Born in 1816 near Sherburne, New York and orphaned at the age of five, as an adult John Anson Nash became a Baptist minister. First pastoring in New York, the American Baptist Home Mission Society in 1851 sent him to Fort Des Moines, Iowa. There he helped organize the First Baptist Church of Des Moines.…
Isaac Taylor Tichenor, Baptist minister, educator and orator, is arguably the most influential Baptist minister in Alabama. Prior to the war, and following a series of other pastorates in the South, Tichenor moved to Alabama to pastor the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, already emerging as a leading congregation in the South. He also took…
The war challenges Baptist higher education throughout the Confederacy. Already on the rise in the decade prior to the war and rivaling Methodist efforts, Baptists of the South, despite the national conflict, are yet evidencing some scholarly energy. This weeks Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph reports: Waco University, under the direction of the Baptists, opens its present…