Texas Historical Marker

Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary

Fort Worth · Tarrant County · placed 1972

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Tarrant County, Texas

The story

Chartered March 14, 1908, for graduate education in Christian ministries. Moved here in 1910 from Waco, Texas. Original 200-acre campus tract and first building, Fort Worth Hall, were gifts of people of Fort Worth.

Control passed from Baptist General Convention of Texas to Southern Baptist Convention in 1925. First president (1908-14) was B.H. Carroll.

Successors: L.R. Scarborough, 1914-42; E.D. Head, 1942-53; J.

Howard Williams, 1953-58; Robert E. Naylor, 1958-. (1972)

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