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BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE

Edgar Godbold was born in Auburn, Mississippi, on December 2, 1879, and received his bachelor’s (1905) and master’s (1910) degrees from Mississippi College. In addition to his graduate work there, he also attended the University of Chicago (1906-1907). In 1912 Godbold was named executive secretary of the Louisiana Baptist Education Commission, a position he held until 1918. In 1919 he was named Corresponding Secretary of the Executive Board of the Louisiana Baptist Convention. In addition to this, he taught biology at Louisiana College (in Pineville, La.), served as president of Howard Payne College in Texas (1923-1929), president of Louisiana College (1942-1951), and president of the Louisiana Baptist Convention (1950-1951). He died on November 21, 1952.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

Papers include correspondence concerning family news, the wedding certificate of Edgar Godbold and Lucie T. Yates (1940), a speech delivered at Ridgecrest Baptist Assembly (N.C.), notes, and other personal papers documenting Godbold's involvement in Louisiana Baptist organizations. Printed items include prayer books, Godbold’s business card, and “A Staff Statement on Activities of the Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana During the 1952 Biennial Session of the Louisiana Legislature” (1952). Manuscript volumes include an album containing photographs and postcards of Godbold’s time stationed in Italy (1919), a guest book (1944-1961), a scrapbook containing unidentified family photographs and newspapers and writings pertaining to Louisiana College, Louisiana Baptist Convention, and Howard Payne College (1956), a laboratory notebook of Godbold’s while enrolled at the University of Chicago (1907), and a Memorial Record (1952). Other printed items include The Pine Knot, the Louisiana College yearbook (1915); Ricordo Di Milano, a brochure from Milan (1919), and the Mozarkian, the Southwest Baptist College yearbook, Bolivar, Missouri (1939). Artifacts include a medal for debating (1904), a pin (1955), and a tie clip (undated).

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