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WITHERSPOON, Thomas Dwight, clergyman, born in Greensborough, Hale County, Alabama, 17 January, 1836. He was graduated at the University of Mississippi in 1856, studied theology, and became pastor of the Presbyterian church at Oxford, Mississippi, in 1859, was a chaplain in the army of the Confederacy for the whole duration of the civil war, then was settled at Memphis, Tennessee, till 1870, when he was chosen chaplain of the University of Virginia for the usual period of two years. After his incumbency in that post he took charge of a church at Petersburg, Virginia, which he left in 1882 to become pastor of one in Louisville, Kentucky, and at the same time chairman of the evangelistic agency of the synod. He has been invited to various professorships and to the presidency of colleges, but would not leave the pastorate. The University of Mississippi gave him the degree of D. D. in 1868, and that of LL. D. in 1884. Dr. Witherspoon is the author of "Children of the Covenant" (Richmond, 1867), and " Letters on Romanism " (1877).
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