William Porcher Dubose

William Porcher Dubose is a South Carolina historical marker in Winnsboro, Fairfield County, dedicated 1965.

Fairfield County · dedicated 1965 · Congress St., Winnsboro

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This noted author-theologian, born at this site April 11, 1836, educated at Mt. Zion Institute, the Citadel, and the University of Virginia, served as an officer and as chaplain in the Confederate War. He was rector in Winnsboro and Abbeville, and in 1871 became Chaplain and Professor at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. He died in 1918.

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Marker data: South Carolina Historical Marker Program, SC Department of Archives and History
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William Porcher Dubose

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