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Benjamin Whitfield was a pioneer Baptist minister who, in 1824, settled in Hinds County and organized Union Church in the Society Ridge community. A founder of the Mississippi Baptist Convention in 1836, he influenced that body to acquire Mississippi College in 1850.
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Clinton, Mississippi · United States
