manly was president of Georgetown college, Ky., 1871- 79, and was professor of biblical introduction and Old Testament interpretation, at the South- ern Baptist Theological seminary which had been moved in 1877 from Greenville, S.C, to Louis- ville, Ky., 1879-912. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by the University of Ala- bama and by Wake Forest college, N.C, in 1859.


and that of LL.D. by the Agricultural college at Auburn, Ala., in 1874. He was the first editor of Kind Word^, and is the author of: A Call to the Ministry (1867); The Bible DoctHne of Inspi- ration and several hymn and music books. He died in Louisville, Ky., Jan. 30, 1892.

MANLY, Charles, governor of North Carolina, was born in Pittsboro, N.C, May 13, 1795; son of Basil and Elizabeth (Maultsby) Manly. He at- tended Pittsboro academy and was graduated with honors from the University of North Caro- lina, A.B., 1814, A.M., 1817. He was engaged by John Haywood as private tutor for his sons in 1814; was admitted to the bar in 1816, and prac- tised in Chatham county until 1823, when he was appointed reading clerk of the house of commons and clerk to the commission at Wash- ington to examine the claims of American citizens for property taken by the British during the war of 1812. He was clerk of the house of commons, 1830-48; was governor of North Caro- lina, 1849-51, and was renominated in 1850 but was defeated in the election. He was treasurer of the University of North Carolina, 1842-68, and placed the institution in a position of pros- perity. His son, Capt. Basil C Manly, served throughout the civil war in Ramseur's battery with distinguished honor, notably at Williams- burg and Antietam. Governor Manly died at Raleigh, N.C, May 1, 1871.

MANLY, Charles, educator, was born in Charleston, S.C, May 28, 1837; son of Basil and Sarah Murray (Rudulph) Manly and grandson of Basil and Elizabeth (Maultsby) Manly and of Zebulon and Abigail (Murray) Rudulph and great grandson of Thomas and Mary (Ford) Manly and of Jacob and Frances (Jacob) Rudulph. His pa- ternal great grandfather emigrated from Ireland early in the eighteenth century and settled in Maryland as did Michael Johannes Rudulph, who came from the neighborhood of the Prussian Rhine. Charles studied under Richard Furman at Tuscaloosa, Ala., and was graduated from the University of Alabama, A.B., 1855, A.M., 1859. He was licensed to preach by the Tuscaloosa Baptist church in 1855; was graduated from the Princeton Theological seminary in 1859, and was ordained to the ministry in 1859. He was pastor of churches at Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1859-71; Mur- freesboro, Tenn., 1871-73; Staunton, Va., 1873- 80, and at Greenville, 1880-81, Belton, 1882-98, Brushy Creek, 1882-86, Rocky Creek, 1882-86, and Seneca, S.C, 1886-98, and became pastor at Lexington, Mo., in 1898. He was president of Alabama Central Female college at Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1862-64, and 1869-71; president of Union university, Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1871-73; of Furman university. Greenville, S.C, 1881-97; was a teacher in the Patrick Military institute