Gwinnett-Monroe County GaArchives Biographies.....Mays, H. B. September 2 1869 - living in 1911
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Author: J. C. Flanigan
Rev. H. B. Mays.

	Rev. Henry Bean Mays, pastor of the Buford Methodist church and 
secretary of the North Georgia Conference Sunday School Board, was born in 
Forsyth, Monroe County, Ga., September 2, 1869. He joined the church in April, 
1879 and moved to Atlanta in September of the same year.

	He attended private schools in Forsyth for four years and the public 
schools of Atlanta for seven years. He graduated from the Boys’ High School, 
Atlanta, in June 1887.

	From July, 1887, to September, 1888, he was a traveling salesman for a 
wholesale drug house. From September, 1888, to February, 1892, he was 
assistant secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association in Atlanta. In 
the winter and spring of 1889, he toured the Holy Land and Egypt for help in 
his study of the Bible. After his return from abroad, he was general secretary 
of the Y. M. C. A., Ashville, N. C., from February, 1892, to April, 1893.

	He was licensed to preach at Trinity church, Atlanta, April, 1893, and 
from May to October of the same year, was a worker in the Moody-Sanky World's 
Fair Campaign in Chicago and a student in the Bible Institute of the same city.

	In November, 1893, at Gainesville, he was admitted on trial in the 
North Georgia Conference, ordained deacon by Bishop John S. Keener, at 
Elberton, November 24, 1895, and made an elder at Athens by Bishop Galloway.

	He has been pastor of the following churches: Young Harris in 1894; 
Hanleiter, Griffin, in 1895-6-7-8; Jefferson in 1899-00-01-02; Hartwell in 
1903-4; Inman Park, Atlanta, in 1905-6-7-8; Cartersville in 1909-10; Buford in 
1911.

	He has served as secretary of .the Sunday school board for thirteen 
years.

	He is one of the ablest ministers in the conference.


Additional Comments:
From:

GWINNETT CHURCHES
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF EVERY CHURCH
IN GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA,
WITH SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF ITS
MINISTERS
BY
J. C. FLANIGAN
1911

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