Elijah Embree Hoss

Elijah Embree Hoss, Sr (April 14, 1849 – April 23, 1919) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1902. He also distinguished himself as a Methodist pastor, college professor, administrator, and editor.

Early life Born on April 14, 1849, along Cherokee Creek, four miles from Jonesboro in Washington County, Tennessee, U.S.A., he was a son of Henry and Anna Maria (née Sevier) Hoss. His mother was a granddaughter of General John Sevier. Previous to this, he was a delegate to five general conferences of his denomination. The final time he was elected, he lacked only six votes in the Holston Conference, besides his own, to being unanimously elected.

Episcopal ministry The Rev. Dr. Elijah Embree Hoss was elected to the episcopacy of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, by the 1902 General Conference. His Episcopal Residence was at 810 Broadway, Nashville, Tennessee.

Bishop Hoss was a fraternal representative of his denomination to nearly every Methodist Church in the world. His last great mission of this kind was to Australia in 1915. He was the presiding bishop of the M.E. South work in Brazil from 1905 to 1908 and in the Orient in 1910 and 1915.

Retirement, death, and burial Bishop Hoss was given a year's vacation in 1914–15. He retired on account of feeble health in 1918. He died on 23 April 1919 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, at the home of his son, Henry. He was buried in Muskogee beside his wife. They were re-interred together in Maple Lawn Cemetery at Jonesboro, Tennessee, on 12 April 1924.

Selected writings Address: "The Religious Press", Washington, Second Ecumenical Conference, 1891 Address: "General Missionary Conference", 1901, Organization for Mission Work Address: "The New Demands upon Methodist Authorship", London, Third Ecumenical Conference, 1901 Sermon: "Face to Face with the Eternal World", Wesleyan Christian Advocate, 1904 Address: "Temperance and Prohibition", Toronto, Fourth Ecumenical Conference, 1911 Methodist Fraternity and Federation, 1913 David Morton - A Biography, 1916 William McKendree, A Biographical Study Hymn: "O God, Great Father, Lord and King", 1903 (Published in Nashville Christian Advocate, 1904)

Biography Life, Ecumenical Methodist, I.P. Martin.