Quintard, Charles Todd

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Connection to Legacies of American Slavery Database
Enslaver of persons of African descent
Contributor to the Lost Cause
Post-emancipation defender of racial hierarchies supporting white supremacy
Name
Quintard, Charles Todd
One-line bio
Charles Todd Quintard was an Episcopal priest, the second Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee, first Vice-Chancellor of the University of the South, a chaplain in the Confederate army, and an enslaver.
Biography
Charles Todd Quintard was born in Connecticut in 1824 and educated at Columbia College and at medical school in New York. In 1847 he moved to Athens, Georgia, to practice medicine and married his partner’s cousin Eliza Catherine Isabella Hand the following year. Through her mother Eliza's grandfather was Roswell King, Sr., manager of the vast land and enslaved labor of Pierce Butler and a cotton-mill owner. Her brother, Roswell, Jr., succeeded his father as Butler's plantation manager. Her stepfather, N. J. Bayard of Roswell, Georgia, owned 14 persons in 1850. The family into which the young physician and later priest married prepared Quintard for living maong and owning enslaved persons in the South. His diary references the purchase of an enslaved boy in early 1865, just before the Civil War's end.

In 1851 Quintard moved to Tennessee to take a position at the Memphis Medical College as the professor of physiology and pathological anatomy. In Tennessee, he began reading for holy orders in the Episcopal Church under Bishop Otey, the future founder of the University of the South, who ordained him a priest in 1856. He became rector of the Church of the Advent in Nashville. During the Civil War Quintard served as chaplain to the First Tennessee Regiment in the Confederate Army.

In 1865 Quintard was elected as the second Bishop of Tennessee. When as Vice-Chancellor his fundraising efforts for the University of the South took him to Great Britain in 1867-68, he appealed to British former slaveholders and Confederate supporters. Returning to Britain in 1875-76 for the university, he met the Confederate exile Charlotte Manigault, whose donation of money to build a school of theology stipulated that in honor of Quintard’s original profession it should be a memorial to her slave-owning father but named St. Luke’s Hall (after the patron saint of doctors) to honor Quintard.
Date of Birth
1824
Date of Death
1898
Historical Period
1820-1865: Slavery, Anti-Slavery, and Civil War
1865-1890: Emancipation, Reconstruction and Resistance to Reconstruction
1890-1945: Era of the Lost Cause, Jim Crow legal segregation and discrimination, and organized anti-Black racism
Related Organization(s)
University of the South; Sewanee, Tennessee
Confederate States of America – Military service
Employed By
University of the South; Sewanee, Tennessee
Wikidata Link
Charles Todd Quintard Wikidata

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