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Creator: Strickland, Michael and Perry, Beth Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of William Jonathan Northen. 1908. Born in Jones County, Georgia, on July 9, 1835. Graduate of Mercer University. An educator and teacher. He served as Governor of Georgia for two terms, from 1890-1894. In 1895 he was elected president of the Georgia Baptist Convention, and from 1899-1901, held the office of president of the Southern Baptist Convention. He died March 25, 1913. JPG file (616 KB) -
Creator: Perry, Beth and Strickland, Michael Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of John Richard Sampey. 1917. John Richard Sampey was born on September 27, 1863, at Fort Deposit, Alabama. Three months after his birth, his family moved to Ramer. He entered Howard College at 16 and graduated at 18. Sampey was the youngest to ever graduate from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, at 21 years old. Following his graduation in 1885, Sampey received the dual honors of ordination at the Forks of Elkhorn Baptist Church and selection to be instructor in Hebrew, Greek, and Homiletics. Two years later he was made assistant professor. About this time he also received an honorary D.D. from Washington and Lee University. In 1892 Sampey was selected to succeed Basil Manly as Professor of Old Testament Interpretation. He later succeeded Dr. Broadus as the chairman of the Old Testament Lessons subcommittee of the International Lesson Committee. He died on August 18, 1946. JPG file (138 KB) -
Creator: Perry, Beth and Strickland, Michael Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of Ann Hasseltine Judson. 1881. Ann Hasseltine Judson was born in Bradford, Massachusetts, on December 22, 1789. She was educated at the local academy and was converted at age 16. In 1810 she met Adoniram Judson; in 1812 they were married. She was baptized by immersion with her husband. Along with her husband, she learned the local language. In 1821 she became ill and returned to America; during her stay she wrote an account of the Burmese mission. She sailed back to India in 1823, where she died on October 24, 1826. JPG file (331 KB) -
Creator: Strickland, Michael and Perry, Beth Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of Archibald Thomas Robertson. 1917. On November 6, 1863, Archibald Thomas Robertson was born in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. In 1875 his father moved the family to Statesville, North Carolina. At the age of 13, Robertson was converted and felt the call to preach. He graduated from Wake Forest College in 1885 with a MA degree, and he graduated from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1888. He was ordained the year he graduated. Also, Robertson was elected to be Assistant Instructor of New Testament Interpretation. In 1892 he became Professor of Biblical Introduction, and in 1895 he succeeded John A. Broadus as Professor of the Interpretation of the New Testament. He published a multitude of works, perhaps the most significant being his Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research, published in 1914. Robertson died September 24, 1934. JPG file (159 KB) -
Creator: Perry, Beth and Strickland, Michael Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of Joseph Martin Dawson. 1917. Joseph Martin Dawson was born in Ellis County, Texas, on June 21, 1879. He received his bachelor’s degree from Baylor University. In 1900 he was ordained in the First Baptist Church of Waco, and soon began serving as pastor of churches. He founded and edited the Southwestern Theological Review, which later merged into the Review and Expositor. In 1905 he became pastor of the Baptist church in Lampasas. Dawson also served as editor of the Baptist Standard for a year beginning in 1907. After serving as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Hillsboro starting in 1908 and the First Baptist Church in Temple starting in 1912, Dawson settled into the pastorate of the First Baptist Church in Waco, where he had received his ordination some time earlier. JPG file (157 KB) -
Creator: Perry, Beth and Strickland, Michael Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of John Benjamin Lawrence. 1917. On July 10, 1875, John Benjamin Lawrence was born in Rankin County, Mississippi. He was converted at the age of thirteen and ordained ten years later. While he was at Mississippi College he pastored many country churches. Lawrence received his BA degree in 1899, married Helen Alford in 1900, and received his MA degree in 1901. Following graduation he pastored the church at Greenwood before moving to Tennessee, where he pastored the Brownsville Church and the Humboldt Church. Then he moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was a pastor, the Corresponding Secretary for the State Convention Board of Louisiana, and the editor of the Baptist Chronicle. In 1912 Lawrence moved back to Mississippi to pastor the First Church of Columbus. While there he was elected Corresponding Secretary of the Baptist State Convention Board of Mississippi. He died on September 5, 1968. JPG file (171 KB) -
Creator: Strickland, Michael and Perry, Beth Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of Robert Lee Robinson. 1920. On July 20, 1874, Robert Lee Robinson was born in Hampton County, South Carolina. He was converted on October 17, 1893, and was baptized the next day. Robinson was educated in public schools, in which he taught for five years after graduating. He served in the army during the Spanish-American War. After working in the insurance business for five years, Robinson felt God’s call on his life and he entered Mercer University in 1907. He took classes at both Mercer University and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, eventually graduating from Mercer in 1910. Soon after graduating he was ordained and entered the pastorate of the Conyers Baptist Church. While there he also pastored the Stone Mountain Church. In 1916 he began the pastorates at Woodville and Union Point. JPG file (187 KB) -
Creator: Strickland, Michael and Perry, Beth Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of T. Bronson Ray. 1920. T. Bronson Ray was born on August 14, 1868, in Buckeye, Kentucky. In 1882 Ray converted and was baptized. He entered Georgetown College, Kentucky, in 1891. Two years later he was ordained and became pastor of Clear Creek Baptist Church in Kentucky. When Ray graduated from Georgetown College in 1895, he entered Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1898. After graduation, Ray accepted the pastorate of the Immanuel Baptist Church of Nashville, Tennessee. He was very active in the Southern Baptist Convention and the Tennessee Baptist Convention. In 1906 Ray was elected as Educational Secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of Richmond, Virginia. He received a D.D. from Georgetown in1909. At the creation of the Judson Centennial Fund, Ray was entrusted to be the leader of the campaign. He died on January 15, 1934. JPG file (174 KB) -
Creator: Perry, Beth and Strickland, Michael Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of John William Porter. 1920. John William Porter was born on August 8, 1863 in Fayette County, Tennessee. He was educated under private tutors to prepare him for the University of Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Mississippi, Porter attended the Lebanon Law College in Tennessee. In 1889 he was converted and baptized. The next year he was ordained and began pastoring area churches. When Porter began attending the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, he continued pastoring area churches. He was pastor of the church at Pewee Valley and LaGrange, Kentucky, from 1894-1898. In 1908 he became the pastor of the First Baptist Church at Lexington, Kentucky. He died on September 7, 1937. JPG file (166 KB) -
Creator: Perry, Beth and Strickland, Michael Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of John Leland. 1881. John Leland was born in Grafton, Massachusetts, on May 14, 1754. He was converted in 1774. Later the church in Mount Poney, Culpepper County, Virginia, where he had been attending, ordained him. He led innumerable revivals throughout Virginia. When he felt he had exhausted his work in Virginia, he moved back to Massachusetts. There he continued to preach until his death on January 14, 1841. JPG file (347 KB)