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Tupper, Henry Allen

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 29, 1828, in Charleston, S. C. He received a thorough academic education; and attained eminence as a successful clergyman of the baptist church. He was pastor of the Washington, Ga., Baptist church during 1853- 72; was secretary of the foreign mission board of the southern baptist convention during 1872-93; has been trustee of several colleges; is now trustee of Richmond college; and president and trustee of the Woman's college of Richmond, Va During the war he was chaplain of the ninth Georgia regiment. He is the author of Foreign Missions of Southern Baptist Convention; A Decade of Foreign Mis sions; Truth in Romance; The Carpenter's Son; First Century of First Baptist Church of Richmond, Va.; First Church of South Carolina; American Baptist Missions in Africa; and numerous pamphlets; and contributed to current literature. In 1893 he presented a paper at the World's Congress of Religions at Chicago, on African Missions.