Lithograph of W. H. McIntosh. 1881. W. H. McIntosh was born in McIntosh County, Georgia, on April 4, 1811. He was a graduate of Furman Institution, South Carolina. McIntosh was licensed to preach by the Sunberry Baptist church; the South Newport church later ordained him in 1836. He was the pastor at Darien beginning in 1838, and he remained there until accepting a pastorate in Eufaula, Alabama, in 1849. There he remained until becoming pastor at the Siloam church in Marion in 1855. McIntosh received a Doctor of Divinity degree from two institutions in 1868: Columbian College in Washington, D.C., and Baylor University in Texas. He moved once again in 1872 to Macon, Georgia, to accept a pastorship there, which he held for three years. In 1875 he was hired as the corresponding secretary of the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, which took back to Marion, Alabama. McIntosh died on April 22, 1890. JPG file (322 KB)
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