Biography:

Baptist clergyman; denominational historian. Born– October 28, 1888, Climax, Ga. Parents– Barkley Wade and Alice Louise (Brock) Cox. Married– Osye Lee Mathews, 1910. Children– Two. Education– Mercer University, B.A., 1914, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Th.D., 1918. Ordained; 1910. Student pastor; Georgia and Kentucky. Pastor; Barnesville, Savannah, Ga.; Portsmouth, Va.; Meridian, Miss.; Huntingdon, W.Va.; Mobile, Ala. (1931-1932). First Executive Secretary of the Historical Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.  Instrumental in getting 6.6 million pages of rare Baptist books, periodicals, and church records microfilmed.  Oversaw the publication of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, published in 1958.  Edited a Baptist paper in West Virginia and served as Associate Editor of the Quarterly Review, 1951-59.  Died February 9, 1968.

Source:

Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists, Supplement. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1958.

Publication(s):

Dreams, Dungeons, Diadems; in New England, in Virginia, Today and Tomorrow. Nashville; s.n., 1954.

God and Ourselves. Nashville; Broadman, 1960.

We Southern Baptists. Nashville; Covention Press, 1961.

Youth’s Return to Faith. Philadelphia; Judson Press, 1938.

Editor;

Encyclopedia of Southern Baptists.  Broadman Press, 1958.