Dobbs, Hoyt M.

Hoyt M. Dobbs was born on November 16, 1878 in Antioch, Alabama to Samuel and Laura Clayton Dobbs. He attended Southern University (now Birmingham-Southern), graduating in 1899; and Vanderbilt University (1904), earning an A.M. and B.D., respectively. He also held honorary doctorates in literature, divinity, and law. Hoyt Dobbs married Lessie Ruth Jackson on November 14, 1906, and the couple had three children.

Dobbs was licensed to preach in 1901 in the North Alabama conference, becoming a full elder in 1908. His early charges were Mt. Vernon Church, Fountain Heights, and Highlands in Birmingham, Alabama; Central and Troost Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri; and First Church in Fort Worth, Texas. He served the Perkins School of Theology between 1916 and 1920 as professor of Christian doctrine and as Dean. Dobbs resigned the deanship in March 1920 after a short tenure and was succeeded by Paul B. Kern.

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