Background
Edwin T. Winkler, Sr. was born on November 13, 1823, in Savannah, Georgia, the second child of Shadrach Nicholas Winkler, Sr. and Jane MacFarlane.
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Edwin T. Winkler, Sr. was born on November 13, 1823, in Savannah, Georgia, the second child of Shadrach Nicholas Winkler, Sr. and Jane MacFarlane.
He was prepared for college at Chatham Academy, and graduated from Brown University in the class of 1843. For the next two years he was a student in the Newton Theological Institution.
He then returned South and for a brief period supplied the Baptist church in Columbus, Georgia. In 1846 he was ordained and for a year edited the Christian Index, the Baptist paper of Georgia.
From 1847 to 1849 he was pastor of the church in Albany, Georgia, and from 1849 to 1852 of one in Gillisonville, South Carolina. The separation of the Southern from the Northern Baptists in 1845 had led to the organization of the Southern Baptist Convention and the establishment of new missionary agencies. A group of leading ministers and laymen, feeling that the Southern Baptists should have their own publishing agency, formed and located in Charleston, South Carolina, the Southern Baptist Publishing Society, and in 1852 Winkler, Sr. became its executive secretary, serving for two years, in the second of which he edited the Southern Baptist.
In 1854 he became pastor of the First Baptist Church of Charleston. During the Civil War he served as chaplain in the Confederate army. Returning to Charleston, he took charge of Citadel Square Baptist Church, and continued his connection with it until 1872. For the next two years he was pastor of the Baptist church in Marion, Alabama, at the end of which time he became editor of the Alabama Baptist. For ten years he was also president of the Home Missionary Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.
In 1857 he prepared a catechism, Notes and Questions for Oral Instruction of Colored People, that was widely circulated and extensively used, and in 1871 he delivered a sermon before the American Baptist Home Mission Society, the missionary agency of Northern Baptists, upon the education of the colored ministry. As corresponding editor, he served upon the staff of Baptist papers, North and South. Twice he was invited to accept a professorship in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, but declined. His scholarly attainments are displayed in his Commentary on the Epistle of James (1888) in the American Commentary Series edited by Alvah Hovey. His other published works include The Spirit of Missions (1853); The Sacred Lute (1855), a collection of popular hymns; Rome, Past, Present and Future (1877). Edwin Theodore Winkler, Sr. died on November 10, 1883, in Marion, Alabama.
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In 1846, Edwin Theodore Winkler, Sr. married Abby Turner Howe. After the death of his first wife, in 1859 he married Rosa Cornelia Burckmyer.
Edwin Theodore Winkler, Sr. had several children.