biography
| name: |
Riley, William Bell
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1861–1947)
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| biography:
| Protestant evangelist, born in Greene Co, Indiana, USA. The son of a pro-slavery Democrat who moved S of Ohio R at the outbreak of the Civil War, he grew up on farms in Kentucky, graduated from Hanover College (Indiana) in 1885, and launched a career as a Baptist preacher in Chicago (1893). In 1897–1942 he was pastor of the First Baptist Church, Minneapolis. A leader of the fundamentalist movement, he spoke out against divorce, dancing, Darwinian biology, New Deal social programmes, and Communism. The Northwestern Bible Training School, which he founded in 1902, became a centre of evangelical fundamentalism. |
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