Background
Stump, John Sutton was born on December 4, 1861 in Gilmer County, West Virginia, United States. Son of Bailey and Sallie (Sutton) Stump.
Stump, John Sutton was born on December 4, 1861 in Gilmer County, West Virginia, United States. Son of Bailey and Sallie (Sutton) Stump.
Glenville Normal School, West Virginia, 1 term. Graduate Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pennsylvania, 1890. Doctor of Divinity, Denison, 1911.
Ordained Baptist ministry, 1891. Missionary, Parkersburg, West Virginia, 1890-1891. Pastor Buckhannon, 1892-1893.
Organizer, incorporator, and correspondent secretary West Virginia Baptist Education Society, 1891-1894.
Superintendent West Virginia Baptist State Missions, 1896-1901. District secretary American Baptist Home Mission Society, 1901-1909.
Joint district secretary same society and American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, 1909-1920. Assistant secretary American Baptist Home Mission Society, March 1920-November 1926.
Secretary Department Church Edifice Work American Baptist Home Mission Society, 1926-1929.
Retired, 1931.
Member of board of managers General Convention Baptists of North.A., 1911 to dissolution.
Married Lily R. Budwell, March 2, 1892 (died 1925). Children: Felix Budwell, Josephine Ragland (deceased), John Sutton.