Alexander Lacy Phillips; b. Sep. 20, 1859, received his A.B. from UNC in 1880 and D.D. in 1886. He became an ordained Presbyterian Minister in 1883 and professor of Latin and Greek as well as Pastor in NC, AL, and Nashville TN (1898-1901). He served as the Secretary to the Board of the Colored Evangelization of the South from 1889 to 1898. He served on several other Boards related to Southern Presbyterian Missions and published a Geography of Palestine in 1904. He was also the author of the Manual of Graded Instruction in 1902, Call of the Home Land in 1906, and the Teacher Training Course (Vol. 1) in 1909. His final home was Richmond VA, where he died after 1909.