SHIPP, Albert Micajah, educator, born in Stokes county, North Carolina, 15 January, 1819. He was graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1840, and received into the South Carolina Methodist conference in 1841. In 1847 he became president of Greensborough female college, North Carolina, and in 1849 professor of history and French in the University of North Carolina. He was made in 1859 president of Wofford college, Spartanburg Court-House, South Carolina, in 1874 professor of exegetical and biblical theology in Vanderbilt university, and in 1882 dean of the faculty and chancellor of that university. He originated the feature of biblical professorships in all Methodist institutions of learning, and was among the first to advocate biblical institutes for the proper education of preachers for the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He has been a member of every general conference since 1850. He has published "The History of Methodism in South Carolina" (Nashville, 1882).