Editor, historian and clergyman member 1899. Son of Samuel and Narcissa Cooper Boykin. Married Laura Nisbett, 10 May 1865. Children: Laurette N. and Eugenia N. Education: University of Georgia, B.A. (1851), M.A. (1854). Honorary degree: Mercer University, D. D. (1880).
The son of a well-to-do physician-planter, Samuel Boykin was educated in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Georgia. While a student at the University of Georgia he joined a Baptist church. After nearly a year of foreign travel following graduation from college, he farmed in Alabama and Florida (1852-60).
From 1860 to 1865 he was editor and owner of the Christian Index, a Georgia Baptist weekly newspaper published then in Macon. As might be expected, his editorial policy vigorously favored the broad missionary and educational activities of organized Georgia and Southern Baptist life, slavery, and the Confederacy-and just as vigorously attacked Lincoln and his administration. He attended school in Columbus, and also at Westchester, Penn., and at Bridgeport, Conn. He was converted in 1847, at a meeting conducted by Rev. Elbert Williams, the pastor at Columbus, and John E. Dawson, but formed no ecclesiastical relations until two years later while a student at Athens, where he joined the church, and was baptized by Rev. S. Landrum, the pastor. He graduated at the State University in 1851, after which he traveled in Europe for six months. He married on May 10, 1863, Miss Laura Josephine Nisbet of Macon, Georgia. The degree of Master of Arts was conferred on him by the State University in 1854, and in 1860, he was elected editor of the Christian Index, then owned by the Georgia Baptist Convention and published at Macon. He was for many years editor of the Sunday School paper "Kind Words." He is also the author of Memoirs of Hon. Howell Cobb, a work of great value, alike creditable to the head and the heart of the author, and worthy of the high character of the subject. He was a man of decided convictions; of firm purpose and resolute in action, while at the same time he had that true simplicity of character which worldly associations never impair.
Ironically, Reverend Samuel was pastor for a very short time and of only one church, The Second Baptist Church of Macon. He was partially deaf and left the pulpit to devote his efforts to his religious publications.
The son of a well-to-do physician-planter, Samuel Boykin was educated in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Georgia. While a student at the University of Georgia he joined a Baptist church. After nearly a year of foreign travel following graduation from college, he farmed in Alabama and Florida (1852-60).
From 1860 to 1865 he was editor and owner of the Christian Index, a Georgia Baptist weekly newspaper published then in Macon. As might be expected, his editorial policy vigorously favored the broad missionary and educational activities of organized Georgia and Southern Baptist life, slavery, and the Confederacy-and just as vigorously attacked Lincoln and his administration. He attended school in Columbus, and also at Westchester, Penn., and at Bridgeport, Conn. He was converted in 1847, at a meeting conducted by Rev. Elbert Williams, the pastor at Columbus, and John E. Dawson, but formed no ecclesiastical relations until two years later while a student at Athens, where he joined the church, and was baptized by Rev. S. Landrum, the pastor. He graduated at the State University in 1851, after which he traveled in Europe for six months. He married on May 10, 1863, Miss Laura Josephine Nisbet of Macon, Georgia. The degree of Master of Arts was conferred on him by the State University in 1854, and in 1860, he was elected editor of the Christian Index, then owned by the Georgia Baptist Convention and published at Macon. He was for many years editor of the Sunday School paper "Kind Words." He is also the author of Memoirs of Hon. Howell Cobb, a work of great value, alike creditable to the head and the heart of the author, and worthy of the high character of the subject. He was a man of decided convictions; of firm purpose and resolute in action, while at the same time he had that true simplicity of character which worldly associations never impair.
Ironically, Reverend Samuel was pastor for a very short time and of only one church, The Second Baptist Church of Macon. He was partially deaf and left the pulpit to devote his efforts to his religious publications.
Editor, historian and clergyman member 1899. Son of Samuel and Narcissa Cooper Boykin. Married Laura Nisbett, 10 May 1865. Children: Laurette N. and Eugenia N. Education: University of Georgia, B.A. (1851), M.A. (1854). Honorary degree: Mercer University, D. D. (1880).
The son of a well-to-do physician-planter, Samuel Boykin was educated in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Georgia. While a student at the University of Georgia he joined a Baptist church. After nearly a year of foreign travel following graduation from college, he farmed in Alabama and Florida (1852-60).
From 1860 to 1865 he was editor and owner of the Christian Index, a Georgia Baptist weekly newspaper published then in Macon. As might be expected, his editorial policy vigorously favored the broad missionary and educational activities of organized Georgia and Southern Baptist life, slavery, and the Confederacy-and just as vigorously attacked Lincoln and his administration. He attended school in Columbus, and also at Westchester, Penn., and at Bridgeport, Conn. He was converted in 1847, at a meeting conducted by Rev. Elbert Williams, the pastor at Columbus, and John E. Dawson, but formed no ecclesiastical relations until two years later while a student at Athens, where he joined the church, and was baptized by Rev. S. Landrum, the pastor. He graduated at the State University in 1851, after which he traveled in Europe for six months. He married on May 10, 1863, Miss Laura Josephine Nisbet of Macon, Georgia. The degree of Master of Arts was conferred on him by the State University in 1854, and in 1860, he was elected editor of the Christian Index, then owned by the Georgia Baptist Convention and published at Macon. He was for many years editor of the Sunday School paper "Kind Words." He is also the author of Memoirs of Hon. Howell Cobb, a work of great value, alike creditable to the head and the heart of the author, and worthy of the high character of the subject. He was a man of decided convictions; of firm purpose and resolute in action, while at the same time he had that true simplicity of character which worldly associations never impair.
Ironically, Reverend Samuel was pastor for a very short time and of only one church, The Second Baptist Church of Macon. He was partially deaf and left the pulpit to devote his efforts to his religious publications.
The son of a well-to-do physician-planter, Samuel Boykin was educated in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Georgia. While a student at the University of Georgia he joined a Baptist church. After nearly a year of foreign travel following graduation from college, he farmed in Alabama and Florida (1852-60).
From 1860 to 1865 he was editor and owner of the Christian Index, a Georgia Baptist weekly newspaper published then in Macon. As might be expected, his editorial policy vigorously favored the broad missionary and educational activities of organized Georgia and Southern Baptist life, slavery, and the Confederacy-and just as vigorously attacked Lincoln and his administration. He attended school in Columbus, and also at Westchester, Penn., and at Bridgeport, Conn. He was converted in 1847, at a meeting conducted by Rev. Elbert Williams, the pastor at Columbus, and John E. Dawson, but formed no ecclesiastical relations until two years later while a student at Athens, where he joined the church, and was baptized by Rev. S. Landrum, the pastor. He graduated at the State University in 1851, after which he traveled in Europe for six months. He married on May 10, 1863, Miss Laura Josephine Nisbet of Macon, Georgia. The degree of Master of Arts was conferred on him by the State University in 1854, and in 1860, he was elected editor of the Christian Index, then owned by the Georgia Baptist Convention and published at Macon. He was for many years editor of the Sunday School paper "Kind Words." He is also the author of Memoirs of Hon. Howell Cobb, a work of great value, alike creditable to the head and the heart of the author, and worthy of the high character of the subject. He was a man of decided convictions; of firm purpose and resolute in action, while at the same time he had that true simplicity of character which worldly associations never impair.
Ironically, Reverend Samuel was pastor for a very short time and of only one church, The Second Baptist Church of Macon. He was partially deaf and left the pulpit to devote his efforts to his religious publications.
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