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LUTHER BROADDUS

the second son of Rev. Andrew Broaddus II, and Martha
Jane Pitts, was born in Caroline county, Va., about 1843. He
became a "full graduate" of the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary in three years, though beginning without any previous
knowledge of theology or Greek. He was pastor of the Baptist
church at Newberry, S. C., for nine years. He was one of the
strongest and most original preachers of the Baptist denomination
in his day. He died at Newberry, S. C., October 21, 1885.