William Bell Riley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

William Bell Riley

American pastor

Date of Birth: 22-Mar-1861

Place of Birth: Greene County, Indiana, United States

Date of Death: 05-Dec-1947

Profession: journalist

Zodiac Sign: Aries

William Bell Riley (March 22, 1861 in Greene County, Indiana, USA – December 5, 1947 in Golden Valley, Minnesota) was known as "The Grand Old Man of Fundamentalism." After being educated at normal school in Valparaiso, Indiana, Riley received his teacher's certificate.
After teaching in county schools, he attended college in Hanover, Indiana, where he received an A.B.
degree in 1885.
In 1888 he graduated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
In 1908, the Southwestern Baptist University of Jackson, Tennessee, conferred upon Riley an honorary D.D.
degree.
He served several Baptist churches in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois before taking the pastorate at the First Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1897.