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Shelburne (JAMES M an American educator)

JAMES M., an American educator, born near Taylorsville, Spencer co., Ky., in 1867. He was educated at Georgetown Ge College, Ky graduated from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in 1900. In the same year he was ordained to the Baptist ministry, and filled pastorates in Alabama and Virginia. In 1913 he was elected president of Howard College, serving until 1917, when he engaged in educational work for the War Work Council of the Y. M. C. A. From 1918 he was pastor of the First Church of Gadsden , Ala.