Background
Bitting, William Coleman was born on February 5, 1857 in in Hanover Company, Virginia, United States. Son of Charles Carroll (Doctor of Divinity) and Caroline (Shadinger) B.
Bitting, William Coleman was born on February 5, 1857 in in Hanover Company, Virginia, United States. Son of Charles Carroll (Doctor of Divinity) and Caroline (Shadinger) B.
Educated Classical and Commercial School, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1869-1870. Master of Arts, Richmond (Virginia) College, 1877. Graduate Crozer Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania, 1880.
Doctor of Divinity, Richmond College, 1889, Howard College, Alabama, 1887, Brown University, 1910.
South.T.D., University of Chicago, 1916.
Ordained Baptist ministry, 1881. Supply Lee Saint Church, Baltimore, 1880-1881. Pastor Luray, Virginia, 1881-1883, Mount Morris Church, New York, 1884-1905, Second Church, Saint Louis, November 1, 1905-December 31, 1924.
Corresponding secretary Northern Baptist Convention, May, since 1907.
Author: Earthly Blooms from Heavenly Stems, 1900. Foundation Truths, 1902.
The Teaching Pastor, 1923. Home: Saint Louis, Missouri
Married Anna Mary Biedler, November 17, 1886. Children: William C., Frank Milton, Bitting (deceased), Kenneth Hills.