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Date: 1881 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of George Ripley Bliss. 1881. George Ripley Bliss was born in Sherburne, New York, on June 20, 1816. In 1838 he graduated from Madison University; two years later he graduated from Hamilton Theological Seminary. Bliss pastored the Baptist church in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 1849... -
Date: 1881 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of James Pettigru Boyce. 1881. On January 11, 1827, James Pettigru Boyce was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He attended Charleston College for two years before entering Brown University, from which he graduated in 1847. Upon being baptized in 1846, Boyce joined with the First Ba... -
Date: 1881 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of David Benedict. 1881. David Benedict was born on October 10, 1779 in Norwalk, Connecticut. He was converted at the age of twenty. In 1806 he graduated from Brown University and later served on their Board of Trustees. Benedict pastored the Baptist church in Pawtucket, Rhode Islan... -
Date: 1881 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of Martin Cheney. 1881. Martin Cheney was born in 1792. He was actively involved in the General Conference of Freewill Baptists. He died in Olneyville, Rhode Island, on January 4, 1852, aged 59 years. JPG file (361 KB) -
Date: 1923 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of Amzi Clarence Dixon. 1923. On July 6, 1854 Amzi Clarence Dixon was born in Shelby, North Carolina. He graduated from Wake Forest College at the age of nineteen. During his senior year there he was called to preach. He pastored two country churches before entering Southern Baptist... -
Date: 1923 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of Henry Allen Tupper. 1923. Henry Allen Tupper was born in Georgia on June 26, 1856. He was a student at the University of Virginia, Richmond, before graduating from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1879. Tupper was ordained the same year. He served in numerous pulpits over... -
Date: 1923 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of Bernard Washington Spilman. 1923. On January 22, 1871, Bernard Washington Spilman was born in Weldon, North Carolina. He was baptized in 1883, licensed to preach in 1887, and ordained in 1891. He graduated form Wake Forest College in 1891. After entering Southern Baptist Theologi... -
Date: 1923 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of John Roach Straton. 1923. On April 6, 1875, John Roach Straton was born in Evansville, Indiana. He was converted in 1892. In 1898 he graduated from Mercer University. He was ordained in 1900, the same year he entered Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In 1903 Straton became ... -
Date: 1923 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Photograph of Monroe Elmon Dodd. 1923. Monroe Elmon Dodd was born in Brazil, Tennessee, on September 8, 1878. He was ordained in April 1902, while a student at Union University, from which he graduated in 1904. Later in life he would receive three D.D. degrees: from Clinton College in 1908, fr... -
Date: 1881 Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of Hosea Quinby. 1881. Hosea Quinby was born in 1804. Actively involved in the General Conference of Freewill Baptists, Hosea Quinby was a pioneer educator of the denomination. He died in Acton, Maine, on October 11, 1878, aged 74 years. JPG file (451 KB)