City: Memphis
GAILOR, Thomas Frank, P. E. bishop, of the diocese of Tenn.; born Jackson, Miss., Sept. 17, 1856; son of Major Frank M. and Charlotte (Moffett) GAILOR; Scotch-Irish descent; his father was born Western New York, Nov. 17, 1833, moved to Mississippi when a boy and became editor of a paper in Jackson in 1854, accepted a position on the Memphis Avalanche in 1857, and enlisted in the Confederate service under Gen. William Carroll; became captain and assistant quartermaster of the 7th regiment, and was promoted to rank of Major and quartermaster, Carroll’s brigade, Crittenden’s division; he was later made quartermaster of Wither’s division of Perryville, Oct. 8, 1862, while leading a successful charge of a regiment which he had rallied from disorder; Bishop GAILOR’s paternal grandparents were James and Charlotte (Langston) MOFFETT; graduated from Racine College, Wis., in 1876; General Theological Seminary, S. T. B., in 1879; S. T. D. Columbia, 1890; General Theological Seminary, 1893; D. D. Trinity College, 1892; University of the South, 1894; married Ellen DOUGLAS, daughter of G. W. CUNNINGHAM, Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 11, 1885; deacon, May, 1879; priest, 1880; rector Church of the Messiah, Pulaski, Tenn., 1879-82; elected professor of Ecclesiastical History, University of the South, in 1882; vice-chancellor same in 1890; declined Bishopric of Louisiana, in 1890; elected Bishop-Coadjutor of Tenn., in 1893 by unanimous vote, and accepted same; consecrated bishop July 25, 1893, and succeeded to bishopric of Tenn. on the death of Bishop QUINTARD, Feb., 1898; author; Manual of Devotion, The Apostolic Succession, The Divine Event of All Time, Things New and Old, The Trust of the Episcopate, The Puritan Reaction, the Master’s Word, and churches Act, Apostolic Order, Christianity and Education, The Episcopal Church and Other Religious Communions, The Fruitfulness of Sacrifice, The Communion of Saints.
