Ap­ril 14, 1849, Wash­ing­ton Coun­ty, Ten­nes­see.

Ap­ril 23, 1919, Mus­ko­gee, Ok­la­ho­ma.

Ma­ple Lawn Cem­e­te­ry, Jones­bo­rough, Ten­nes­see; he was re­in­terred there in 1924, hav­ing orig­in­al­ly been bur­ied else­where.

Hoss grad­u­at­ed from Ohio Wes­ley­an and Em­ory & Hen­ry Coll­ege, Vir­gin­ia (1869). In 1870, he be­came an or­dained min­is­ter in the Meth­od­ist Epis­co­pal Church, South. He pas­tored in Knox­ville, Ten­nes­see (1870-2); San Fran­cis­co, Cal­i­for­nia (1872-4); and Ash­ville, North Car­o­li­na. From 1876-81, he taught at Mar­tha Wash­ing­ton Coll­ege, Abing­don, Vir­gin­ia, then be­came pres­i­dent of his alma mater, Em­ory & Hen­ry Coll­ege. He was al­so a pro­fes­sor of Church His­tory at Van­der­bilt Un­i­ver­si­ty (1885-90), and ed­it­ed the Christ­ian Ad­vo­cate in Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see (1890-2). In 1902, he be­came the Meth­od­ist bi­shop of Dal­las, Tex­as. His works in­clude:

• Elihu Em­bree, Abo­li­tion­ist, in Pub­li­ca­tions of the Van­der­bilt South­ern His­tor­ic­al So­ci­e­ty (Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see: Un­i­ver­si­ty Press Com­pa­ny, 1897)

• Hughes, p. 440
• Martin, p. 319
• Nutter, p. 417

1. O God, Great Fa­ther, Lord, and King!