John Cowper Granbery
# John Cowper Granbery

John Cowper Granbery (1829–1907) was an American Confederate chaplain and bishop of the Southern Methodist Episcopal church.

## Early life

John Cowper Granbery was born on December 5, 1829, in Norfolk, Virginia. He graduated from Randolph-Macon College in 1848.

## Career

Granbery entered the Methodist ministry and served as assistant preacher and missioner in Washington, Richmond, and Petersburg. He was a chaplain on the campus of the University of Virginia from 1859 to 1861. During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, Granberry served as a chaplain in the Confederate States Army.

Granberry was a professor of moral philosophy and practical theology in Vanderbilt University from 1875 to 1882. He was elected Bishop in the Southern Methodist church in 1882.

## Personal life and death

Granberry married Jenny Massie in 1858. They had a child. He married his second wife, Ella Winston, in 1882, and they had eight children.

Granbery died on April 1, 1907, in Ashland, Virginia.

