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WHITSITT, William Heth, clergyman, born near Nashville, Tennessee, 25 November, 1841. He was graduated at Union university, Tennessee, in 1861, and at the Southern Baptist theological seminary in 1869, meanwhile spending a year at the University of Virginia. He studied in 1869-'70 at the University of Leipsic, and in 1870-'1 at the University of Berlin, served for a short time as pastor of the Baptist church in Albany, Georgia, and in 1872 was elected professor of ecclesiastical history in the Southern Baptist theological seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, which place he still holds. Mercer university gave him the degree of D. D. in 1874. Besides various contributions to reviews and other periodicals, he is the author of "History of the Rise of Infant Baptism" (Louisville, 1878); "History of Communion among Baptists (1880)" and "Origin of the Disciples of Christ, a Contribution to the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Alexander Campbell" (New York, 1888).
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