{"id":1043,"date":"2011-08-30T11:20:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T18:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2018-01-09T10:51:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T17:51:55","slug":"dawson-lemuel-orah-1865-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"DAWSON, LEMUEL ORAH, 1865-1938"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baptist\u00a0clergyman. Born&#8211; April 24, 1865, Chambers County. Parents&#8211; Andrew Jackson and Marie Antoinette (Bailey) Dawson. Married&#8211; Margaret Samuel Lewis, October 30, 1890. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Howard College, A.B., 1886;\u00a0 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, (graduated\u00a01889); studied at\u00a0Columbian University (became George Washington University in 1904), the\u00a0University of Alabama, and the University of Berlin, Germany.\u00a0Ordained in\u00a0Baptist ministry, 1888; pastored churches in Kentucky, 1888-1892; pastor of First Baptist Church, \u00a0Tuscaloosa, 1892-1924; taught at Howard College, 1924-1938; founded Edgewood Baptist Church, Birmingham, in 1926 and served as its pastor, 1926-1938. Served as president of the Alabama Baptist State Convention, Southern Baptist Young People&#8217;s Union, and Rotary International. Member of the Alabama Baptist State Executive Committee and Southern Baptist Educational Association. Trustee, Central Female College, Tuscaloosa; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; Druid City Hospital. Awarded the honorary D.D. by Howard College, 1897.\u00a0\u00a0 Edgewood Baptist Church was renamed Dawson Memorial Baptist Church in his honor. \u00a0Died January 14, 1938.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guffin, R.L.\u00a0 A Legacy of Love: The First Baptist Church of Tuscaloosa.\u00a0 Available on First Baptist Church website.<\/p>\n<p>Marquis Who&#8217;s Who online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After Fifty Years. Nashville; Broadman, 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Light Spots. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Weatherford, 1933.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Baptist\u00a0clergyman. Born&#8211; April 24, 1865, Chambers County. Parents&#8211; Andrew Jackson and Marie Antoinette (Bailey) Dawson. Married&#8211; Margaret Samuel Lewis, October 30, 1890. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Howard College, A.B., 1886;\u00a0 Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, (graduated\u00a01889); studied at\u00a0Columbian University (became George Washington University in 1904), the\u00a0University of Alabama, and the University of Berlin, Germany.\u00a0Ordained in\u00a0Baptist ministry, [&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-1043","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\/1043","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=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7318,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/7318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}