title: John Cowper Granbery
text: # John Cowper Granbery
  
  John Cowper Granbery (1829–1907) was an American Confederate chaplain and bishop of the Southern Methodist Episcopal church.
  
  ## Early life
  
  John Cowper Granbery was born on December 5, 1829, in Norfolk, Virginia. He graduated from Randolph-Macon College in 1848.
  
  ## Career
  
  Granbery entered the Methodist ministry and served as assistant preacher and missioner in Washington, Richmond, and Petersburg. He was a chaplain on the campus of the University of Virginia from 1859 to 1861. During the American Civil War of 1861–1865, Granberry served as a chaplain in the Confederate States Army.
  
  Granberry was a professor of moral philosophy and practical theology in Vanderbilt University from 1875 to 1882. He was elected Bishop in the Southern Methodist church in 1882.
  
  ## Personal life and death
  
  Granberry married Jenny Massie in 1858. They had a child. He married his second wife, Ella Winston, in 1882, and they had eight children.
  
  Granbery died on April 1, 1907, in Ashland, Virginia.
  
  