Tuscaloosa-Montgomery-Lowndes County AlArchives Biographies.....Manly, Basil January 29, 1798 - December 21, 1868
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Author: "Alabama: Her History, Resources, War Record, and Public Men From 1540 to 1872," by Willis Brewer, published 1872, pages 562-563

Basil Manly resided in Tuskaloosa for many years.  He was the brother of Judge 
Mathias E. and Gov. Charles Manly of N. C., and was born in Pittsboro, N. D., 
Jan. 29, 1798.  At the age of 20 years he was licensed as a minister of the 
gospel, and a year later entered South Carolina College to perfect his 
education.  He was graduated, and from 1826 to 1837 was pastor of a 
congregation in Charleston.  In the latter year he was chosen to the presidency 
of the University of Alabama, and came to reside in Tuskaloosa.  He was 
retained I the most honorable position for eighteen years, when he resigned, 
and returned to Charleston to resume his clerical labors.  In 1859 he again 
came to the State to serve as general missionary and evangelist.  Two years 
after he was called to the charge of a church in Montgomery.  In 1863 he came 
to Tuskaloosa, and resided here till 1867, when he removed to Greenville, South 
Carolina.  His death occurred there Dec. 21, 1868

Dr. Manly* was one of the most gifted and exemplary men of his time.  “As to 
his style of preaching, it was simple yet “dignified, classical without 
pendantry, exuberant without gaudiness, profound without obscurity, earnest and 
zealous without enthusiasm, and pathetic without cant.”** As an educator he was 
no less distinguished than as a minister.  “His learning was varied rather than 
profound.  He possessed a vast range of outline knowledge.  His vocabulary was 
the richest I ever knew any man to command, giving a freshness to his 
conceptions that never failed to secure unflagging attention.  He was never 
dry, jejune, or prosy.”*** He married Miss Rudolph of South Carolina.  Rev. 
Basil Manly, president of Georgetown (Ky.) College; Rev. Charles Manly, 
president of Union University (Murfreesboro), Tennessee; and Capt. R. T. Manly 
of Mobile, (a brave officer of the 59th Alabama), are his sons.

*  The degree of “LL.D.” was conferred upon him by some college.
** Rev. Samuel Henderson of Macon..
*** Rev. E. B. Teague of Dallas.


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