{"id":1576,"date":"2014-04-18T14:20:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T21:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2014-04-18T14:20:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T21:20:30","slug":"leek-charles-franklin-1892","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1576","title":{"rendered":"LEEK, CHARLES FRANKLIN, 1892-1971"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clergyman. Born&#8211; November 5, 1892, Baltimore, Md. Parents&#8211; Benjamin Franklin and Margaret (Hoffman) Leek. Married&#8211;Mary Evelyn Andrew, June 29, 1911 (died 1913).\u00a0 Children&#8211;one. Married&#8211; Zola Younge Hubbard, July 6, 1919. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; University of Richmond, B.A., 1922; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Th.M., 1925. Ordained to the Baptist ministry, 1915; pastor at Hollywood, Greenpond, and Richmond, Va.; Pleasureville and Louisville, Ky.; Montgomery, 1931-1946; Lafayette, Ga.; Thomasville, N.C. Member&#8211; Board of Directors and First Vice President, Alabama Baptist State Convention; columnist, Alabama Baptist; contributor, Sunday School Builder; editor, Watching the World.\u00a0 Died January 19, 1971.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in America, 1946; files at the Alabama Department of Archives and History.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The History of Pittsylvania Baptist Association, 1788-1963. Danville, Va.; Pittsylvania Baptist Association, 1963.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Clergyman. Born&#8211; November 5, 1892, Baltimore, Md. Parents&#8211; Benjamin Franklin and Margaret (Hoffman) Leek. Married&#8211;Mary Evelyn Andrew, June 29, 1911 (died 1913).\u00a0 Children&#8211;one. Married&#8211; Zola Younge Hubbard, July 6, 1919. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; University of Richmond, B.A., 1922; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Th.M., 1925. Ordained to the Baptist ministry, 1915; pastor at Hollywood, Greenpond, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","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=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3076,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/3076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}