- David Seth Doggett
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David Seth Doggett (January 26, 1810-October 29, 1880) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1866. He was born in Lancaster County, Virginia. He was descended from the Rev. Benjamin Doggett, a Church of England immigrant to Virginia about 1650, Rector of White Chapel Church in Lancaster County. (Rev. Benjamin Doggett immigrated to Virginia in 1669/70 from England according to most sources. He received his Bachelor of Divinity Degree from St. John's College, University of Cambridge in 1860.[citation needed]) He had Revolutionary forebearers, and his parents were Methodists. David was converted at the age of 17. David's father was a lawyer and David began the study of that profession, but changed to the ministry.
He was educated at the University of Virginia. He joined the Virginia Annual Conference in 1829, serving as an itinerant minister, traveling through the southern states. In 1866 he accepted a professorship at Randolph Macon College.
See also
References
- Cyclopaedia of Methodism, Matthew Simpson, D.D., LL.D., Ed., (Revised Edition.) Philadelphia, Louis H. Everts, 1880.
- Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops. Nashville, The Methodist Publishing House, 1948.
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