Chaudoin, Rev. W. N.—William Nowell Chaudoin is of French descent on his father’s side, being great-grandson of Francis Chaudoin, a Huguenot, who brought the name to this continent.

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Chaudoin, Rev. W. N.—William Nowell Chaudoin is of French descent on his father’s side, being great-grandson of Francis Chaudoin, a Huguenot, who brought the name to this continent. His father and grandfather, and some of his more remote relatives, were Baptist ministers. Mr. Chaudoin was born in Robertson Co., Tenn., Aug. 10, 1829; was converted in his sixteenth year, and baptized by Rev. William F. Luck, in Davidson Co., Tenn. Two years after he commenced to preach, and was ordained by W. S. Baldry, W. D. Baldwin, and William Brumberlow, in Davidson County. While laboring in Nashville, Tenn., he contracted a cough that has baffled all efforts to eure. This led to his removal to the State of Georgia, in 1857, and also to his leaving the pasto- rate, in 1869, and entering as missionary agent, the service of the Ilome Mission Board, then called the Domestic Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. In that capacity he has labored partly in Florida each year since 1872, and now his labors are nearly all in that State, as a missionary and as editor of the Florida department of the Christian Index, of Georgia. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart photo from findagrave