Members JamesRice Posted August 25, 2013 Members Share Posted August 25, 2013 Anyone familiar with William L. Pettingill? I know that he pastored the First Baptist Church located in New York City. He followed I.M. Haldeman in the pastorate there as well. Other than that, I wonder if anyone is familar with him and his body of work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Pastor Matt Posted August 25, 2013 Administrators Share Posted August 25, 2013 I live in the New York metropolitan area, and I am not familiar with them. What type of Baptists are they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Standing Firm In Christ Posted August 25, 2013 Members Share Posted August 25, 2013 Pettingill was a Baptist, well known and respected in his day. One can find books authored by Pettingill online. JamesRice 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LindaR Posted August 25, 2013 Members Share Posted August 25, 2013 Here's a site with a short biography of William L. Pettingill: http://www.higherpraise.org/preachers/pettingill.htm JamesRice 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JamesRice Posted August 26, 2013 Author Members Share Posted August 26, 2013 Thank you guys much. I found some of his books on Amazon. Just catching a glance, his "Simple Studies..." (kindle books) look to be really good. I've gathered this much about him, he leaned toward "fundamentalism". LindaR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kathleen Cochran Posted July 2, 2016 Members Share Posted July 2, 2016 William Leroy Pettingill was married to my grandmother's Aunt Hattie (Brock Lockhart). Hattie was a young widow who took in roomers and one of them was WIlliam Pettingill. He was quite a bit younger than Hattie. They were married in 1890. They had a daughter, Ruth, who was mentally disabled. My grandmother's mother lived with her young Aunt Hattie following both of her parents' deaths, and she married my great grandfather, John William Kopf , (who was the same age as Pettingill) in 1894. The families kept in touch and when my grandmother had twins in 1930, he sent a note that I have in my archives. My grandmother remembered bother her father and husband saying that Aunt Hattie was the "personification of a lady." My grandmother remembered attending the ceremony and dinner party at Wheaton College when Pettingill received an honorary doctorate from Wheaton in 1927. She heard him preach several times at Moody Institute in Chicago. My grandparents visited Aunt Hattie and Pettingill in Wilmington, Delaware around 1932. Hattie died between this visit and Uncle Will's remarriage in 1936. I gathered this information from my grandmother about 1990 while working on my family history. Alan and HappyChristian 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alan Posted July 3, 2016 Members Share Posted July 3, 2016 Kathleen, Thank you for the historical information on your family tree. Unless I am mistaken (and I hope that I am not), William L. Pettingill was one of the consulting editors with C. I. Scofield; i.e., the Scofield Reference Bible. Regards, Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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