Background
Whitsitt, William Heth was born on November 25, 1841 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Reuben Ewing and Dicey (McFarland) Whitsitt.
Whitsitt, William Heth was born on November 25, 1841 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Son of Reuben Ewing and Dicey (McFarland) Whitsitt.
Master of Arts, Union University, Tennessee, 1861. University of Virginia, 1866-1867. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1867-1869.
University of Leipzig, 1869-1871.
(Doctor of Divinity, Mercer, 1873. Doctor of Laws, William Jewell College, 1888, Georgetown College, Kentucky, 1888, Southwestern Baptist University, 1888).
Ordained Baptist ministry, 1862. Served in C.S.A., 1862-1865. Pastor Mill Creek Church, near Nashville, 1865-1866, Albany, Georgia, February-July 1872.
Professor church history, 1872-1895, president, 1895-1899, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Professor philosophy, Richmond (Virginia) College, June since 1901. Author: Origin of the Disciples of Christ, 1888.
Life and Times of Judge Caleb Wallace, 1888. A Question in Baptist History, 1896.
Annals of a Scotch-Irish Family—the Whitsitts of Nashville, Tennessee, 1904.
Genealogy of Jefferson Davis, 1908. Home: Richmond, Virginia.
Married Florence Wallace, October 4, 1881.