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Creator: Perry, Beth and Strickland, Michael Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of A. Judson Rowland. 1881. A. Judson Rowland was born in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, on February 9, 1840. He was baptized on January 6, 1858. After graduating from the university at Lewisburg in 1862, Rowland was ordained, after which he served as a military chaplain for a year. In 1863 he entered Rochester Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1866. After graduating he served as pastor of the Mount Auburn church in Cincinnati, Ohio, until 1868 when he became the president of the Mount Auburn Institute. After two years, he became pastor of the First Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Following two more years, he became pastor of the Tenth Church in Philadelphia. In 1880 Rowland received a Doctor of Divinity degree from the University at Lewisburg. He died in 1920. JPG file (322 KB) -
Creator: Strickland, Michael and Perry, Beth Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of Abel Morgan. 1881. On April 18, 1713, Abel Morgan was born at Welsh Tract, Delaware. He was baptized at the age of 20 and ordained soon thereafter. In 1739 he was placed in charge of a church in Middletown, New Jersey, where he remained until his death. Morgan strongly defended believer’s baptism in speech and written word until his death on November 24, 1785. JPG file (340 KB) -
Creator: Perry, Beth and Strickland, Michael Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of Adoniram Judson. 1881. On August 9, 1788, Adoniram Judson was born in Malden, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brown University in 1807 and later graduated from Andover Theological Institution. In 1810 he decided to be a foreign missionary. Along with his fellow students, Newell, Nott, Hall, and Rice, Judson was appointed missionary to India by the London Missionary Society. On the way to India, Judson’s views on baptism changed; therefore, he was properly immersed in believer’s baptism upon arrival in India in 1812. Due to hostility from the East India Company, he moved to Rangoon. After learning the Burmese language, Judson devoted himself to translating the scripture. His wife, Ann Hasseltine Judson, died in 1826. Judson finished his translation of scripture in 1834, the same year he married his second wife. After she became ill in 1845, the Judsons began the return trip to America. She died during the trip. After a short stay in America, Judson returned to India with a third wife. There he continued his work on a Burmese dictionary, which was left uncompleted due to his death on April 8, 1850. JPG file (319 KB) -
Creator: Perry, Beth and Strickland, Michael Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of Albert Henry Newman. 1881. Albert Henry Newman was born in Edgefield, South Carolina, on August 25, 1852. He was baptized in 1868 and entered Mercer University the next year. In 1872 he entered Rochester Theological Seminary. Newman also spent a year at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, beginning in 1875. After serving as a church history professor at Rochester Theological Seminary for some time, in 1880 he became the “Pettengill Professor of Church History.” He also worked for a time in the Toronto Theological Seminary. He died on June 4, 1933. JPG file (349 KB) -
Creator: Strickland, Michael and Perry, Beth Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of Andrew Broaddus. 1855. On November 4, 1770, Andrew Broaddus was born in Carolina County, Virginia. He was converted at the age of 18 and baptized into the local Baptist church on May 28, 1789. He was ordained on October 16, 1791. During his life Broaddus pastored several churches throughout Virginia. He also wrote many works, beginning his literary career at 25. He died on December 1, 1848. (page 138 of: The Baptist Encyclopaedia A Dictionary of the Doctrines, Ordinances, Usages, Confessions of Faith, Sufferings, Labors, and Successes, and of the General History of the Baptist Denomination in all Lands. With Numerous Biographical Sketches of Distinguished American and Foreign Baptists, and a Supplement. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1881) JPG file (324 KB) -
Creator: Perry, Beth and Strickland, Michael Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of Andrew Fuller. 1881. Andrew Fuller was born on February 6, 1754 in Wicken, Cambridgeshire, England. He was baptized in 1770. In 1775, Fuller was ordained pastor of the church of Soham. In 1782, Fuller moved again to Kettering, Northamptonshire. There, in 1792, he helped form the Baptist Missionary Society, of which he was the first secretary. He adamantly supported William Carey, who was sent by the society to India. Fuller was a prolific writer and was well known in England and America. Most of his beliefs were Calvinistic. He declined two honorary doctoral degrees: one from Princeton in 1798 and one from Yale in 1805. Fuller died on May 7, 1815. JPG file (343 KB) -
Creator: Perry, Beth and Strickland, Michael Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of Ann Hasseltine Judson. 1881. Ann Hasseltine Judson was born in Bradford, Massachusetts, on December 22, 1789. She was educated at the local academy and was converted at age 16. In 1810 she met Adoniram Judson; in 1812 they were married. She was baptized by immersion with her husband. Along with her husband, she learned the local language. In 1821 she became ill and returned to America; during her stay she wrote an account of the Burmese mission. She sailed back to India in 1823, where she died on October 24, 1826. JPG file (331 KB) -
Creator: Perry, Beth and Strickland, Michael Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of Augustus Hopkins Strong. 1881. On August 3, 1836, Augustus H. Strong was born in Rochester, New York. He was converted and baptized in his junior year of college. After graduating from Yale College in 1857, he entered the Rochester Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1859. Following graduation Strong pursued studies at various German universities and traveled throughout Europe and the East. He was ordained pastor of the First Baptist Church of Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1861. Four years later he became the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Cleveland, Ohio, during which he received an honorary D.D. from Brown University. In 1872 he left Ohio to become president of the Rochester Theological Seminary and Professor of Theology. He died on November 29, 1921. JPG file (309 KB) -
Creator: Strickland, Michael and Perry, Beth Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of Augustus Rauschenbusch. 1881. On February 13, 1816, Augustus Rauschenbusch was born in Altena, Westphalia, Germany. At the age of 15 he entered the gymnasium at Elberfeld, from which he graduated at 19 and entered the University of Berlin. At 20 he became a believer. When Rauschenbusch’s father, a Lutheran minister, died in 1841, his congregation called on Augustus Rauschenbusch to be his successor. In 1846 he immigrated to America to minister to German Americans. He was baptized into the Baptist faith in 1850. The next year he preached throughout parts of Canada, starting some of the first Baptist churches there. Rauschenbusch settled in Missouri in 1854. The next year he organized the German Baptist Church in Gasconade County, Missouri, in which he preached. In 1858 he took charge of the German department at the Theological Seminary at Rochester, New York. JPG file (360 KB) -
Creator: Perry, Beth and Strickland, Michael Contributing Institution: Mercer University Atlanta Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library Description: Lithograph of B. H. Carroll. 1881. During December 1843, B. H. Carroll was born in Carroll County, Mississippi. He moved to Texas around 1860. Carroll served in the army of the Confederate States, where he was wounded in 1864. In 1865 he was converted, and was ordained in 1866. He was educated at Baylor University. At various times, Carroll served as Vice President of the Baptist General Association of Texas, Vice President from Texas on the Domestic Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, pastor of First Baptist Church of Waco, Texas, and the associate editor of the Texas Baptist. He died on November 11, 1914. JPG file (347 KB)