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Shettles, E. L. (Elijah LeRoy), 1852-1940
Elijah LeRoy Shettles was a Methodist minister, magazine editor, publisher, and bibliographer. Shettles was born in 1852 in Mississippi. From 1881 to 1891 Shettles traveled the Southwest as a hard-drinking, cheating, itinerate gambler. In 1891 he felt a calling to the Methodist ministry. Shettles' ministerial career, all of it in Texas, spanned over thirty years. In 1908 he was made assistant editor of the Texas Methodist Historical Quarterly. Shettles retired in 1921 and moved to Austin, where he devoted himself to book collecting. He made significant contributions to the development of the libraries at Rice Institute, Sam Houston State Teachers College, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Texas. Shettles died in 1940.
From the description of Shettles, Elijah L., papers, 1792-1940. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 467392193
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Shettles, Elijah L., 1852-1940
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Elijah Leroy Shettles (1852-1940), Methodist minister, magazine editor, publisher, and bibliographer was born in 1852 in the Flatwoods country of Mississippi near Pontotoc, the son of Abner and Caroline (Browning) Shettles. His maternal grandfather, the family patriarch, was a Baptist minister and had a lifelong influence on Shettles. During his eighty-eight years Shettles worked as a teacher, a farm-implement salesman, a law student, a pressman for a newspaper, a freight agent, a p...
Shettles, L. B.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mf4p31 (person)
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Shettles, E. L.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6157h15 (person)
No biographical history available for this identity.
