Henry
C. Vedder (1853-1935), was born in DeRuyter,
New York. The historian, seminary professor, editor, and theologian,
spent most of his life in New England. He received college training at the
University of Rochester and a seminary education at Rochester Theological
Seminary. He served in editorial capacity with The Examiner (a New
York Baptist newspaper) for eighteen years (1876-1894) and the Baptist
Quarterly Review for seven years (1885-1892). Upon his retirement as
professor of church history at Crozer Theological Seminary (1894-1926), he
joined the editorial staff of the Chester Times, Chester,
Pennsylvania (1929-1935). Most of the approximately dozen books he wrote
were devoted to historical problems. The volume in which he best delineated
his position on the origin of Baptists was "A Short History of the
Baptists", in 1907 while a member of the American Baptist
Convention. Vedder inexplicably has
problems with pinpointing Baptism by immersion in history which is probably the reason why
he is ignored by Cathcart.
