Lewis C. Branscomb

Lewis C. Branscomb was born in 1865 in Union Springs, Alabama.[1][2] He graduated from Southern University, later known as Birmingham–Southern College, and Emory University, and he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.[2] He was ordained as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1886.[2][3]

Branscomb was a Methodist minister in Anniston, Bessemer, Birmingham, Decatur, Huntsville, and Talladega.[1][2] He was especially associated with the First Methodist Church of Birmingham, Alabama.[3] Branscomb was the editor of the Alabama Christian Advocate from 1916 to 1922.[1][2] Additionally, he served on the boards of the Federated Churches of Christ and the Methodist Orphanage of Troy, Alabama.[3]

The First Methodist Church of Birmingham, Alabama, where Branscomb was the minister.

Branscomb served on the executive committee of the board of directors of the Anti-Saloon League; he was also the president of its Alabama chapter.[1][2][4] He served on the boards of trustees of the Woman's College of Alabama, now known as Huntingdon College, and Birmingham–Southern College.[2]

Branscomb died on October 30, 1930 in Jasper, Alabama.[1][2][4] He had suffered from injuries in a car accident on October 15, and failed to recover.[5] On Founders' Day in 1931, Branscomb was honored at Huntingdon College.[6]

One of Branscomb's sons, Harvie Branscomb, became a university administrator while his grandson Lewis M. Branscomb became a physicist.