Mississippi Baptist Preachers by Lovelace Savidge Foster

Mississippi Baptist Preachers by Lovelace Savidge Foster

Lovelace Savidge Foster

1847-1913

Lovelace Savidge Foster was born in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. He briefly attended the University of Alabama before attending the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Greenville, South Carolina. After being ordained to the Baptist ministry in Starkville, Mississippi, in 1871, Foster served churches in various towns in Mississippi as well as Camden, South Carolina. Foster founded the Mississippi Baptist Orphanage in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1897 and served as its superintendent from 1897 to 1903. He also organized and served as corresponding secretary of the Mississippi Baptist Historical Society. Foster passed away in 1903.

Alabama Authors of the 19th & 20th Centuries, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, http://alabamaauthors.org

1895

Mississippi Baptist Preachers. St Louis, MO; National Baptist Pub Co, 1895.

AL Book Collection

Foster, Lovelace Savidge, “Mississippi Baptist Preachers by Lovelace Savidge Foster,” Alabama Authors of the 19th & 20th Centuries, accessed November 8, 2026, https://alabamaauthors.org/items/show/24754.