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Author: Will T. Hale

   EDGAR ESTES FOLK, A. M., D. D. Tennessee has a notable output of both men and

women who have graduated to distinction in practically all departments of human

endeavor. But it is doubtful if any other one family of the state has produced

three men who have wielded greater power and done more practical things in

public life than the Folk family. Joseph W. Folk made a national reputation and

was the first to give distinct meaning to the word "graft" in politics and

business by his work as prosecutor in St. Louis, became governor of Missouri,

and is today one of the strongest personalities in national affairs. Hon. Reau

E. Folk was for twelve years treasurer of Tennessee and otherwise prominent in

the affairs of this state.



   Edgar Estes Folk, the third of this trio of remarkable brothers, is known

both in his native state and through the country as an editor, author, preacher,

lecturer, traveler and reformer. He has achieved much himself and through the

medium of his editorial writings and of the pulpit and platform he has

influenced the thought and action of thousands of people, and always for better

ideals and practical reforms.



   Dr. Folk was born in Haywood county, Tennessee, September, 1856, a son of

Henry Bate and Martha C. (Estes) Folk, being of German-Italian ancestry. He was

educated at the Brownsville Academy, in Wake Forest College of North Carolina,

and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary of Louisville. Wake Forest College

rewarded him with the degree of A. M. in 1877 and D. D. in 1895.



   He was for twelve years, 1899-1911, president of the Tennessee Anti-Saloon

League, and to him more than to any other one man perhaps is due the abolition

of the liquor traffic in this state. As a minister of the Baptist church Dr.

Folk was pastor during the earlier years of his career at Murfreesboro,

Tennessee, Millersburg, Kentucky, and Albany, Georgia. Since 1888 he has been

editor of the Baptist and Reflector, at Nashville, the organ of the Tennessee

Baptists, and is also president of the Baptist Publishing Company, which

publishes this journal. He has been president of the Sunday School Board of the

Southern Baptist Convention since 1895, and is now president of the Tennessee

Baptist Convention.



   For years Dr. Folk has been in demand as a lecturer and temperance orator. He

has traveled and studied the countries and people of Europe, especially in the

lands bordering the Mediterranean, and his published travel articles and his

lectures based on those travels and on his broad studies in other fields have

been read or heard by thousands in all parts of the country. He is author of The

Mormon Monster, the Folk-McQuiddy Discussion on the Plan of Salvation, Baptist

Principles, A Southern Pilgrim in Eastern Lands, etc.



   Dr. Folk married Miss Lizzie Handly on March 6, 1888, and their home is in

Nashville. They have four children, Annie White, Edgar Estes, Jr., Cornelia and

Joseph Henry.



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A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913



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