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Portraits of Some Baptist Leaders
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Date: 1881 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of George T. Day. 1881. George T. Day was born in 1822. He was actively involved in the General Conference of Freewill Baptists. Writer of Baptist publications and editor of the "Star." Within the General Conference, he served as president of the Anti-Slavery Society in 1862 and presi... -
Date: 1923 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of William. E. Penn. 1923. He was born August 11, 1832 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. In 1952 he became a lawyer. He served as a Major in the Confederate Army. A Texas layman, he began itinerant preaching in the 1870s, and is considered the first full-time Southern Baptist evangelist... -
Date: 1923 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of Annie Luther Bagby. 1923. Annie Luther Bagby, born in 1859, was the first Texas foreign missionary. She married William B. Bagby, who became the second foreign missionary. Beginning in 1881, they served as missionaries with the Foreign Missionary Board of the Southern Baptist Conven... -
Date: 1881 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of John Milton. 1881. On December 9, 1608, John Milton was born in London, England. He studied at the University of Cambridge for seven years. Milton is most famous for Paradise Lost, published in 1667. He outlined his religious beliefs in his Treatise on Christian Doctrine, which a... -
Date: 1908 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 1899-1... -
Date: 1923 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of Manson Horatio Wolfe. 1923. Manson Horatio Wolfe was born in Wolfe City, TX on December 10, 1866. He was a cotton exporter and banker. He served as the Vice President of the Southern Baptist Convention and the Director of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. (bio taken from page... -
Date: 1881 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of Abel Morgan. 1881. On April 18, 1713, Abel Morgan was born at Welsh Tract, Delaware. He was baptized at the age of 20 and ordained soon thereafter. In 1739 he was placed in charge of a church in Middletown, New Jersey, where he remained until his death. Morgan strongly defended b... -
Date: 1881 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of Christmas Evans. 1881. Christmas Evans was born in Wales on Christmas Day, 1766. He taught himself to read using his Welsh Bible. After becoming convinced of the Baptist doctrine of baptism, Evans was baptized in 1788 in the river Duar. He devoted his entire life to the region ar... -
Date: 1881 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of Francis Wayland. 1881. Born in New York City, March 11, 1796. He graduated from Union College where he completed his medical studies. In 1816 he entered the Andover Theological Seminary, and in 1821 was called to pastor the First Baptist church in Boston. In 1827, he became presiden... -
Date: 1881 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of William Kiffin. 1881. During the year 1616, William Kiffin was born in London. He joined the Baptist church in 1638. When that church established a new church in Devonshire Square in 1640, Kiffin was elected pastor. He held that position for 61 years. Kiffin was arrested many ti...