{"id":2394,"date":"2012-10-29T09:33:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T16:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2018-10-05T10:43:27","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T17:43:27","slug":"manly-basil-jr-1825-1892","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2394","title":{"rendered":"MANLY, BASIL, JR., 1825-1892"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clergyman; seminary professor; denominational leader.\u00a0 Born December 19, 1825, Edgefield County, South Carolina.\u00a0 Parents&#8211;Basil and Sarah Murray Rudulph Manly.\u00a0Married&#8211; Charlotte Elizabeth Whitfield, April 28,1852 (died 1867) ; children&#8211;eleven.\u00a0\u00a0Married Henrietta Summers Hair, June 19, 1869; children&#8211;six. \u00a0Education&#8211;\u00a0 University of Alabama, B.A., 1844; Newton Theological Institute; Princeton Theological Seminary, B.D., 1847.\u00a0 Ordained by First Baptist Church, Tuscaloosa, 1848.\u00a0 Served various churches in Alabama, 1848-1850; pastor of First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va., 1850-1854; founder and president of Richmond Female Institute, 1854-59; founder and professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (then located in Greenville, S.C.), 1859-1871; president of Georgetown College, Kentucky, 1871-1877; professor of Old Testament at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (relocated to Louisville), 1877-1892. Led the founding and organization of the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board, first established in 1863.\u00a0 Author of more than 20 hymns and anthems.\u00a0 Died January 31, 1892.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, vol. 2.\u00a0 Broadman Press, 1958; Marquis Who&#8217;s Who online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bible Doctrine of Inspiration.\u00a0 1888.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Compiler;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baptist Chorals.\u00a0 Richmond, 1859.<\/p>\n<p>Manly&#8217;s Choice, 1891,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-editor and compiler;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baptist Psalmody.\u00a0 Charleston, 1850.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The papers of Basil Manly, Jr., including his diary and letterbooks, are held by the Special Collections Department of the James P. Boyce Centennial library at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. Other relevant papers are included in the Manly Collections at the University of North Carolina, Furman University, and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Libraries.<\/p>\n<p><em>Created 10-28-2012<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Clergyman; seminary professor; denominational leader.\u00a0 Born December 19, 1825, Edgefield County, South Carolina.\u00a0 Parents&#8211;Basil and Sarah Murray Rudulph Manly.\u00a0Married&#8211; Charlotte Elizabeth Whitfield, April 28,1852 (died 1867) ; children&#8211;eleven.\u00a0\u00a0Married Henrietta Summers Hair, June 19, 1869; children&#8211;six. \u00a0Education&#8211;\u00a0 University of Alabama, B.A., 1844; Newton Theological Institute; Princeton Theological Seminary, B.D., 1847.\u00a0 Ordained by First Baptist Church, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8884,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions\/8884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}