Background
Lipsey, Plautus Iberus was born on July 5, 1865 in Independence, Mississippi, United States. Son of John Washington and Malinda Frances (Maxville) Lipsey.
Lipsey, Plautus Iberus was born on July 5, 1865 in Independence, Mississippi, United States. Son of John Washington and Malinda Frances (Maxville) Lipsey.
Student Union University, Jackson, Tennessee, 1880-1882. Bachelor of Arts, University of Mississippi, 1886. Master of Theology, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1889.
Doctor of Divinity, Mississippi College, Clinton, Mississippi, 1906.
Ordained Baptist ministry, 1889. Pastor successively Columbus, Indiana, Vicksburg, Mississippi, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Adairville, Kentucky, First Church, Greenwood, Mississippi, and Clinton, Mississippi, until 1912. Editor The Baptist Record, Jackson, Mississippi, 1912-1941.
Director Bank of Clinton.
First to suggest Baptist Seminary in New Orleans. A founder Baptist Bible Institute and Southern Baptist Hospital, both at New Orleans.
A founder and president of the board of trustees Mississippi Baptist Hospital, Jackson, Mississippi. President Mississippi Baptist Convention and of the Convention Board.
Member board of trustees of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, member Education communications of Mississippi Baptist.
Member Mississippi Baptist Orphanage Board. President of the board of trustees Baptist Bible Institute Author: Tests of Faith and Revelation. An Interpretation.
Member board of trustees of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Member Mississippi Baptist Orphanage Board. Member Delta Psi.
Married Julia Toy Johnson, November 21, 1889 (deceased). Married second, Mistress. Children: John Johnson, Plautus Iberus, Julia Frances (Mistress X. O. Steele), James Hollins, Crawford Hall, Mary Winston.