Biography:

Episcopal priest. Born– January 15, 1891, Madison, Ga. Parents– Hinton Crawford and Lenena Ligon (Reeves) Pennington. Married– Gertrude Guerry Barnett, June 25, 1940. Education– University of Georgia, LL.B., 1914; Cornell University, M.A., 1923; studied for the ministry and ordained into the Episcopal Church in 1921. Served as an ensign in the U.S. Navy, aboard the USS President Lincoln. Served as rector of parishes in Homer, N.Y.; Marianna, Jacksonville, Ocala, and Miami, Fla.; St. John’s Church in Mobile. Recalled to active duty with the Navy in 1941. One of the founders of the Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, appointed historiographer of the Episcopal Church, 1949.

Source:

American Antiquarian Society. Proceedings. Vol. 62, no. 1, pp. 7-8, 1952.

Publication(s):

America’s First Public Library; the Provincial Library at Charles-Town in Carolina, 1698. Columbia, S.C.; South Carolina State Library, 1970.

Apostle of New Jersey, John Talbot, 1645-1727. Philadelphia; The Church Historical Society, 1938.

The Beginning of the Episcopal Church in the Miami Area. Hartford, Conn.; Church Missions Pub. Co., 1941.

The Beginning of the Library in Charles Town, South Carolina. Worcester, Mass.; The Church Historical Society, 1935.

The Church of England and the Reformation. Eton, England; Savile Press, 1952.

The Church of England and the Reverend Clement Hall in Colonial North Carolina. Hartford, Conn.; Church Missions Publishing Co., 1937.

The Church of England in Colonial New Hampshire. Hartford, Conn.; Church Missions Publishing Co., 1937-1938.

The Church of England in Colonial Virginia. Hartford, Conn.; Church Missions Publishing Co., 1937.

Commissary Blair. Hartford, Conn.; Church Missions Publishing Co., 1936.

The Episcopal Succession During the English Reformation. Windsor Eng.; Savile Press, 1952.

The First Hundred Years of the Church of England in Rhode Island. Hartford, Conn.; Church Missions Pub. Co., 1935.

Fr. J.0.S. Huntington, O.H.C., at Miami. Hartford, Conn.; Church Missions Publishing Co., 1940.

George White. Hartford, Conn.; Church Missions Publishing Co., 1943.

John Freeman Young, Second Bishop of Florida. Hartford, Conn.; Church Missions Publishing Co., 1939.

Nathaniel Evans; a Poet of Colonial America. Ocala, Fla.; Taylor Printing Co., 1935.

The Planting of Christianity Among the West-Saxons. Windsor, Eng.; Savile Press, 1951.

The Reverend Arthur Browne of Rhode Island and New Hampshire. Hartford, Conn.; Church Missions Publishing Co., 1938.

The Reverend John Checkley. Hartford, Conn.; Church Missions Publishing Co., 1935.

The Reverend John Jacob Tschudy; Dedicated to the Dalcho Historical Society, 1951. Charleston; Dalcho Historical Society, 1954.

The Reverend Thomas Bray. Philadelphia; Church Historical Society, 1934.

Scottish Bishops and Their Consecrators. Hartford, Conn.; Church Missions Publishing Co., 1941.