Background
Barnett, Frank Willis was born on October 23, 1865 in Glennville, Alabama, United States. Son of Augustus William and Celeste (Treutlen) Barnett.
Barnett, Frank Willis was born on October 23, 1865 in Glennville, Alabama, United States. Son of Augustus William and Celeste (Treutlen) Barnett.
Studied University of Alabama, Vanderbilt University, The Sorbonne, Paris, University of Vienna, University of Berlin, New York Law School, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Doctor of Laws, Howard College, 1918. The Doctor of Letters, University of Alabama, 1924.
Practiced law successively at Birmingham, Alabama, New York, New York, and Atlanta, Georgia., until 1895. Ordained Baptist ministry, 1895. Pastor Johnson City, Tennessee, 1895.
Assistant pastor, First Church, Nashville, 1897, Forsyth, Georgia, 1898-1900.
Owner and editor Alabama.
Member Kappa Alpha.; Mason.
Married Maud Proctor, July 21, 1900. Children: Frank Willis, Proctor Hawthorne.