page_title: James Huckins
section_title: 19th century Union
hierarchical_section_title: James Huckins / 19th century Union
caption_attribution_description: English: 1892 Aerial view from East-northeast of Baylor University (its two buildings are Burleson Hall, left, and Old Main, right) and adjacent Carroll Field. Cropped view of Waco, Texas 1892, a chromolithograph created by A. L. Westyard and originally owned by Shober &amp; Carqueville Lithographing Company, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. First published in 1892 by D. W. Ensign &amp; Company. The image is from a digital reproduction of the lithograph in the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, located in Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
context_page_description: Huckins James was an American frontier, ordained Baptist minister, the first Southern Baptist missionary of Texas, an educator and a church organizer.
context_section_description: As an influential frontier Baptist minister of Texas in the 19th century, he established schools and churches. He was a member of the Union Association, Baptist Home Mission Society, and the Baptist Educational Society in Texas and was one of the trustees of Baylor University when the institution was established in 1845. In 1859 he left Texas for the Baptist Church of South Carolina as a Confederate Army chaplain.
caption: Baylor university in 1882
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