{"id":1627,"date":"2013-05-07T12:47:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T19:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2018-07-19T10:39:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T17:39:14","slug":"jones-robert-bob-reynolds-1883-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1627","title":{"rendered":"JONES, ROBERT (BOB) REYNOLDS, 1883-1968"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Evangelist, religious broadcaster, college founder and president. \u00a0Born&#8211; Oct. 30, 1883, Skipperville, Ala. Parents&#8211; William Alexander and Georgia (Creel) Jones. Married&#8211; Bernice Sheffield, Oct. 24, 1905 (died 1906). Married&#8211; Mary Gaston Stollenwerck, June 17, 1908. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211;Mallalieu Seminary[secondary school], Kinsey, Alabama, graduated 1900.\u00a0Southern University, Greensboro,\u00a01901-1904. Licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1898. Active as an evangelist, 1902-1968, in every state and thirty foreign countries; made weekly radio broadcasts in the U.S. and abroad. Founded Bob Jones University in Lynn Haven, Florida, 1927; moved to Cleveland, Tenn., 1933; to Greenville, S.C., 1947.\u00a0 Served as president of Bob Jones\u00a0College, later\u00a0University, until his retirement in 1966. \u00a0Founder, International Association, Young People&#8217;s Fellowship Clubs and the Gospel Fellowship Association; president, Interdenominational Evangelistic Association; editor and publisher, The Fellowship News; contributor to many newspapers. Awarded the D.D. degree by Muskingum College, 1921; LL.D. by John Brown University, 1941. Died January 16, 1968.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online; Owen&#8217;s The Story of Alabama; American National Biography online; wikipedia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bob Jones&#8217; Sermons.\u00a0 Montgomery:\u00a0 Paragon, 1911.<\/p>\n<p>Comments on Here and Hereafter. New York; Loiseaux, 1942.<\/p>\n<p>Sowing and Reaping: A Sermon to Men. Paragon, 1914.<\/p>\n<p>Things I Have Learned. New York; Loiseaux Bros., 1944.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The papers of Bob Jones are held at Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Evangelist, religious broadcaster, college founder and president. \u00a0Born&#8211; Oct. 30, 1883, Skipperville, Ala. Parents&#8211; William Alexander and Georgia (Creel) Jones. Married&#8211; Bernice Sheffield, Oct. 24, 1905 (died 1906). Married&#8211; Mary Gaston Stollenwerck, June 17, 1908. Children&#8211; One. Education&#8211;Mallalieu Seminary[secondary school], Kinsey, Alabama, graduated 1900.\u00a0Southern University, Greensboro,\u00a01901-1904. Licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church, [&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-1627","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\/1627","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=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8435,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/8435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}