Andrew Sledd

Andrew Warren Sledd was the last president of the University of Florida at Lake City. He was also president of Southern University from 1910 to 1914. He later became a professor and an influential biblical scholar at Emory University. He died of lung cancer in 1953, at the age of 89.

About Andrew Sledd in brief

Andrew Warren Sledd was the last president of the University of Florida at Lake City. He was also president of Southern University from 1910 to 1914. He later became a professor and an influential biblical scholar at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology from 1914 to 1939. He is remembered for his scholarly analysis of biblical texts as literature, his call for an end to racial violence, and his influence on a generation of Methodist seminary students, scholars and ministers. His father was a prominent Methodist minister in the Virginia Methodist Conference. He married Annie Florence Candler in 1899; his father conducted the wedding ceremony. He died of lung cancer in 1953, at the age of 89. He leaves behind a wife and four children. He also leaves a son, Robert, and a daughter, Frances Carey Greene Slingd. His son Robert is a noted author and author-in- residence at Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia. His daughter is the author of a book on the history of African-Americans in the U.S., “The Negro in America: A History of the American Negro” (Oxford University Press, 2002). Sled d is survived by his wife, Frances Greene SledD, and two children, Robert and Robert Newton Sledt. He has a son and daughter, Robert Newton, Jr., who is also a Methodist minister. He had a son named Sam Hose, who was named after an African-American man who was killed by a lynch mob in the South in the early 20th century. He and his wife are survived by their daughter, Annie Florence, and their son Robert Robert, Jr.

The couple had three children, who are now in their late 80s and early 90s. They had one son, Andrew Warren, III, who is now the president of Theological seminary in Georgia. The family lives in Lynchburg, Virginia, and has two daughters, Frances and Frances Carey, who lives in New York City. The Sledds have four grandchildren, two sons and two step-granddaughters. They also have one great-great-grandson, Robert Warren Slesd, who also lives in Virginia. Sleedd was a member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity; he was also the college’s outstanding student-athlete and was particularly known as the baseball team’s first baseman and star hitter. He earned a second Master of Arts degree in Greek from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1896, and completed one year’s additional graduate work toward a doctoral degree. While at Harvard, he played for the Harvard Crimson baseball team, and he is remembered as one of Harvard’s greatest athletes of the era. He left the college without finishing his undergraduate degree requirements, first accepting a position as a teacher in Durant, Mississippi, and then as the principal of a high school in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. In 1898, he was ordained as a minister and licensed to preach in 1898. In 1899, while traveling by train between Atlanta and Covington, Georgia, he witnessed the aftermath of the lynching of a black man named Hose.

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