Henry Clay Risner

Background

Risner, Henry Clay was born on November 11, 1869 in Magoffin County, Kentucky, United States. Son of Archibald and Narcissus (Prater) Risner.

Education

Student Georgetown (Kentucky) College. M.Th., Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, 1899. Doctor of Divinity, Women's College, Bryan, Texas, 1906.

Career

Ordained ministry Southern Baptist Church, 1887. Teacher public schools 3 years. Principal high schools, Dunkirk, Indiana, 1891-1892.

Pastorates in Kentucky, Texas, Tennessee, Maryland., New Jersey, Massachusetts, California, et cetera, also supply various churches including 5th Avenue Church, Huntington, West Virginia

Achievements

• Henry Clay Risner has been listed as a notable clergyman, author by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member World’s South.S. Convention, Jerusalem, 1904, and appointed. Member of commission to write the “Jerusalem Pilgrim’s Book,” 1904.

Connections

Married Hattie Carson, 1892.

Father:

Archibald Risner

Mother:

Narcissus (Prater) Risner

Spouse:

Hattie Carson