City: Cleveland
SULLINS, David, educator and minister of the Gospel; born McMinn Co., Tenn., July 28, 1827; son of Nathan and Rebecca (Mitchell) SULLINS; Scotch-Irish descent; father’s occupation, farmer; educated Forest Hill Academy and Emory & Henry College, A.B., A.M. and D.D.; married Annie Rebecca BLAIR May 3, 1855; member of Masons and Odd Fellows; chaplain 19th Tenn. Regiment, C. S. A., Major, Quartermaster in Confederate States army; converted Sept.29, 1839, joined Holston conference M. E. church, South, 1850; joined Confederate army in 1861; founded Sullins College, Bristol, Tenn., 1870; elected president of Emory & Henry College 1880, elected president Centenary Female College, Cleveland 1885; now president emeritus Centenary Female College, Cleveland, Tenn.; member M. E. church, South.
