Edwin DuBose Mouzon was born May 19, 1869 in Spartansburg, S.C. and died February 10, 1937 in Charlotte, N. C. He graduated A.B. at Wofford College, Spartansburg, S.C. in 1889. In that yearm he joined the South Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, S.C. and was soon transfered to Texas, serving pastorates at Bryan (1889-1890) Caldwell (1890)), Galveston (1891-1893), Flatonioa (1895), Abilene 1896-97) and Fort Worth (1898-1901)). During 1901-1904, he was pastor of the Central Methodist Church of Kansas City, Mo. and then returned to Texas, ahving charge of the Travis Park Church at San Antonio during 1904-08. For two years thereafter, he was professor of theologyh at Southwestern College, Georgetown, Texas. In 1910, he was elected bishop of the M.E. Church, South Carolina. Besides meeting the routine demands on the time of a Methodist bishop, Edwin was a leader in various activities to promote the betterment and extend the influence of his denomination. At Rock Hill on October 27, 1926, Edwin took the Chair of the upper S.C. Conference. He was one of the dounders of Southern Methodist University; assisted in establishing Searritt College for Christian workers, in Nashville, Tenn; was the bishop chosen to inaugurate the autonomous Methodist Church of Brazil in 1930, and was chairman of the board of Christian education of the Methodist Church, S.C. from 1930-1937. From his early ministry on , he was vitally interested in the unification of the various branches of American Methodism, being one of the chief exponents of unification in S.C. He was co-chairman of the commission on unification from 1930-1937 and played a large part in preparing the plan which was adopted in 1938 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Methodist Protestant Church. He was also very interested in the missionary work of the church and made official visits to the missions in Mexico in 1911 and South America in 1915. He was a delegate to the Methodist Ecumenical Conferences in Toronto (1911), London (1921) and Atlanta (1931). A strong prohibitionist, Edwin was opposed to the repeal of the 18th amendment. He was widely known and admired as a preacheer and ranked among the half dozen leading pulpit orators in the United States. he was recognized as the leader of the liberal theological group and was held in high esteem by the younger Methodist preachers and laymen. he delivered the Cole lectures at Vanderbilt University in 1925, the Fondern lectures at Southern Methodist University in 1925 and the Lyhman Beecher lectures on preaching at Yale University (the first southern minister to hold this important lectureship) in 1929. Thses were published in book form as The Program of Jesus and The Missionary Evangel (1925) and Preaching with Authority (1929). His other published books were: Does God Care? (1919) and The Fundamentals of Methodist (1913). In addition,He contributed to church periodicals. Frankness, forthrightness and deep sincerity were among his salient personal characteristics. With these qualities were combined with a sympathy, kindness and understanding that endeared him to all that knew him. A unique evidence of the esteem in which he was held by people of all denominations was the actions of the Hebrew United Brotherhood of Charlotte, N.C. in rememberance of him after his death in sending a substantial gift of money to the Children's Home at Winston-Salem, N.C. in rememberance of him. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Southwestern University in 1905 and he received the honary degree off LLD from Southwestern (1911), Duke (1930), and Southern Methodist (1935) universities, He was 32nd degree Mason. Politically he was a Democrat. Edwin was a Bishop for 27 years. The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1967.