There are nearly 600 bios in this section; there are several bios of some, as well as some of their writings:
____________ Adams, George F. - Anderson, R. T. - Angus, Joseph - Armitage, Thomas - Asplund, John - Backus, Isaac - Bainbridge, Peter - Baldwin, Thomas - Barrow, David - Beaman, Roy O. - Benedict, David - Black, J. D. - The Boardmans - George Dana & Sr. - Booth, Abraham - Bower, Jacob - Boyce, James P. - Brantly, W. T. - Breaker, J. M. C. - Broaddus, Andrew - Broadus, John A. - Brong, Rosco - Brower, Jacob - Buck, William C. - Buckner, Henry Ireland - Caperton, A. C. - Carey, William - Carpenter, C. H. - Carroll, B. H. - Carroll, J. M. - Castleberry, Van Boone - Cathcart, William - Chaudoin, William N. - Christian, John T. - Clarke, John - Cole, C. D. - Coleman, James S. - Comer, John - Cone, Spencer H. - Conner, Lewis - Craig, Elijah, Lewis and Joseph - Crawford, T. P. and Martha - Criswell, W. A. - Dayton, A. C. - Dillard, Ryland T. - Dixon, A. C. - Dobbs, C. E. W. - Doyle, David - Dudley, Ambrose and Thomas P. - Dudley, Richard M. - Dunbar, Duncan - Dunlevy, Francis - Dunster, Henry - Eaton, T. T. - Edmonds, Justin O. - Edwards, Morgan - Evans, Christmas - Everts, W. W.
Ferrill, London - Ferris, Ezra - Ford, Reuben - Ford, Samuel H. - Fristoe, Robert - Fuller, Andrew - Gano, John and Stephen - Gardner, W. W. - Gifford, Andrew - Gill, John - Gillette, A. D. - Goddard, Josiah - Going, Jonathan - Graves, Absalom - Graves, Alfred C. - Graves, J. R. - Grigg, Jacob - Grime, J. H. - Hall, J. N. - Harriss, Samuel - Hart, Oliver - Hartwell, Jesse Boardman - Hawthorne, James B. - Haycraft, Samuel - Henderson , Thomas - Hickman, William - Holcombe, Henry - Holman, Jesse - Holmes, Obadiah - Howell, R. B. C. - Ireland, James - Jeter, Jeremiah B. - Jewell, William - Jolly, James M. - Judson, Adoniram - Kazee, Buell H. - Kerfoot, Franklin H. - Kiffin, William - Kirtley, James A. - Kirtley, Robert - Lane, Dutton - Lane, Tidence - Lasher, George W. - Leland, John - Lynd, Samuel W.
Mallary, Charles D. - Manly, Basil, Sr. and Jr. - Manning, James - Maple, Joseph C. - Marshall, Daniel - Marshman, Joshua - Marshman, John - Matton, Charles Hiram - McCoy, Isaac - Mercer, Jesse - Moody, J. B. - Morgan, Abel - Myles, John - Noel, Silas M. - Norris, J. Frank - Nowlin, William Dudley - Pearce, Samuel - Peck, John Mason - Pendleton, James Madison - Murrow, J. S. - Poindexter, A. M. - Porter, J. W. - Ragland, George - Ray, David B. - Read, James - Redding, Joseph - Rhees, Morgan John - Rice, John - Rice, Luther - Riley, William B. - Roberts, Issachar J. - Robinson, Ezekiel G. - Rone, Wendell - Ross, Reuben - Rowland, A. Judson - Ryland, Robert
Saker, Alfred - Scott, Moses - Screven, William - Sears, A. D. - Semple, Robert B. - Shields, T. T. - Shuck, Henrietta Hall - Shuck, Jehu Lewis - Smith, Green Clay - Smith, Hezekiah - Smith, John - Spencer, John H. - Stearns, Shubael - Stevens, John - Suggett, James - Tanner, John - Tarrant, Carter - Taylor, A. S. - Taylor, Alfred - Taylor, H. Boyce - Taylor, John - Thomas, Jesse B. - Tichenor, Isaac Taylor - Tucker, Henry Holcombe - Vaughan, Joshua - Vaughan, William - Vickers, Moses - Walker, Clarence - Waller, George - Waller, John - Waller, John L. - Wayland, Francis - Welch, James Ely - Werden, Peter - Whitsitt, William - Williams, Alvin Peter - Willis, Joseph - Wood, John Henry - Wood, W. A. M. - Yeaman, W. Pope - (latest addition - 5.6.2009).
There are also bios from Elkhorn Association (KY), Long Run Association (KY), Northbend Association (KY), Sandy Creek Association, NC (13); and Estill County, KY (39); seventeen from Grassy Creek Baptist Church and nineteen from Semple's Virginia Baptists.
Additionally thirty-two brief Illinois bios; fifty-four from Ohio & more early Ohio and more early Ohio. Also from Spencer's Kentucky Baptists: vol. 1; and sixty-seven Missouri bios from Duncan's history. Early Oklahoma bios here. There are also seventeen bios by Ben Bogard here. Thirty-three short North Carolina bios. Also see under Boone County (KY), and the British section. Added (on 3.27.09) are more than twenty KY Emancipationist Baptist bios here.
Rev. George F. Adams, D. D.
Early Maryland Baptist Minister
Added - 5.15.09Biographical Sketch of
Rev. Robert T. Anderson
Early Western KY & TN Preacher
By Rev. A. D. Sears, 1859
Joseph Angus
British Baptist Minister, Historian and Educator
By Thomas Armitage, 1890
Thomas Armitage, D.D.
Pastor and Historian
A bio and an essay
John Asplund
Early Swedish/American Historian
There are two bios.
Isaac Backus
Early New England Preacher and Historian
Three Bios and two Circular Letters
Peter Bainbridge
Early Kentucky Baptist Preacher and Physician
There are two bios.
Thomas Baldwin
Colonial New England Baptist Minister
David Barrow
VA & KY Baptist Emancipationist
Roy O. Beaman
Baptist Minsister and Teacher
David Benedict
Early Baptist Minister and Historian
J. D. Black
Early Central KY Minister
By J. H. Spencer, 1885
The Boardmans - Father and Son
George Dana Boardman, D. D. & Sr.
Early Baptist Pastor / Foreign Missionary
The Baptist Encyclopedia, 1881
James Pettigru Boyce, D. D., LL.D.
Baptist Minister and Educator
Three bios, two essays and grave-marker
Rev. Abraham BoothBritish Baptist Pastor and Author
Two bios and five of his books
W. T. Brantly
Early Baptist Minister and Editor
By Elder William Brantly, (his son)
J. M. C. Breaker
Early Southern Pastor and Writer
There are three bios and an essay.
Rev. Andrew Broaddus
Early Virginia Baptist Minister
Two bios and a sermon.
John A. Broadus
Early Baptist Minister and Educator
Four bios, 7 sermons, 8 essays, 2 letters & gravemarker
Rosco Brong
Baptist Minister and Teacher
Bio, Sermons & SS Lessons
Jacob Brower
Illinois Frontier Baptist Preacher
A Link
William C. Buck
Early Kentucky Baptist Leader
Spencer's A History of Kentucky Baptists
Henry Ireland Buckner
Early Baptist Indian Missionary
S. H. Ford, 1859
A. C. Caperton
Early Baptist Minister and Editor
There are two bios.
William Carey
First Foreign Baptist Missionary
There are three bios.
C. H. Carpenter
Early Baptist Missionary to Burmah
The Baptist Encyclopedia
B. H. Carroll
Early Texas Baptist Preacher and Educator
There are three bios, three sermons and five essays.
James Milton [J. M.] Carroll. D. D.
Early Texas Baptist Preacher and Historian
Baptist Biography, 1920
Added. 4.9.09Van Boone Castleberry
Baptist Minister
William Cathcart
Editor of The Baptist Encyclopedia
William Nowell Chaudoin
Early TN/GA Baptist Minister
by Joseph H. Borum, 1880
John T. Christian
Baptist Minister and Historian
By Ben M. Bogard
John Clarke and the Baptists of Newport, R. I.
By Albert H. Newman, 1894
C. D. Cole
Baptist Pastor and Writer
By Ben Stratton
James S. Coleman
Western Kentucky Pastor and Leader
There are two bios and a sermon.
John Comer
Early Rhode Island Baptist Minister
Spencer H. Cone
Early New York City Baptist Pastor
There are three bios.
Info added. 12.3.08Lewis Conner
Baptist Minister (KY)
Two bios.
The Craigs: Elijah, Joseph and Lewis
Kentucky Frontier Baptist Brothers
Tarlton Perry [T. P.] Crawford
and Martha Foster Crawford
Early Baptist Missionaries to China
Bios and Memoirs
W. A. Criswell
Texas Baptist Minister and Leader
By Jerry Hopkins
7.3.08
A. C. Dayton
Early Baptist Leader and Writer
There are two bios and an essay.
A document added - 4.18.09. Ryland T. Dillard
Early Central Kentucky Frontier Preacher
Three bios and two Circular Letters
Added - 9.31.09. A. C. Dixon
Baptist Fundamentalist
By Gerald Priest
A Link
An Essay added.Dr. C. E. W. Dobbs
Early Kentucky Baptist Leader
David Doyle
Early Missouri Baptist MissionaryBy Samuel H. Ford
Ambrose Dudley and Sons
Early Central Kentucky Frontier Preachers
Richard M. Dudley
Early Baptist Minister and Educator
Rev. Duncan Dunbar
Early New York Pastor
Two bios
Judge Francis Dunlevy
Early Baptist Leader in Southern Ohio
By A. H. Dunlevy (His son)
Henry Dunster
First President of Harvard
By Nathan Wood, 1899
Bio added 5.18.09T. T. Eaton
Baptist Leader
Three bios and two essays.
Justin O. Edmonds
Baptist Minister
By Thomas W. Haynes, 1848
Morgan Edwards
First American Baptist Historian
Three bios and two of his State Baptist history notebooks.
Christmas Evans
Early Welsh Baptist Preacher
The Baptist Encyclopedia, 1881
W. W. Everts
Spencer's A History of Kentucky Baptists
London Ferrill
African-American Baptist in Early Kentucky
There are two bios.
Elder Ezra Ferris
Early Southern Indiana Baptist Pastor
There are two bios and an index of his essays.
Reuben Ford
Early Virginia Baptist Minister
By James B. Taylor, 1859
A bio added. Samuel H. Ford
There are three bios and an index of his essays.
Robert Fristoe
Early Tennessee Baptist Preacher
By J. J. Burnett
Andrew Fuller
Early English Baptist Minister
Memoir, a Bio, Circular Letters, Sermons & more.
John Gano
There are a total of fourteen documents.
Stephen Gano
Early American Baptist Minister
Rev. W. W. Gardner, D.D.
Early Kentucky Pastor and Educator
By Martin H. Smith, A. M., 1875
Dr. Andrew Gifford
Eighteenth Century Baptist Minister
Two bios
Dr. John Gill
Early British Minister and Theologian
There are two bios.
A. D. Gillette, D.D.
Early Baptist Minister and Historian
The Baptist Encyclopedia, 1881
Rev. Josiah Goddard
Early Baptist China Missionary
The Baptist Encyclopedia, 1881
Jonathan Going, D. D.
Baptist Minister, Missionary and Educator
The Baptist Encyclopedia, 1881
Absalom Graves
Early Boone County, KY Baptist Leader
Three bios and three Circular Letters he wrote
A bio added.Alfred C. Graves
Baptist Minister and editor
Essay added - 5.6.09J. R. [James Robinson] Graves
Baptist Editor and Minister
There are five bios, a book of 12 sermons + essays.
Bio added - 3.24.09Elder Jacob Grigg
Early Emancipationist Baptist Minister
Two Bios & Circular Letter
J. H. Grime
Recollections of a Long Life, 1930
Early Tennessee Baptist Minister
Memoirs in Progress.J. N. [John Newton] Hall
Western Kentucky Baptist Pastor
A bio, picture and essay.
Samuel Harriss
Early Virginia Baptist Preacher
By James B. Taylor, 1859
Oliver Hart
By David Benedict, 1813
Jesse Boardman Hartwell, D.D.
Early Baptist Missionary to China
The Baptist Encylopedia, 1881
James B. Hawthorne
Baptist Minister
By B. F. Riley, 1915
Samuel Haycraft
Early Kentucky Baptist
The Baptist Encyclopedia, 1881
Information added. 12.4.08Thomas Henderson
Early Kentucky Baptist Minister and Educator
William Hickman
Kentucky Frontier Preacher
His autobio, two bios and a picture of his grave marker.
Henry Holcombe
Early Georgia Baptist Minister
By J. H. Campbell, 1874
Jesse Holman
Southeastern Indiana Baptist Preacher, Writer and Legislator
Two bios and a list of his essays.
One added 2.24.09Obadiah Holmes
Persecuted American Baptist
There are two documents
Robert B. C. Howell
Early Tennessee Baptist Pastor and Editor
There are four bios, two sermons and an essay.
Elder James Ireland
Early Virginia Baptist Preacher
There are three bios.
Jeremiah Bell Jeter
Early Virginia Baptist Minister
Two bios.
Added 11.27.08Hon. William Jewell, M.D.
Missouri Baptist Physician
By R. P. Rider, A. M.
Added 12.12.08James M. Jolly
Early Northern Kentucky Baptist Minister
Campbell County (KY) Association Minutes, 1901
12.12.08
Adoniram Judson
First American Baptist Missionary
Buell H. Kazee
Kentucky Baptist Minister, Teacher and Singer
A short bio, two books and other writings; also three audio sermons.
Franklin Howard Kerfoot
Baptist Pastor and Educator
By Henry T. Lothan, 1903
Bio and a Sermon.
William Kiffin
Early British Baptist MInister
There are three bios.
James A. Kirtley
Boone County (KY) Baptist Minister
Spencer's A History of Kentucky Baptists
Elder Robert Kirtley
Early Boone County, KY Baptist Leader
There are three bios.
Dutton Lane
Early Virginia Baptist
By Robert B. Semple
Tidence Lane
"First Minister to Preach Regularly to a Tennessee Congregation"
By J. J. Burnett, 1919
G. W. Lasher, D. D.
19th Century Baptist Minister and Editor
John Leland
There is a bio and five of his writings.
Samuel W. Lynd
Baptist Pastor and Educator
By James R. Duvall
Charles D. Mallary
Early Georgia Baptist Minister
By J. H. Campbell, 1874
Document Added - 8.3.09Basil Manly, Sr.
Basil Manly, Jr.
Early Baptist Ministers and Educators
James Manning, D.D.
By Thomas Armitage, 1890
Rev. Joseph Cowgill Maple, A. M., D. D.
Missouri Baptist Pastor and Historian
By R. P. Rider, 1918
Daniel Marshall
Early VA/NC Frontier Preacher
Joshua Marshman, D. D.
John C. Marshman
Father and Son -
Early British Missionary Helpers to William Carey
The Baptist Encyclopedia, 1881
Rev. Charles Hiram Mattoon
Early Oregon Baptist Minister and Historian
A Portrait and A Link to:History of Baptist Indian Missions added 12.08.08
Rev. Isaac McCoy
Early Baptist Indian Missionary
There are three bios.
Jesse Mercer
Early Georgia Baptist Minister and Leader
Two bios, five CLs and essays.
Joseph B. Moody, D. D.
By Ben M. Bogard
Baptist Minister and Educator
The Abel Morgans
Early Colonial Baptists from Wales
Bio, Circular Letters and two links
J. S. Murrow
Early Oklahoma Baptist Indian Missionary
By E. C. Routh, 1932
John Myles
Early Welsh and American Baptist Minister
There are two bios.
Silas Mercer Noel
There are two bios.
J. Frank Norris
Baptist Pastor and Editor
William Dudley Nowlin
Baptist Pastor and Historian
By Wendell H. Rone
Samuel Pearce
There are two bios and a Circular Letter
A Bio added 12.8.08John Mason Peck
There are six bios and an index of his essays.
A Review of a book added. - 11.26.08James Madison Pendleton
There are five bios and five essays.
A. M. Poindexter
Bio and two essays
John William Porter
Baptist Pastor, Editor and Author
Baptist Biography, 1920
Added. - 9.5.09George Ragland
Kentucky Baptist Minister
David B. Ray
There are three bios.
James Read
By James B. Taylor, 1859
A bio added. - 5.7.09Joseph Redding
There are three bios.
Morgan John Rhees
Early Welsh and American Baptist Minister
Dictionary of National Biography
Rev. John Rice
Early Kentucky Baptist Preacher
The Baptist Encyclopedia 1881
Luther Rice
Early Foreign Missionary Advocate
By James B. Taylor
William Bell Riley
Baptist Pastor, FBC, Minneapolis
Issachar J. Roberts
Early China Missionary
Tennessee Baptist Ministers, 1880
Ezekiel Gilman Robinson
There are two bios and an essay.
Wendell Rone
A Bio, short Autobio, an Essay and Chart.
Reuben Ross
Early Western TN/KY Baptist Pastor
There are two bios.
A. Judson Rowland, D. D.
The Baptist Encyclopedia, 1881
19th Century Baptist Minister
Robert Ryland
An Early African American Baptist Pastor
Three bios and his "History of Richmond Church"
Rev. Alfred Saker
Early British Baptist Missionary to Africa
The Baptist Encyclopedia, 1881
William Screven
Colonial Baptist Pastor
Two bios.
A. D. Sears
Frontier Baptist Preacher
By John H. Spencer, 1885
Robert B. Semple
Early Virginia Historian
By James B. Taylor
Added - 8.31.09T. T. Shields
Canadian Baptist Fundamentalist
By Gerald Priest
A Link
Henrietta Hall Shuck
The First Woman Baptist Missionary to China
By Marjorie Dawes
Jehu Lewis Shuck
Early Baptist China Missionary
Virginia Baptist Ministers, Third Series
By George B. Taylor, 1912
Green Clay Smith
Early Kentucky Baptist Minister and Lawyer
Hezekiah Smith
Colonial Baptist Pastor
The Baptist Encyclopedia
Elder John Smith
The First Permanent Baptist Pastor in Ohio
Columbia Baptist Church, Cincinnati, OH
John Henderson Spencer
Kentucky Baptist Historian
Shubael Stearns
Early Frontier North Carolina Preacher
There are two articles.
The Life of the Frontier Preacher John Stevens
Campbell County, Kentucky
By N. Pettit, 1855
A Bio added.James Suggett
Frontier Minister in KY & MO
John Tanner
Frontier Kentucky and Missouri Minister
There are five documents.
Carter Tarrant
Early Baptist Emancipationist
Autobiography, short bio and History book.
Biography of Elder Alfred Taylor
Written and compiled by his son,
William Carey Taylor, Sr., 1878
Elder A. S. Taylor
Graves County, KY
H. Boyce Taylor
Western Kentucky Pastor, Editor and Leader
There are three bios and three articles.
John Taylor: Frontier Baptist Preacher
There are five bios and three of his books.
Jesse B. Thomas, D. D.
Baptist Minister and Educator
Isaac Taylor Tichenor, D. D.
Early Baptist Minister and Educator
The Baptist Encyclopedia, 1881
Added. - 8.25.09Henry Holcombe Tucker, D. D., LL. D.
Baptist Editor and Minister
The Baptist Encyclopedia, 1881
Memoir of Joshua Vaughan
Baptist Minister in Pennsylvania
By A. D. Gillette, 1846
William Vaughan
Kentucky Frontier Baptist Minister
Two bios and an essay
Moses Vickers
Early Northern KY Baptist Minister
By J. H. Spencer
Document added. - 5.29.09Clarence Walker
Lexington, Kentucky Pastor
Picture, Obit and Funeral Sermon -- 1968
George Waller
Kentucky Frontier Baptist Minister
Two bios and a letter.
John Waller
Frontier Baptist Preacher
There are two bios.
Added. - 5.6.09John L. Waller
Early Baptist Pastor and Editor
By Samuel H. Ford, 1900
(Concerning Waller's Opinion of J. R. Graves)
Francis Wayland
The Baptist Encyclopedia
Early Baptist Minister and Educator
James Ely Welch
Early Missouri Baptist Missionary
Thee are two bios.
Life and Character of the Rev. Peter Werden
Early Massachusetts Baptist Pastor
By John Leland
Added. - 5.6.09William Whitsitt
Controversial Baptist
A bio added. - 1.22.09Rev. Alvin Peter Williams, D. D.
Early Missouri Frontier Baptist Minister
There are two bios.
Rev. Joseph Willis
Pioneer Louisiana Baptist Minister
The Baptist Encyclopedia, 1881
John Henry Wood
Nineteenth Century British
Baptist Minister and Historian
The Baptist Handbook for 1896
W. A. M. Wood
Kentucky Baptist
Minister and Missionary
Added two documents - 3.7.09W. Pope Yeaman
Baptist Minister and Educator
____________
Early Baptist Missionaries to China
Eleven missionaries + five essays.
The American Baptist Ministry of One Hundred Years Ago
The Baptist Quarterly, 1875
By John A. Broadus,
Biographical Sketches of the Pastors
of Grassy Creek Baptist Church (NC)
By Robert I. Devin, 1880
There are seventeen bios.
Sandy Creek Association Bios
A History of the Sandy Creek Baptist Association
By Elder George W. Purefoy
Biographies of Early Pastors of Elkhorn Baptist Association
J. H. Spencer's History of Kentucky Baptists
Biographies of Early Pastors of Long Run Association
A History of Kentucky Baptists
By J. H. Spencer, 1886
Early Prominent Leaders of the Northbend Baptist Association
Spencer's History of Kentucky Baptists
There are seven.
Prominent Baptists in Southwestern Ohio
in the Early 19th Century
By A. H. Dunlevy, 1869
Early Baptist Preachers in Virginia
History of Baptists in Virginia
By Robert B. Semple, 1894
Missouri Baptist Biographies
By Robert S. Duncan, 1882
[Sixty-seven bios here]
Early British Bios
J. M. Cramp's Baptist History
There are twenty-two bios.
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