Background
Best, Henry Riley was born on November 5, 1872 in Pineville, Missouri, United States. Son of Samuel David and Sarah Anne (Best) Best.
Best, Henry Riley was born on November 5, 1872 in Pineville, Missouri, United States. Son of Samuel David and Sarah Anne (Best) Best.
Student Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 1893-1898. Doctor of Divinity, Sioux Falls University, South Dakota, 1913.
Ordained Baptist ministry, 1898. Pastor at Chickasha (Oklahoma), Nevada (Missouri), Winfield (Kansas), Sioux Falls (South Dakot), Des Moines (Iowa), and Fargo (North Dakota), 1923-1929. Pastor First Church, Billings, Montana, since 1929.
Principal Biblical department Sioux Falls University, 1904-1918.
Dean School of Religion, Des Moines, 3 years. Active in social service and welfare movements.
Built and operated the City Temple (an open-all-the-time church), at Sioux Falls, 14 years Religious work director, World War. Regional director Inter-Church World Movement.
Member of Executive Committee Northern Baptist Convention, 1917-1920. Member Board of Missionary Coöperation, since 1924. Member North Dakota Council Religious Education, since 1925.
Mason.
Traveled in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Married Louise Kennison, 1892. Married second, Aimee A. Perreault, April. Children: Oren M., Frederick Virgil, Henry Randolph (deceased), Ethel Louise (Mistress James J. Odell).