James Bruton Gambrell

James Burton Gambrell was born on August 21, 1841 in Anderson County, South Carolina.[1][2][3] He grew up in Mississippi.[1]

During the American Civil War of 1861-1865, Gambrell served in the Confederate States Army.[3] He graduated from the University of Mississippi.[3]

Gambrell became a preacher at the Oxford Baptist Church in Oxford, Mississippi.[3] In 1877, he founded The Baptist Record, a Baptist publication, in Clinton, Mississippi.[4] He served as the president of Mercer University, a Baptist university in Macon, Georgia, from 1893 to 1896.[5]

Gambrell became the editor of the Baptist Standard in 1910.[3] He was the chair of Christian Ethics and Ecclesiology at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas from 1912 to 1914.[1][3]

Gambrell served as the President of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1917 to 1920.[2] During his last year, he visited Baptist churches in Europe with Edgar Young Mullins.[2][3] Back in Texas, he gave talks about Christianity.[1] For example, he was invited to speak on William B. Slaughter's ranch.[6]

Gambrell married Mary T. Corbell on January 13, 1864.[1][5] They had nine children.[3]

Gambrell died on June 10, 1921 in Dallas, Texas.[1][2] His funeral was held at the First Baptist Church of Dallas, and it was conducted by George Washington Truett.[2] Gambrell was buried at the Oakland Cemetery in Dallas, Texas.[2]

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