Davis, William (3)
Davis, William (1)
a Baptist minister, was born in Orange County, Virginia, January 7, 1765. He was immersed at a Baptist Church in Orange County, called “Blue Run,” in his fifteenth year; soon after began publicly to exhort; at sixteen became a soldier in the Revolutionary army, and was wounded in the head. He was licensed to preach in 1788; ordained in Georgia in 1793; served one church in Elbert County twenty-three years; that at Beaver Dam twelve years; Clark’s Station nineteen years; and died October 31, 1831. See Campbell, Georgia Baptists. (J.C.S.)
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Davis, William (2)
an English Congregational minister, was born in London, June 15, 1788. He studied at Southampton; entered Hoxton Academy in 1814; in 1818 became pastor at Hastings, and died January 19, 1855. He published, The True Dignity of Human Nature: Immorality. See (Loud.) Cong. Year- book, 1856, page 210.
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Davis, William (3)
a Canadian Methodist preacher, was born in Dublin, Ireland, June 5, 1851. In 1854 his parents emigrated to Toronto, Canada. He was converted in 1869, under the Primitive Methodists, and began to preach; was accepted by the Bible Christians in 1873; travelled in several circuits; and died April 19, 1880, at Palmyra, Canada.