Samuel S. Hill
Baptist Minister & Educator

      Samuel S. Hill, the moderator, [of the General Association of Baptists in Kentucky], was born in Virginia April 1, 1890. He was converted and baptized into the Republican Grove Baptist Church, Halifax County, Virginia, October 1904, and ordained in the Calvary Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia in 1916. After serving in country pastorates in his native state about three years, the young minister entered the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1921, where he received the Th. M. degree in 1924, and the Th. D. in 1926. Dr. Hill went from the Seminary to become pastor of the Bainbridge Street Baptist Church, Richmond, Virginia. In 1934 he came to Louisville in response to a call to the Deer Park Church, which he resigned to become President of Georgetown College on November 1, 1942.

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[From Frank Masters, A History of Baptists in Kentucky, 1953, p. 536. Scanned and formatted by Jim Duvall.]

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