Middlesex-Suffolk County MA Archives Biographies.....Poteat, Edwin McNeil 
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Source: National Cyclopedia of American Biography
Author: James T. White Co.

Edwin McNeil Poteat

Clergyman - was born in Caswell County, NC, Feb. 6, 1861, son of James and 
Julia Annis (McNeil) Poteat, and a descendant of Gerard Petite, a French 
Huguenot who came from France and settled in north Georgia. His mother was of 
Scotch ancestry.

After attending the village school, young Poteat entered Wake Forest College 
and was graduated there in 1881. He was also graduated at the Southern Baptist 
Theological Seminary in 1885, and then took a post-graduate course at Johns 
Hopkins University (1886-88).

During that period he was acting pastor of the Lee Street Baptist Church, 
Baltimore, Md. For ten years he was pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church at 
New Haven, Conn., and during 1898-1903 was pastor of the Memorial Baptist 
Church of Philadelphia.

In the latter years he was elected president of Furman University. Pres. 
Poteat was recording secretary of the American Baptist Educational Society 
during 1889-95 and a member of the boards of managers of the American Baptist 
Missionary Union during 1890-98 and the American Baptist Publication Society 
during 1898-1905, respectively.

He was married in Boston, Mass., Oct. 24, 1889, to Harriet Hale, daughter of 
Rev. A. J. Gordon, D.D., and has seven children.

Additional Comments:
Source:
The National Cyclopedia 
of American Biography
Volume XIV
1910

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