Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Battle, Rev. Henry W., the gifted young pastor at Columbus, Miss., belongs to a distinguished family in the South, being a son of Maj.-Gen. Cullen A. Battle, and a nephew of A. J. Battle, D.D., president of Mercer University. He was born in Tuskegee, Ala., in 1855, and admitted to the practice…
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Jim Curran (1) Facebook 08/31/22 · Daily Baptist EncyclopediaBattle, Elisha.—The ancestor of the large andinfluential family of Battles in North Carolina,Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, was born inNansemond Cc., Va., Jan. 9, 1723. In 1748 heremoved to Tar River, Edgecombe Co., N. C.;joined the Baptist church, known as Falls of TarRiver, in 1764, of which he was a…
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Jim Curran Baptist Church History Facebook Admin · 3h · Daily Baptist EncyclopediaBattle, Rev. Archibald J., D.D., president of Mercer University, Macon, Ga., was born at Pow- elton, Hancock Co., Ga., Sept. 10, 1826. When ten years of age he moved to Alabama with his father, Dr. Cullen Battle, where he was baptized in 1839, and where he graduated…
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Jim Curran Facebook Admin · 9h · Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Bath, Rev. Levi, was born in Unadilla, N. Y.; died at Columbus, Wis., March 4, 1876, aged fifty- seven years. He was educated at Poultney, Vt., and at Union College, New York. He held pastorates in Grass Lake, Danville, and other places in Michigan. In 1861 he came to…
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Jim Curran | Facebook Admin · 08/27/22 · Daily Baptist Encyclopedia Bates, Samuel P., LL.D., was born in Mendon, Mass., and educated at Brown University, grad- uating in 1851. He was baptized into the fellow- ship of the First church, in Providence, R. I., by the Rey. James M. Granger in 1849. In 1852 he transferred his membership to…
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