Background
Webb, Robert Thomas was born on August 30, 1866 in near Louisburg, North Carolina, United States. Son of Robert Thomas (Doctor of Medicine and Bettie (Brodie) W.
Webb, Robert Thomas was born on August 30, 1866 in near Louisburg, North Carolina, United States. Son of Robert Thomas (Doctor of Medicine and Bettie (Brodie) W.
Bachelor of Arts, Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, 1890, Doctor of Divinity, 1920. Graduate student, Vanderbilt University.
1 son, James Vernon Billingsley (deceased). Ordained ministry Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1895. Pastor Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1893-1894, Rockwood, 1894-1895, Ducktown, 1895-1896, Athens, 1896-1898, Cedar Bluff, Virginia, 1898-1901, Pocahontas, 1901-1902, Philippi, West Virginia, 1902-1905, Fairmont, West Virginia, 1905-1908, Charleston (1st Church), West Virginia, 1908-1912, Barboursville, West Virginia, and associate president Morris Harvey College, 1912-1915, Fairmont, West Virginia (2d pastorate), 1915-1917, Saint Paul’s Church, Parkersburg, 1917-1920.
President Morris Harvey College and secretary of education, 1920-1922, also professor of theology, 1923.
Pastor Saint Paul’s Church, Clarksburg, West Virginia, 1923-1925. Presiding elder Huntington District, Western Virginia Conference of Methodist Episcopal Church Church, South., 1925-1929.
Financial secretary Morris Harvey College, 1929-1931. Pastor Pikeville, Kentucky, 1931-1937.
President Conference Board Education, 1910-1922.
Conference secretary of education, 1920-1923. President Conference South.S. Board, 1918-1922. Served as member Commision on Ednl.
Standards of Methodist Episcopal Church, South, also as member Federated Council of Churches from Western Virginia Conference.
President Conference Board of Missions, 1934-1938. Member Greater Morris Harvey Commission.
Delegate to Men and Religion Forward Movement, New York City. Delegate to General Conference, 1918, 26, 30.
Chairman Methodist Y.P. Convention, Memphis, Tennessee, December 1925-January 1926.
Member Commn; member Federated Council of Churches Member Greater Morris Harvey Commission
Married Mary Adelaide Robertson, October 20, 1898.