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Date: 1881 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of Henry Jessey. 1881. Henry Jessey was born on September 3, 1601, in West Routon, Yorkshire, England. At 17 he entered St. John’s College in Cambridge, where he remained six years. Jessey then served as a chaplain for nine years in Assington, Suffolk. In 1627 he received Episcopal ... -
Date: 1881 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of Jeremiah Bell Jeter. 1881. Jeremiah Bell Jeter was born in Bedford County, Virginia, on July 18, 1802. Immediately after his baptism in December of 1821, he began to preach. In 1823 Jeter helped organize the Baptist General Association of Virginia. On May 4, 1824, he was ordained... -
Date: 1881 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of Samuel Jones. 1881. On January 14, 1735, Samuel Jones was born in Glamorganshire, Wales. At the age of 2, his parents moved to America. He graduated from the College of Philadelphia in 1762. The next year he was ordained and became pastor of the Lower Dublin Baptist Church, where... -
Date: 1923 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of Zachary C. Taylor. 1923. Zachary C. Taylor was born in 1851. He graduated from Baylor University and was ordained to the ministry in 1879. Z. C. Taylor and his wife Kate served as Southern Baptist missionaries to Brazil. Together, with fellow missionaries William B. and Anne Luther ... -
Date: 1923 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of William B. Bagby. 1923. William B. Bagby was born in 1855. He and his wife, Annie Luther Bagby, were the first Texas foreign missionaries. Beginning in 1881, they served as Southern Baptist missionaries in Brazil for over 40 years. He died in 1939. JPG file (309 KB) -
Date: 1923 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of J. L. Ward. 1923. J.L. Ward was pastor of the Baptist Church of Decatur, Texas. He served as president of Decatur Baptist College from 1900-1907, and then again in 1914. JPG file (173 KB) -
Date: 1920 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Drawing of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. 1920. On June 19, 1834, Charles Haddon Spurgeon was born at Kelvedon, Essex, England. At an early age he moved to Stambourne to live with his grandfather, a pastor. He was saved on December 15, 1850, and he was baptized on May 3, 1851. The next year he assum... -
Date: 1923 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of Mary T. Gambrell. 1923. She was married to James B. Gambrell. She held the office Corresponding Secretary of the Woman's Missionary Union of the Baptist General Convention of Texas from 1897 to 1911. She died in January 1911. JPG file (320 KB) -
Date: 1923 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of Lee Rutland Scarborough. 1923. Lee Rutland Scarborough was born on July 4, 1870, in Colfax, Louisiana. During his early childhood his family moved to Texas. At 22 he received his A.B. from Baylor University. After graduation he taught at Baylor for one year, before teaching in pu... -
Date: 1923 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of James B. Gambrell. 1923. James B. Gambrell was born in Anderson, South Carolina, on August 21, 1841. He was ordained to Baptist ministry in 1867. Married Mary T. Gambrell. Editor of the Baptist Record for 15 years. President of Mercer University, Georgia for 3 years. Active in the A...