Dr. James Abram Heard, State Normal School at Florence (1885-1886)

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University of North Alabama Archives and Special Collections, University Collection-University Portraits, Individual: Presidents, LaGrange-Present, Collier Library 

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UPI: 9/ UPI: 6.32

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Dr. James Abram Heard was educated at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia. After graduation, he studied law. He became a Methodist minister in 1843 and served a number of churches as well as cabinet appointments in the Alabama, North Alabama, and Memphis Conferences. He served as president of two Tennessee colleges becoming the nineth president of State Normal School at Florence in 1885. He only served one year as president, during which time he also organized the First Methodist Church of Sheffield and became its first pastor. He resigned the presidency in 1886 to devote full time to his ministerial duties. He dies in Florence October 15, 1896.

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1-23-2026

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