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University of North Alabama Archives and Special Collections, University Collection-University Portraits, Individual: Presidents, LaGrange-Present, Collier Library
Identifier
UPI: 6.8/ UPI: 6.31
Description
Dr. Hardie Brown was born August 8, 1832, in Gallatin, Tennessee. He was educated at Cumberland University and became a teacher at Dallas Academy in Selma, Alabama after he graduated. He became a part of the Alabama Conference (Methodist preacher) and volunteered for army service during the Civil War. He became chaplain of the Twenty-Eighth Alabama Regiment. In 1870, he was appointed to the Florence Methodist Church during the North Alabama Conference in Gadsden. A year later, he was appointed Professor of Mental and Moral Science and Assistant Professor of Languages at State Normal School at Florence. Nine years later, he begins serving as the eighth president of State Normal College at Florence. He continues in this position until 1885, when he leaves Florence. He serves as minister at First Methodist Church of Birmingham. He dies August 27, 1887, in Birmingham and is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery.
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1-23-2026
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Keywords
University Presidents, State Normal School at Florence, University of North Alabama History, Education in Alabama
