City: Nashville
HAMILL, Howard M., born Lowndesboro, Ala.; son of Edward J. HAMILL; father, minister of the gospel; Scotch-Irish descent; educated at Auburn, Ala., East Alabama College, now Alabama Polytechnic Institute; graduated from same in 1868; M.A. degree in 1870; received degree D.D. from Illinois College in 1895; was minister of the gospel and Sunday School specialist in early life; married Ada TURMAN in 1885; member I. O. O. F., Masons, Blue Lodge Chapter and Commandery, Press Club and Cheatham Bivouac, all of Nashville, Tenn.; Democrat; served in Finnegan’s Florida Brigade last year of civil war; was for ten years Superintendent of Schools, President Mission State Teachers’ Association; author of several books, and Sunday School specialist for more than twenty years; is now Chairman of the Committee on Education of International Sunday School Association; Special Commissioner from World’s Sunday School Association to the Orient and to Europe; member Southern Methodist Church.
Source: Who’s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.
