Biography:

Clergyman, educator. Born– August 18, 1857, New Market, Madison Co. Parents– Philip Perry and Caroline Susan (Gulledge) Hale. Married– Lena Lyle Bolinger, December 8, 1885. Children– Seven. Education– Howard College, A.B., 1879; graduate of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1883; post-graduate work at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Ordained a Baptist minister; pastor in Danville, Kentucky, Birmingham, Roanoke, Virginia, and Owensboro, Kentucky. Editor, The Birmingham Baptist; president, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee, 1904-06; corresponding secretary for Baptist Education Society of Kentucky, 1906-09, and lecturer and financial secretary at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Founder and first president, Southern Baptist Educational Conference.  Honors– Howard College, D.D., 1890; Union University, LL.D. Died December 23, 1926.

Source:

Marquis who’s who online; Biographical Dictionary of Southern Authors; Library of Southern Literature, Vol. 15.

Publication(s):

Letters on a European Tour. S.l.; s.n., s.d.

Letters on a Tour through Greece, Turkey, Egypt and the Holy Land. S.l.; s.n., s.d.

Editor:

Birmingham Baptist. Birmingham, Ala. ; s.n., s.d.