Background
James Bruton Gambrell was the son of Joel Bruton and Jane (Williams) Gambrell. He was born on August 21, 1841, in Anderson, South Carolina.
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James Bruton Gambrell was the son of Joel Bruton and Jane (Williams) Gambrell. He was born on August 21, 1841, in Anderson, South Carolina.
When James was about a year old his family moved to Mississippi, and there he grew up, attending country schools.
He became a Confederate soldier in 1861, and, chiefly as a scout, spent more than two years in the Army of Northern Virginia.
In the early seventies, he was pastor of a church in Oxford, the seat of the University of Mississippi, where he took several courses of study.
During the latter part of the war, Gambrell was a captain in the West. Afterward, he lived in Virginia, and then returned to his home in Mississippi and taught school for a while before being ordained in 1867 as a Baptist preacher.
After preaching at various small towns, he was editor, 1878-93, of the Mississippi Baptist Record. During 1893-96, he was president of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and thereafter till 1918 - except for his four or five years’ editorship of the Baptist Standard - he was corresponding secretary of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
In that state, in the nineties, “the most awful denominational war ever waged in the South” was raging. The new recruit from Mississippi and Georgia was not long in making himself felt.
About 1915, he assumed the leadership of the newly merged educational and missionary activities of his denomination in Texas, and from 1918 till his death, he was a professor in the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.
In the last months of his life, while president of the Southern Baptist Convention, he visited Europe as a fraternal delegate to various gatherings of his codenominationalists.
James Bruton Gambrell was known as the president of Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. He was corresponding secretary of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. His publications include Ten Years in Texas and Parable and Precept. For all his force as an organizer, it was as a speaker and writer that he made his unique place in the minds of his contemporaries.
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Gambrell opposed schemes for church union, he thought war as justifiable as surgery, and he did not always avoid either dogmatism or platitude.
Gambrell had an eye for victory, he spoke a language understood by the citizenry, and he knew how to amass funds.
He was a blunt, plain fellow, racy and penetrating, given always to homely analogy.
He was undoubtedly sincere, however, and it is likely that not many have exceeded him in the force which he brought to bear upon the shaping of life in Texas.
On one of his expeditions in Nansemond County, Gambrell met Mary Tom Corbell, and some months later, January 1864, eluding the Federal guards, he made his way to her home and the two were married. They had nine children.
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1854 - 30 January 1923
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13 March 1848 - 8 November 1931
29 November 1852 - 19 January 1854
11 August 1850 - 30 January 1919
4 February 1846 - 2 August 1898
1840 - 9 May 1863
24 January 1843 - 15 January 1911
1881 - 1961
13 June 1880 - 14 October 1955
17 November 1874 - 2 January 1951
10 September 1888 - 24 July 1934
1 October 1869 - 9 February 1908
27 November 1868 - 23 September 1932
