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3 unusual facts about Mark Perrin Lowrey


Mark Perrin Lowrey

He is known for being a Confederate brigadier general during the Civil War, for his works in the Mississippi Southern Baptist Convention, and for founding the Blue Mountain College.

Following several years of teaching at the Blue Mountain College Lowrey became very sick and in 1882 his doctors alerted him that his heart was very weak.

Beginning in 1853 he became a Southern Baptist preacher, serving primarily around the village of Kossuth, Mississippi.



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