City: Nashville
LAMBUTH, Walter Russell, clergyman; born Shanghai, China, November 10, 1854; English and Scotch descent; son of James W. and Mary Isabella (McClellan) LAMBUTH; father, missionary to China and Japan; paternal grandparents John R. and Nancy (Kirkpatrick) LAMBUTH; maternal grandparents William G. and Sarah Ann (Cleveland) McCLELLAN; married Daisy L. KELLEY, August 2, 1877; educated Emory & Henry College, Virginia; Cumberland University, Vanderbilt University; graduated from Emory & Henry College, M. A. degree, 1875; D.D., 1892; Vanderbilt University, M. D., 1877; Bellevue Hospital Medical College, M. D., 1882; Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, D.D., 1892; received degree Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London, 1909; member of Royal Geographical Society, London, National Geographical Society, Washington, D. C., Honorary Member of Nashville Academy of Medicine; Democrat; Missionary to China 1877-86; Missionary to Japan and Superintendent of Japan Mission 1886-91; elected Secretary of the Board of Missions of the M. E. Church, South, 1892-4-8-1902-06, by successive General Conferences; founded the Soochow Hospital in China, the Kwansei Cakuin College in Japan, the Methodist Training School, Nashville, Tenn.; one of six commissioners sent to Japan to unite the three Methodist churches; member of Executive Committee of Ecumenical Missionary Conference, New York, 1900, and Vice-Chairman Commission No. 2, World’s Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, 1910; Bishop of the M. E. Church, South, elected at the General Conference, 1910, Asheville, N. C.
Source: Who’s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.
