Rev. B. W., LL.D., an active and zealous worker in the: Louisiana Association, was born in South Carolina, and is about fifty years of age.

Baptist Church History Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Post by Jim Curran

  · Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Post by Jim Curran Blakewood, Rev. B. W., LL.D., an active and zealous worker in the: Louisiana Association, was born in South Carolina, and is about fifty years of age. After a literary course he studied medicine in Philadelphia and New York, and was offered the chair of Surgery in Oglethorpe Medical Col- lege. Subsequently he graduated in law at Har- vard University. He came to Louisiana about the year 1850 as a Baptist, having been immersed in Georgia in 1849. He settled on Bayou de Glaise, and became an active promoter of the cause of the Baptists. He has filled many important positions, —moderator of Louisiana Association, vice-presi- dent of the Baptist State Convention, president of the State Sunday-School Convention, and a mem- ber of the Legislature. A few years ago Dr. Black- wood was ordained to the ministry, and is zeal- ously devoting himself to the work. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart