Background
Hale, Philip Thomas was born on August 18, 1857 in New Market, Alabama, United States. Son of Doctor Philip Perry and Caroline Susan (Gulledge) Hale.
Hale, Philip Thomas was born on August 18, 1857 in New Market, Alabama, United States. Son of Doctor Philip Perry and Caroline Susan (Gulledge) Hale.
Bachelor of Arts, with honors, Howard College, Alabama, 1879. Full graduate Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1883, and post-graduate same. Doctor of Divinity, Howard, 1890.
Doctor of Laws, Union U.
Ordained Baptist ministry. Pastor Danville, Kentucky, 1883-1888, Birmingham, Alabama, 1888-1898, Roanoke, Virginia, 1898-1901, Owensboro, Kentucky, 1901-1904. President Union University, Jackson, Tennessee, 1904-1906.
Correspondent secretary Baptist Education Society of Kentucky, 1906-1909.
Lecturer, and financial secretary, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, September 10, since 1909.
Member of the board State Missions of Alabama.
Married Lena Lyle Bolinger, December 9, 1885. Children: John Bolinger (deceased), Thomas Farris (deceased), Roy William, Philip Theodore, Davis Ward, Earl Douglas, Franklin Sevier.