Eugene Russell Hendrix

Wesleyan University
Union Theological Seminary

OccupationClergymanSpouse

Ann Elizabeth Scarritt

(m. 1872)

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Eugene Russell Hendrix (May 17, 1847 – November 11, 1927) was a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in the U.S., elected in 1886.

Biography

Eugene Russell Hendrix was born in Fayette, Missouri on May 17, 1847. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1867, and from Union Theological Seminary in 1869.^[1]^[2]

He died at his home in Kansas City, Missouri on November 11, 1927, and was buried at Mount Washington Cemetery in Independence.^[3]

Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, is named in his honor.

Family

He was married to Ann Elizabeth Scarritt (born May 23, 1851), daughter of Nathan Spencer Scarritt (1821–1890) and Martha Matilda Chick (died 1873), on June 20, 1872.^[1]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard, eds. (1904). The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Vol. V. Boston: American Biographical Society. Retrieved April 20, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
^ ^a ^b Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society. Vol. XII. Kansas Historical Society. 1912. pp. 156–157. Retrieved April 20, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
^ "Rev. E. R. Hendrix, Retired Methodist Bishop, is Dead". The Anniston Star. Kansas City, Missouri. UP. November 12, 1927. p. 5. Retrieved April 20, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.