Winkler, Edward Theodore, Dd

Winkler, Edward Theodore, D.D.

a Baptist minister, was born at Savannah, Georgia, November 13, 1823. He graduated from Brown University in 1843, and studied in the Newton Theological Institution; in 1845 was assistant editor of the Christian Quarterly, and supplied the pulpit at Columbus, Georgia, for six months; in 1846 became pastor at Albany, and subsequently at Gallisonville; in 1852 secretary of the Southern Baptist Publication Society; in 1854 pastor at Charleston, S.C. in 1872 at Marion, in 1874 editor of the Alabama Baptist, and died November 10, 1883. He wrote several denominational works. See Cathcart, Baptist Encyclop. s.v.