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TUPPER, Henry Allen, clergyman, born in Charleston, South Carolina, 29 February, 1828. His father, Tristram, a merchant of Charleston, was at one time president of the South Carolina railroad. The son was educated in part at Charleton college, and was graduated at Madison university, New York, in 1848, and at its theological seminary in 1850. Having entered the ministry, he became, after three years' service in Graniteville, South Carolina, pastor of the Baptist church at Washington, Georgia, in which relation he continued for nearly twenty years. During the civil war he was chaplain of the 9th Georgia regiment of the Confederate army. In 1872 he was made corresponding secretary of the Foreign missionary board of the Southern Baptist convention, with his residence in Richmond, Virginia He still (1889) holds this office, and is a trustee of Richmond college. In ]870 Madison university conferred on him the degree of D.D. Besides various published sermons and addresses, Dr. Tupper is the author of " The First Century of the First Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia" (Philadelphia, 1880), "Foreign Missions of the Southern Baptist Convention (1880); and "Truth in Romance" (Baltimore, 1887).
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