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DENNY, Collins<\/strong>, Bishop M. E. Church, South; born Winchester, Va., May 28, 1854; son of William R. and Margaret A. (Collins) DENNY<\/strong>; English descent; father, merchant and manufacturer; paternal grandparents William and Margaret (Hotsenpiller) DENNY<\/strong>, maternal grandparents Joseph S. and Rebecca (Brown) COLLINS<\/strong>; educated Shenandoah Valley Academy, Winchester, Va., Princeton University, University of Virginia; graduated Princeton University B.A. (1876) and M.A. (1879) degrees; University of Virginia, B.L., 1877, LL.D. degree was conferred upon him by Emery & Henry College, also by Emory College, Georgia, 1910; engaged in practice of law early in life; admitted into Baltimore Conference, M. E. Church, South, March, 1880; elected Chaplain to the University of Virginia 1889; from 1891 to 1910 held chair in Vanderbilt University as Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy; Fraternal Delegate to M. E. Church, 1908; elected Bishop of M. Episcopal Church, South, 1910; Chairman of Book Committee of M. E. Church, South, 1898-1910; served as member of five general conferences, leading Baltimore delegation at last four conferences; Whig Hall representative in Lynde Prize Debate, Princeton University, 1876; won oratorship of Jefferson Society, University of Virginia, 1877; married Lucy Chase CHAPMAN<\/strong>, July 5, 1881; member Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Phi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" City: Nashville DENNY, Collins, Bishop M. E. Church, South; born Winchester, Va., May 28, 1854; son of William R. and Margaret A. (Collins) DENNY; English descent; father, merchant and manufacturer; paternal grandparents William and Margaret (Hotsenpiller) DENNY, maternal grandparents Joseph S. and Rebecca (Brown) COLLINS; educated Shenandoah Valley Academy, Winchester, Va., Princeton University, University of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,4408,7,4419],"tags":[208,926,942,1719,3218],"class_list":{"0":"post-9034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-davidson","7":"category-surname-d","8":"category-vanderbilt-university","9":"category-x_featured-image-no","10":"tag-brown","11":"tag-chapman","12":"tag-collins","13":"tag-denny","14":"tag-hotsenpiller","15":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9035,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034\/revisions\/9035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}