SC-35-6 Albert M. Shipp

Marker text: ALBERT M. SHIPP

In Gillespie Cemetery, west of here, is buried Albert M. Shipp, Methodist minister, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina 1849-59, second President of Wofford College 1859-75, Vanderbilt University Professor and Dean 1875-85, and author of "Methodism in South Carolina." Dr. Shipp's last home, "Rose Hill" Plantation, is two miles NE.

Erected by Wofford College Alumni Association of Chesterfield-Dillon-Marlboro Counties, 1970