Background
Boone, Arthur Upshaw was born on September 7, 1860 in Elkton, Kentucky, United States. Son of Higgason Grubbs and Martha Maria (Edwards) Boone.
Boone, Arthur Upshaw was born on September 7, 1860 in Elkton, Kentucky, United States. Son of Higgason Grubbs and Martha Maria (Edwards) Boone.
Public schools and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. Doctor of Divinity, Union University, Jackson, Tennessee, 1900.
Ordained Baptist ministry, 1887. Pastor, Elkton, Leitchfield and Smith’s Grove, Kentucky, 1887-1891, Clarksville, Tennessee, 1891-1898, 1st Church, Memphis, Tennessee, 1898-1930. Interim pastor First Baptist Church, Tulsa and Shawnee, Oklahoma, and Nashville, Tennessee, Shelbyville, Tennessee, Montgomery, Alabama, Tampa, Florida, 1931.
Pastor Baptist Memorial Hospital since January 1937.
President Tennessee Baptist Convention, 1903-1909. Trustee Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Director Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis. Trustee Union University, Tennessee, 1900-1910.
Home: 41 North. Bellevue, Memphis Tennessee‡.
Married Eddie B. Cooke, April. Married second, Ida McIntosh, June 9, 1927. Children: William Cooke, Martha Maria (Mistress Frank Hartwell Leavell).