C.E.W. Dobbs in the Baptist Encyclopedia

Dr.C.E.W. Dobbs
Ninteenth and early Twentieth Century Baptist Leader

Charles Edwin Willoughby Dobbs was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, August 12, 1840. He became a member of the Southern Baptist Church in Greensborough, NC in 1859 and entered the SBTS(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) in 1860. He received the D.D. degree from Baylor University in 1878. He served as pastor of Court Street and Fourth Street Baptist Churches in Portsmouth, VA until 1866 when he moved to Kentucky, serving as pastor of Providence, Bryans Station, Richmond First and Tates Creek churches among others from 1866 - 1873. He was Clerk of Tates Creek Association in 1868 and 1869.

Dobbs served as pastor of Bowling Green First Baptist from 1874 - 1880 and the First Baptist Church of Madison, IN from 1880-1884. He was pastor of the Baptist Church in Col,umbus, MS 1885-1890 and served as Associate Editor of the Baptist Church of Cartersville, GA 1892-1893; South Street Church, Indianapolis, IN 1894-1897; FBC, Washington, IN 1898. He served as Secretary of the Southern Baptist Convention 1878-1881. He was recording secretary of the Kentucky Baptist Convention 1871-1881. He became pastor of the Key West, FL Baptist Church beginning in 1912. Author of Studies on Baptism, a compilation of articles by nineteen nineteenth-century Baptist ministers on the subject of baptism; and a variety of additional pamplets dealing with the subject of baptism. He died in Louisville, Kentucky September 28, 1916.