Carson, W. B., D.D., was born in Pickens Oo., S. C., Dec. 14, 1821. Mr. Carson took an unusually extensive course in the academical institution in Wetumpka, Ala.

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Carson, W. B., D.D., was born in Pickens Oo., S. C., Dec. 14, 1821. Mr. Carson took an unusually extensive course in the academical institution in Wetumpka, Ala. He joined the Presbyterian Church, the denomination of his ancestors, at eighteen. In 1849 he entered the theological seminary in Columbia, 8. C., but after a very thorough investigation of the subject of baptism, he was baptized by James P. Boyce, D.D., LL.D. After he graduated he spent six years as pastor in Gillisonville, Beaufort District, now Hampton Co., S. C., where the society combined high culture, integrity, and piety in an uncommon degree. ‘In 1859 he became editor of the Southern Baptist, in Charleston, 8. C., which position he occupied until the war caused the suspension of the paper. During this period its circulation greatly increased. Although opposed to secession, he went with his native State. He volunteered as a private but was soon after made a chaplain. He, however, always went into the ranks in battle. After the war he was for two years principal of the State Academy at Reidville, Spartanburg Oo., S. C., and for the same period of the Gowensville Seminary in Greenville County. In 1873 the Furman University conferred upon him the title of D.D. He is at present pastor of the old Kirkland, now Smyrna, church, in Barnwell Co., 8. C. He has written somewhat extensively for papers and reviews. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart