Biography of Bishop Eugene Russell Hendrix Excerpted from "Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1911-1912", Edited by Geo. W. Martin, Secretary. Vol XII., State Printing Office, Topeka, Kansas 1912. submitted by Teresa Lindquist (merope@radix.net); (copyright) 2001 by Teresa Lindquist ----------------------------------------------------------------------- KSGENWEB INTERNET GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In keeping with the KSGenWeb policy of providing free information on the Internet, this data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other gain. Copying of the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- BISHOP EUGENE RUSSELL HENDRIX, D. D., LL. D., was born May 17, 1847, in Fayette, Howard county, Missouri. His parents were Adam Hendrix and Isabel Jane Murray, of Maryland, being of Huguenot and Scotch ancestry. After being educated at Central College, Fayette, Mo., Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., and Union Theological Seminary, New York city, he entered the Missouri Conference in 1869, and his first pastorate was the Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church South, Leavenworth, Kan., where a delightful friendship developed with Judge David J. Brewer, which continued throughout life. After some nine years as a pastor he became president of Central College, Fayette, Mo., from 1878, and remained there until his election in 1886, at Richmond, Va., as a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. In this latter relation he has presided some six or eight times over the Western Conference. Bishop Hendrix was elected in 1908 as the first president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, which position he holds for four years. It represents over 100,000 Protestant ministers and some 17,000,000 communicants. In 1872 he was married to Miss Annie E. Scarritt, of Kansas City, the eldest child of the Rev. Nathan Scarritt, D. D., so intimately identified with early Kansas history as a missionary and preacher. (Included with the article, "The Methodist Episcopal Church South, In Kansas--1854 to 1906.", page 156-157)