Baptist Notables

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Tasks 3 Notable Baptists 4 Notable Baptists Without WikiTree Profiles 5 Resources 6 Footnotes

Introduction

This page is intended to serve as a place to keep track of notable Baptists from around the world. If you are interested in this project, please click here to be added to the trusted list for this page, so that you will receive a notification any time anybody edits the page or posts comments here. You can also contact me directly, or ask questions in G2G (just make sure you tag your questions with "Baptists").

The kind of people we are looking for may not be listed in Wikipedia or other general reference works, but have been important in Baptist history. They must be known as Baptists: evangelists, missionaries, pastors, or theologians may obviously have been known as Baptists, but lay Baptists who have had an influence on Baptist life can also be included.

Tasks

If you've put up all of the peple in your family (or at least all the ones you've found so far), and are looking for something else to do, here are some tasks that you might be willing to help with:

1. Adding Profiles:
   • We need to make sure that each Notable Baptist listed in sources like Wikipedia, The Canadian Encyclopedia, The Dictionary of Canadian Biography, or books on Baptist History has profile on WikiTree.
     • Progress: 68/97 people = 70.1%
2. Biographies:
   • We need to make sure that each Notable Baptist on WikiTree has a narrative biography containing all the genealogically relevant facts about them (birth, marriage, and death at the very least). For information on biographies, see the Biographies help page.
3. Categories:
   • We need to make sure that each Notable Baptist on WikiTree has the appropriate categories applied to their profile. For information on categories, see the Categorization help page and the Categorization Project. Also, see the hierarchy of categories within the Baptists category to see if any of them apply.
4. Connecting:
   • We need to connect all the unconnected profiles for Notable Baptists on WikiTree. (This can count towards the Connectors Challenge if you're feeling competitive.) For information on connecting profiles, see the Connectors Project.
     • Progress: 55/68 profiles = 80.9%
5. Merging:
   • We need to merge any duplicate profiles for the same person into one profile for that person. For information on merging profiles, see the Merging help page.
6. Sourcing:
   • We need at least one (and preferably more) sources added for all the Notable Baptist profiles on WikiTree. (This can count towards the Sourcerers Challenge if you're feeling competitive.) For information on sourcing profiles, see the Sources help page and the Sourcerers Project.
     • Progress: 53/68 profiles = 77.9%
7. Baptists in Wikipedia:
   • Not all of the people listed as Baptists in Wikipedia fall within the purview of this project, but those who do need to have profiles on WikiTree, and those profiles need to be sourced and connected to the main tree.
     • Progress:
       • added: 36/41 people = 87.8%
       • sourced: 32/36 profiles = 88.9%
       • connected: 26/36 profiles = 72.2%
       • link to Wikipedia as a source on profile: 32/36 profiles = 88.9%
       • image on profile: 24/36 profiles = 66.7%
8. Baptists in The Canadian Encyclopedia:
   • Not all of the people listed as Baptists in The Canadian Encyclopedia fall within the purview of this project, but those who do need to have profiles on WikiTree, and those profiles need to be sourced and connected to the main tree.
     • Progress:
       • added: 7/9 people = 77.8%
       • sourced: 7/7 profiles = 100%
       • connected: 7/7 profiles = 100%
       • link to The Canadian Encyclopedia as a source on profile: 2/7 profiles = 28.6%
       • image on profile: 5/7 profiles = 71.4%
9. Baptists in The Dictionary of National Biography:
   • Not all of the people listed as Baptists in The Dictionary of National Biography fall within the purview of this project, but those who do need to have profiles on WikiTree, and those profiles need to be sourced and connected to the main tree.
     • Progress:
       • added: 9/10 people = 90%
       • sourced: 8/9 profiles = 88.9%
       • connected: 7/9 profiles = 77.8%
       • link to The Dictionary of National Biography as a source on profile: 4/9 profiles = 44.4%
       • image on profile: 5/9 profiles = 55.6%

Notable Baptists

Name	Birth	Death	Notable As	Sourcing Level1	Connected?2	Image on Profile?
Melbourn Aubrey	1885	1957	General Secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland	3	No	Yes
Isaac Backus	1724	1806	Pastor	3	Yes	No
George Barclay	ca. 1779	1857	Pastor and evangelist	2	Yes	No
Ingraham Ebenezer Bill	1805	1891	Pastor and denominational leader	3	Yes	Yes
Alfred Booker	1800	1857	Pastor	3	Yes	No
Abraham Booth	1734	1806	Pastor and author	3	Yes	Yes
Richard E. Burpee	1810	1853	Missionary	0.5	Yes	No
William Carey	1761	1834	Missionary	3	Yes	Yes
Lott Cary	1780	1828	Pastor and missionary	2	No	Yes
Oswald Chambers	1874	1917	Pastor and teacher	3	No	Yes
William Allen Chipman	1757	1845	Lawyer, judge, and politician	2	Yes	No
Francis Augustus Cox	1783	1853	Pastor and abolitionist	3	Yes	Yes
John Mockett Cramp	1796	1881	President of Acadia University	2	No	Yes
Norman Dabbs	1912	1949	Missionary and martyr	1	No	No
Samuel Stearns Day	1808	1871	Missionary	1	Yes	No
Minnie DeWolfe	1841	1905	Missionary	3	Yes	No
Shubael Dimock	ca. 1753	1834	Pastor and politician	2	Yes	No
Tommy Douglas	1904	1986	Pastor and politician	3	Yes	Yes
Henriette Feller	1800	1868	Missionary	2	Yes	No
Robert Alexander Fyfe	1816	1878	Seminary Principal	3	No	Yes
David George	1742	1810	Escaped slave and pastor	2	Yes	No
Billy Graham	1918	2018	Evangelist	3	Yes	Yes
Thomas Helwys	1575	1616	Pastor	1	Yes	No
John Elisha Peck Hopper	1841	1895	Pastor and publisher	3	Yes	No
Charles Evans Hughes	1862	1948	First President of the Northern Baptist Convention	3	Yes	Yes
Louisa Ann Johnson	circa 1835	1911	Merchant and denominational leader	3	No	No
John Andrews Jones	1779	1868	Pastor and author	1	No	No
Adoniram Judson	1788	1850	Missionary	2	Yes	Yes
Martin Luther King Jr.	1929	1968	Pastor	3	Yes	Yes
Watson Kirkconnell	1895	1977	Scholar	3	Yes	Yes
William Boyd Kinnear	1796	1868	Lawyer, judge, and politician	1	Yes	No
Mary E Lemont	1842	1903	Missionary	2	Yes	No
Avard Longley	1823	1884	Farmer, merchant, temperance activist, and politician	1	Yes	Yes
Samuel Manning	1822	1881	Pastor	3	Yes	No
Alexander McDonald	1837	1911	Missionary	3	Yes	No
Asa McGray	1780	1843	Pastor	1	Yes	Yes
William McMaster	1811	1887	Co-founder of McMaster University	3	Yes	Yes
Lottie Moon	1840	1912	Missionary	1	Yes	Yes
John Webster Morris	1763	1836	Pastor and publisher	1	Yes	No
Hannah Maria Norris	1842	1919	Missionary and founder of the Woman’s Baptist Missionary Aid Society	1	Yes	Yes
William Pearly Oliver	1912	1989	Pastor, educator, and founder of the Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People	3	Yes	Yes
Richard Preston	ca. 1791	1861	Freed slave and pastor	0.5	Yes	Yes
Archibald Reekie	1862	1942	Missionary	2	No	No
John Rippon	1751	1836	Pastor, hymnologist, and denominational leader	1	No	No
Artemas Wyman Sawyer	1827	1907	Pastor and college president	3	Yes	Yes
T. T. Shields	1873	1955	Pastor	3	No	No
John Smyth	1554	1612	Founder of the Baptists	0.5	No	Yes
Charles Haddon Spurgeon	1834	1892	Pastor	3	Yes	Yes
Hudson Taylor	1832	1905	Missionary and found of the China Inland Mission	0.5	Yes	Yes
A. V. Timpany	1840	1885	Missionary	1	Yes	Yes
William Andrew White	1874	1936	Pastor and chaplain, first Blash officer in the British Army	3	Yes	Yes

Notable Baptists Without WikiTree Profiles

Name	Birth	Death	Notable As	Source(s)
Elijah Bentley	before 1799	after 1814	Pastor and office holder	Wikipedia, Dictionary of Canadian Biography
John Burton	1760	1838	Pastor	Wikipedia, Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Septimus Clarke	1787	1859	Co-founder of the African United Baptist Association of Nova Scotia	Wikipedia, Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Joseph Crandall	ca. 1761	1858	Pastor and politician	Wikipedia, Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Thomas Crosby	1683	1751	Historian	Wikipedia, Dictionary of National Biography
Benjamin Davies	1814	1875	Hebraist	Wikipedia
George Gould	1818	1882	Pastor	Wikipedia, Dictionary of National Biography
Joseph Jenkins	1743	1819	Pastor	Dictionary of National Biography
Dan Taylor	1738	1816	Pastor and denominational leader	Wikipedia, Dictionary of National Biography

Resources

• Cathcart, William, The Baptist encyclopædia : a dictionary of the doctrines, ordinances, usages, confessions of faith, sufferings, labors, and successes, and of the general history of the Baptist denomination in all lands : with numerous biographical sketches of distinguished American and foreign Baptists, and a supplement. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts (1883)
• Wikipedia: Baptist Christianity by country

Footnotes

1. "Sourcing Level" is a measure of primary sources (birth, christening, census, military, marriage, death, or burial records) on a profile, up to a maximum of 3. If a profile has no primary sources, but does link to Wikipedia or some other secondary source, then it gets a sourcing level of 0.5. If you can find a(nother) primary source for a Notable Baptist, please add it to that profile (then edit this page to increment that cell).
2. "Connected?" asks whether this person's profile has been connected to the main tree. If you see links at the bottom of the profile listing how many degrees that person is from the example profiles of the week, then their profile is connected to the main tree. (If so, please edit this page to put "Yes" in that cell.)