Background
Poteat, Edwin Mcneill was born on February 6, 1861 in Caswell Company, North Carolina, United States. Son of James and Julia A. (McNeill) Poteat.
Poteat, Edwin Mcneill was born on February 6, 1861 in Caswell Company, North Carolina, United States. Son of James and Julia A. (McNeill) Poteat.
Bachelor of Arts, Wake Forest (North Carolina) College, 1881, Doctor of Divinity, 1894. Graduate Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1885. Student psychology and philosophy, Johns Hopkins, 1886-1888.
Lecture courses, Yale, 1888-1898.
University of Berlin, summer of 1888. Doctor of Laws, University of South Carolina., 1906, Baylor University, 1907.
Review A. J. Gordon, Doctor of Divinity, of Boston, October 24, 1889 (died 1919). Children—Gordon, Edwin McNeill, John Robinson, Priscilla, Isabella Graves, James Douglass, Clarissa Hale, Arthur Barron (deceased). Married second, Harriet Helen Brittingham, June 1925. ordained Baptist ministry, 1884.
Pastor, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1885.
Assistant professor ancient languages, Wake Forest College, 1886. Acting pastor Lee Saint Church, Baltimore, 1886-1888.
Pastor Calvary Church, New Haven, Connecticut, 1888-1898, Memorial Church, Philadelphia, 1898-1903. President Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina., 1903-1918.
Platform representative of Laymen’s Missionary Movement, and Interch.
World Movement, 1918-1919. Departmental executive secretary General Board of Promotion of Northern Baptist Convention, 1919-1921. Professor philosophy and ethics, Shanghai (China) Baptist College, 1921-1927.
Supply pastor First Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia, October 1927-1929.
Pastor Second Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia., 1929-1931. Professor ethics and comparative religion, Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, 1931-1934.
Professor of ethics Furman U. and Greenville Woman’s College, since 1934.
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Member of board of managers, American Baptist Missionary Union, 1888-1903, Baptist Publication Society, 1898-1903.
Married Harriet Hale, daughter Married second, Harriet Helen Brittingham, June 1925. Children: Gordon, Edwin McNeill, John Robinson, Priscilla, Isabella Graves, James Douglass, Clarissa Hale, Arthur Barron (deceased).