Research Catalog

Title

James Clinton Hoggard papers, 1940-2002.

Author

Hoggard, James Clinton.

Supplementary Content

Finding aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

7.4 linear ft.

Subjects

• African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
• Bishops > United States
• Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
• African Americans > Missions
• African American churches
• African Americans > Religion
• Scrapbooks
• Hoggard, Eva S (Eva Stanton), 1923-1997
• Hoggard, James Clinton
• Testimonies
• African American clergy
• African American missionaries

Genre/Form

• Scrapbooks.
• Testimonies.

Note

• Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
• Books and magazines transferred to the General Research and Reference Division.

Source (note)

• Jay and Paul Hoggard

Biography (note)

• James Clinton Hoggard, born in 1910, pastored seven A.M.E. Zion churches before he was elected in 1952 to administer the Department of Overseas Missions. His duties included the editorship of the zMissionary Seer,y the official missions monthly publication of the Church. In 1972 Hoggard was elected bishop of the Third, Fourth and Sixth Episcopal Districts, including the Indiana, Kentucky, North Alabama, East-Tennessee-Virginia, Western New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, London-Birmingham (England) and Jamaica Conferences, as well as the Barbados and Bahamas, Guyana (South America) Conferences. He retired from this position in 1992. Hoggard belonged to and was active in a myriad of interdenominational, interfaith, interreligious and intercultural agencies. He died in 2002.

Call Number

Sc MG 740

Author

Hoggard, James Clinton.

Title

James Clinton Hoggard papers, 1940-2002.

Summary

The James Clinton Hoggard papers reflect Hoggard's professional life first as pastor of several A.M.E. Zion churches in New York State and Washington, D.C. in the 1940's and 1950's, and his rise in 1972 to bishop of the Fourth Episcopal District.

The collection comprises a substantial amount of biographical information. Several folders document Hoggard's pastorship, particularly at the Institutional A.M.E. Zion Church in Yonkers, New York, from 1945-1951. Included are programs for services, minutes of committee meetings, Hoggard's letters to the congregation and correspondence with church officials, newsletters, information regarding activities sponsored by the church, and programs and other documents pertaining to his church's relationship with other churches.

Although there is a limited amount of correspondence, there are letters written by Hoggard as the editor of "Missionary Seer," and as the secretary-treasurer of the church in the 1960's. Other correspondence relates to his role as bishop. The collection includes Hoggard's writings, encompassing sermons and eulogies, 1988-2001, and an essay about Paul Robeson. Files also discuss the publication of a book Hoggard wrote commemorating the bicentennial of the founding of the A.M.E. Zion Church, 1996.

Official A.M.E. Zion Church records include programs for memorial services for individual members, programs for services held at individual churches, and copies of deeds for properties owned by the church in Alabama. A few files discuss the A.M.E. Zion's relationships with other churches and organizations.

The bulk of the collection consists of printed material related to district and quadrennial conferences in the geographical area over which Hoggard presided. The material includes reports, programs, addresses, news clippings, minutes, a commemorative scrapbook, and a small amount of correspondence. The Western New York Conference also documents annual pilgrimages to the Harriet Tubman Home and Library in Auburn.

Biography

James Clinton Hoggard, born in 1910, pastored seven A.M.E. Zion churches before he was elected in 1952 to administer the Department of Overseas Missions. His duties included the editorship of the zMissionary Seer,y the official missions monthly publication of the Church. In 1972 Hoggard was elected bishop of the Third, Fourth and Sixth Episcopal Districts, including the Indiana, Kentucky, North Alabama, East-Tennessee-Virginia, Western New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, London-Birmingham (England) and Jamaica Conferences, as well as the Barbados and Bahamas, Guyana (South America) Conferences. He retired from this position in 1992. Hoggard belonged to and was active in a myriad of interdenominational, interfaith, interreligious and intercultural agencies. He died in 2002.

Hoggard's wife, Eva Stanton Hoggard, served as Missionary Supervisor of the Women's Home and Overseas Missionary Society; she died in 1997.

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Research Call Number

Sc MG 740