Background
Hailey, Orren Luico was born on June 21, 1852 in Fayette Company, Tennessee, United States. Son of Luico Sanders and Elizabeth (Griffin) Hailey.
Hailey, Orren Luico was born on June 21, 1852 in Fayette Company, Tennessee, United States. Son of Luico Sanders and Elizabeth (Griffin) Hailey.
McKenzie College, Tennessee, 1 year. Henderson Masonic Institute, Tennessee, 3 years. Bachelor of Arts, Southwestern Baptist University, Jackson, Tennessee, 1878.
Graduate Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, 1884.
(Doctor of Divinity, Mississippi College, 1895).
Ordained Baptist ministry, 1879. Pastor various churches, Tennessee and Kentucky. Pastor Aberdeen, Mississippi, 1884-1885.
Organizer, and pastor 2d Church, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1885-1893.
Pastor Oxford, Mississippi, 1894-1895, Fort Smith, Arkansas, 1895-1899, 1st Church, Texarkana, 1900-1906, Comanche, Texas, 1906-1908, 1st Church, Corsicana, 1908-1914, Plainview, Texas, 1914-1915. President Wayland Baptist College, Plainview, Texas, 1915-1917.
Pastor Ervay Street Church, Dallas, Texas, 1917-1919. Has served many years as editor church papers, public as Nashville, Saint Louis and Little Rock, and as officer church associations and conversations
Chairman commission on order of business Southern Baptist Convention, 1913-1924.
Member joint commission bet. Northern and Southern Baptist conversations, 1917-1919. Member and secretary commission to establish theological seminary for Negro Baptists at Nashville, and in charge, since 1919.
Acting pastor Eastland Baptist Church, Nashville, 1919-1924.
Chosen by Baptist Convention, 1927, to write history of Tennessee Baptists, which was finished in 1929. Home: Nashville, Tennessee
Member joint commn; member and secretary
Married Nora South. Graves, October 14, 1885. Children: Orrena Bearden (deceased), James Graves, Orren Luico, Robert William, George Norman, David Walter.