Robert Hudson Howren

Robert Hudson Howren (August 9, 1811 - September 22, 1889) was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He helped organize the Florida Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Tallahassee in 1845.[1] He was the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Florida Annual Conference in 1848 which helped establish the first educational institution in Florida, the East Florida Seminary, which was a forerunner to the University of Florida.[2] He became a Methodist minister in 1839 in Lowndes County, Georgia, and served for more than 50 years through south Georgia and north Florida.[3] He was the father of Florida congressman Henry Durant Howren and the maternal grandfather of Florida Secretary of State Robert Andrew Gray.[4]

References

  1. ^ Thrift, Charles Tinsley (1944). The Tale of the Florida Circuit Rider: An Introduction to the Rise of Methodism in Middle and East Florida. The Florida Southern College Press.
  2. ^ Smith, George Gilman (1881). The History of Methodism in Georgia and Florida: 1785 to 1865. J. W. Burke and Company.
  3. ^ "Reverend Robert H. Howren ~ Methodist Circuit Rider". Ray City History Blog. 2017-03-11. Retrieved 2025-10-11.
  4. ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Florida Memory • Portrait of Reverend Robert Hudson Howren". Florida Memory. Retrieved 2025-10-11.
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