JEFFERSON, THOMAS. EARLY LIFE Jefferson was born at Shadwell in what is now Albemarle County, Va., on Apr. 13, 1743. He treated his pedigree lightly, but his mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson, came from one of the first families of Virginia; his...
Lee, Robert E.. EARLY LIFE AND CAREER Robert Edward Lee was born on Jan. 19, 1807, at his family's home, "Stratford," in Westmoreland County, Va. His father, Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, had been a cavalry officer during the American Revolution...
BIOGRAPHY: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BOOKMAN After less than two years of formal schooling, Franklin was pressed into his father's trade, but his more profound talents proved to be intellectual. He devoured books by John Bunyan, Plutarch, Daniel Defoe, and...
HISTORY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCHLecture 1: "Apostolic Fathers" Now this is the first lecture in a series of studies on Church History. And, at the Pensacola Bible Institute here in Pensacola, we consider church history to be second only to...
****************** S H A R E W A R E ****************** The Story of Martin Luther This disk contains a modern revision of that classic work Merle D'Aubigne's HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION published in...
Martin Luther 1483-1546 German reformer. Martin Luther was converted to Christ from the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church by reading the Epistle of Paul to the Romans. He became professor of theol- ogy at the University of Wittenburg in 1512,...
Louis S. Bauman1875-1950Louis Sylvester Bauman, pastor, missionary statesman, Bible conference speaker, and author, was born on November 13, 1875. The son of an itinerant Brethren minister and evangelist, William J.H. Bauman, he yielded to...
Louis Entzminger 1876-1958 Sunday School administrator and Baptist preacher. Dr. Louis Entzminger began his service for the Lord with a great desire to work with the Sunday Schools of Baptist churches. He began to work on a system that would help...
Samuel Porter Jones 1847-1906 American evangelist. Sam Jones was born at Oak Bowery, Ala- bama, and reared at Cartersville, Georgia. He studied to be a lawyer, but drinking and gambling soon brought him to the brink of ruin. At his father's...