Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary was chartered on March 14, 1908, for graduate education in Christian ministries. It moved here in 1910 from Waco, Texas. The original 200-acre campus tract and the first building, Fort Worth Hall, were gifts of the people of Fort Worth. Control passed from the Baptist General Convention of Texas to the Southern Baptist Convention in 1925. Its first president, from 1908 to 1914, was B.H. Carroll, followed by L.R. Scarborough from 1914 to 1942, E.D. Head from 1942 to 1953, J. Howard Williams from 1953 to 1958, and Robert E. Naylor from 1958 onward.