INTRODUCING THE AUTHOR
Marshall Wingfield, clergyman, genealogist and historian; b. at Snow
Creek, Franklin county, Va., February 19, 1893; s. Tazewell Tarleton and
Mary Susan (Motley) Wingfield; educated in public schools of Virginia,
Johnson Bible College of Tennessee, and Texas Christian University,
Fort Worth, Texas; special student in various institutions of higher
learning; m. Willo Irene Austin, of Rockingham county, N. C., August
19, 1913; ordained to the ministry (Disciples) November 10, 1912; pastorates
in Dallas, Tex.; Richmond, Va.; Baltimore, Md., and Bowling
Green, Va.; pastor of Thirtieth-Street Church (Disciples) of Newport
News, Va., since September 1, 1924; on lecture platform summers of
1917 and 1918; author of "The Strength of a Nation," "The Return to
Faith," "The Credentials of Christianity," "The Old South," "A
Parish in the Battlefields," "The Fate of Prophets," "The Midnight
Singers," "The Significance of Heraldry," and "Sermons"; contributor
to various religious, fraternal and historical journals; member Virginia
Historical Society, Southern Historical Society, National Historical
Society, Association for Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, State
Board of Virginia Christian Missionary Society, National Geographic
Society, Virginia Ministerial Association (Disciples), Scottish Rite
Bodies of Richmond, Acca Temple A. A. O. N. M. S., of Richmond,
Association for the Promotion of Christian Unity, and of various social,
literary, fraternal, and religious clubs of Richmond, Va., and Washington,
D. C.
