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Mar 22, 1861 Greene County, Indiana, United States Died on 05 Dec 1947 (aged 86)
American pastor
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About William Bell Riley
- William Bell Riley (March 22, 1861 in Greene County, Indiana, USA – December 5, 1947 in Golden Valley, Minnesota) was known as "The Grand Old Man of Fundamentalism." After being educated at normal school in Valparaiso, Indiana, Riley received his teacher's certificate.
- After teaching in county schools, he attended college in Hanover, Indiana, where he received an A.B.
- degree in 1885.
- In 1888 he graduated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
- In 1908, the Southwestern Baptist University of Jackson, Tennessee, conferred upon Riley an honorary D.D.
- degree.
- He served several Baptist churches in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois before taking the pastorate at the First Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1897.
