Tucker, Henry Holcombe

D.D. (Columbian College, Washington, D.C., 1860), Baptist; b. in Warren County, Ga., May 10, 1819; graduated at Columbian College (now Columbian University), Washington, D.C., 1838; was profe or of belles lettres in Mercer University, Macon, Ga., 1856-62; president, 1866-71; chancellor of the University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., 1874-78; at present, editor of The Christian Index, Atlanta, Ga. He is the author of The Gospel in Enoch, Philadelphia, 1868; The Old T'heology restated in Sermons, 1884. One of his sermons, The Position of Baptism in the Christian System (Philadelphia, 1882), has had an immens 233 e circulation in the United States and Canada, and has been translated into Swedish, German, Turkish, Greek, Armenian, and Spanish.