{"id":1031,"date":"2012-09-26T09:10:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T16:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2018-01-22T10:47:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T17:47:29","slug":"dobbins-william-ray-1861-1932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1031","title":{"rendered":"DOBYNS, WILLIAM RAY, 1861-1932"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Presbyterian clergyman; denominational leader.\u00a0Born&#8211; May 17, 1861, Columbus, Missouri. Parents&#8211; Benjamin Franklin and Margaret Ruth (Morrow) Dobbins. Married&#8211; Mary Triplette Buckland, 1889. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Westminster \u00a0College (Missouri); McCormick Theological Seminary, B. D., 1889. Ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1889. Organizing pastor of Immanuel Church in Chicago, 1886-1890; financial secretary of Westminister College, 1890-91; pastor, First Presbyterian Church,\u00a0 Marshall, Missouri, 1891-99; First Church,\u00a0 St. Joseph, Mo., 1891-1920; pastor of South Highland Church in Birmingham, 1920-32. A noted lecturer on the Bible. \u00a0Served as chairman of the executive committee of the Y.M.C.A. of Missouri; founder and president of the trustees of the School of the Ozarks; trustee of Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Louisville and of Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia. Member of the World&#8217;s Council of Presbyterians, Liverpool, England, 1904; chairman of the executive committee of the Synod of Alabama; moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. , the highest elected office in the denomination.\u00a0 Awarded the D.D. by Westminster College in 1901 and the LL.D. by Austin College in 1924.\u00a0 Died January 26, 1932.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online<\/p>\n<p>Ministerial Directory of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S., 1861-1941.<\/p>\n<p>A Heritage of Witness:\u00a0 South Highland Presbyterian Church, 1888-1988.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Addresses on Personal Work.\u00a0 N.P.: n.d.<\/p>\n<p>As-So.\u00a0 N.P.: n.d.<\/p>\n<p>The Book in the Light of Its Books. New York; F. H. Revell, 1929.<\/p>\n<p>The Challenge of Jesus Christ to this Generation.\u00a0 Presbyterian Church in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Outline Studies of the Scriptures.\u00a0 N.P.: n.d.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-Millennial&#8211;Why?\u00a0\u00a0 Chicago: Bible Institute Colportage Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Presbyterian clergyman; denominational leader.\u00a0Born&#8211; May 17, 1861, Columbus, Missouri. Parents&#8211; Benjamin Franklin and Margaret Ruth (Morrow) Dobbins. Married&#8211; Mary Triplette Buckland, 1889. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Westminster \u00a0College (Missouri); McCormick Theological Seminary, B. D., 1889. Ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1889. Organizing pastor of Immanuel Church in Chicago, 1886-1890; financial secretary of Westminister College, 1890-91; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7401,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions\/7401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}