Background
Petty, Alonzo Mcallister was born on November 9, 1860 in Burning Springs, Wirt County, West Virginia, United States. Son of Henderson and Hulda C. (Wright) Petty.
Petty, Alonzo Mcallister was born on November 9, 1860 in Burning Springs, Wirt County, West Virginia, United States. Son of Henderson and Hulda C. (Wright) Petty.
Student Berryville Academy, Bethel College, Russellville, Kentucky, and Lane University, LeCompton, Kansas. Doctor of Divinity from Linfield (Oregon) College, 1910, Redlands (California) University, 1910.
Ordained Baptist ministry, 1881. Pastor Meriden, Kansas, 1881-1882, Madison Saint Church, Topeka, 1883, Valley Falls, 1884, Santa Ana, California, 1884-1888, Stockton, 1888-1889, Dixon, 1897-1902. Superintendent Southern California Captain Convention, 1902-1908.
District secretary American Baptist Home Mission Society of Padfle Coast, 1908-1914.
Joint secretary of all Baptist boards of Northwest, 1914-1919. Field secretary New World Movement, 1919-1923.
Field representative American Baptist Home Mission Society, 1923-1933 (retired).
Mason.
Married Ida V. King, 1881 (died 1915). Married second, Mistress. Children: Carl Wallace (deceased), Alonzo Ray (deceased), Faunce Fern.