Background
Folk, Edgar Estes was born on September 6, 1856 in Haywood Company, Tennessee, United States. Son of Henry B. and Mattie C. (Estes) Folk.
Folk, Edgar Estes was born on September 6, 1856 in Haywood Company, Tennessee, United States. Son of Henry B. and Mattie C. (Estes) Folk.
A.M., Wake Forest College, North Carolina, 1877 (Doctor of Divinity, 1895). Graduate Southern Baptist Tbeol. Seminary, 1882.
Ordained Baptist ministry, 1882. Pastor, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 1882-1885. Millersburg, Kentucky, 1886, Albany, Georgia, 1887-1888.
Editor Baptist Reflector, 1888-1889, Baptist and Reflector, since 1889. President S.S. Board Southern Baptist Convention, since 1895. President Anti-Saloon League of Tennessee, 1899-1911, Tennessee Baptist Convention, 1912, 13, 14.
Author: Plan of Salvation, 1907. Home: Nashville, Tenn.
Married Lizzie Handly, March 6, 1888.