William L. Pettingill?

[JamesRice]

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...

[Pastor Matt]

I live in the New York metropolitan area, and I am not familiar with them. What type of Baptists are they?

[Standing Firm In Christ]

Pettingill was a Baptist, well known and respected in his day.

One can find books authored by Pettingill online.

[LindaR]

Here's a site with a short biography of William L. Pettingill:

 

http://www.higherpraise.org/preachers/pettingill.htm

[JamesRice]

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". 

[Kathleen Cochran]

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]

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