Nationality American Died 1896 Name Leroy Halsey | Religion Presbyterian Occupation Preacher
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Relatives Henry F. Halsey (brother) | ||
Leroy Jones Halsey (1812-1896) was an American Presbyterian scholar and author.
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Career
He worked as a Professor of Historical and Pastoral Theology at the McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago.
Although he was living in Chicago during the American Civil War of 1861-1865, he was directly affected by the war through his direct family. Indeed, in a letter addressed to Andrew Johnson (1808-1875), who served as the 17th President of the United States from 1865 to 1869, sent on September 26, 1865, Presbyterian minister David Xavier Junkin (1808-1880) explained that Leroy's brother, Henry F. Halsey (1815-1887), had been ruined by Union troops, who took over his factory in Alabama. As a result, Leroy was the only one left to support his brother's family in the vanquished South. Junkin asked Johnson to have the factory returned to Henry Halsey, making it possible for him to earn his livelihood again.
He is credited for first coining the sobriquet "Athens of the South" to refer to Nashville. The phrase was later promoted by Reverend Philip Lindsley (1786–1855), a Presbyterian minister who founded the University of Nashville. He went on to edit a volume of Lindsley's publications. Additionally, he wrote a memoir about Reverend Lewis W. Green (1806-1863), another Presbyterian minister who served as the President of Hampden-Sydney College from 1849 to 1856, of Transylvania University from 1856 to 1857, and of Centre College from 1857 to 1863.
Death
He died in 1896.