{"id":9944,"date":"2014-01-06T21:14:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T03:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=9944"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:41:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:41:58","slug":"lambuth-walter-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/lambuth-walter-russell\/","title":{"rendered":"LAMBUTH, Walter Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Nashville<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>LAMBUTH, Walter Russell, <\/b>clergyman; born Shanghai, China, November 10, 1854; English and Scotch descent; son of <b>James W.<\/b> and <b>Mary Isabella (McClellan) LAMBUTH<\/b>; father, missionary to China and Japan; paternal grandparents <b>John R.<\/b> and <b>Nancy (Kirkpatrick) LAMBUTH<\/b>; maternal grandparents <b>William G.<\/b> and <b>Sarah Ann (Cleveland) McCLELLAN<\/b>; married <b>Daisy L. KELLEY<\/b>, August 2, 1877; educated Emory &amp; Henry College, Virginia; Cumberland University, Vanderbilt University; graduated from Emory &amp; 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&#8217;s Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, 1910; Bishop of the M. E. Church, South, elected at the General Conference, 1910, Asheville, N. C.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>Source: Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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":[31,162,81,7,4062,4419],"tags":[1892,986,1851,3336,3337],"class_list":{"0":"post-9944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cumberland-university","7":"category-davidson","8":"category-surname-l","9":"category-vanderbilt-university","10":"category-whoswho","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-kelley","14":"tag-kirkpatrick","15":"tag-lambuth","16":"tag-mcclellan","17":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9944"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13003,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944\/revisions\/13003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}