Wilbon Harrison Daniel (September 25, 1922 – December 30, 2013) was a history professor at University of Richmond, Virginia Intermont College, Vanderbilt University and Duke University who authored numerous books, articles, and essays. He specialized in Southern church history.Obituary
Partial list of books authored Baseball and Richmond: A History of the Professional Game, 1884–2000, 2002 (with Scott P. Mayer) Bedford County, Virginia, 1840–1860, 1985 Frontier Baptist Activities, 1780–1803, 1947 Historical Atlas of the Methodist Movement, 2009 History at the University of Richmond, 1991 Jimmie Foxx: The Life and Times of a Baseball Hall of Famer, 1907–1967, 2004 Practicing the Future Perfect: Ministry Practices and Communal Mission in the New Testament, 2004 River Road Church, Baptist: A History, 1945–1995, 1996 Southern Protestantism in the Confederacy, 1989 The University of Richmond, 1971–1999, 2000 Virginia Baptists, 1860–1902, 1987
Notes His works have been cited heavily by other authors and writers, including historian Rhys Isaac, historian Philip S. Foner, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Professor Emeritus Charles H. Lippy,Bibliography of Religion in the South Princeton University Professor Emeritus John Frederick Wilson,Church and State in America: The Colonial and early national periods University of Mississippi professor Charles Reagan Wilson,Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865–1920 historian David Brion Davis,The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770–1823 and historian Charles Royster.The Destructive War His biography of Major League Baseball Hall of Fame player Jimmie Foxx was reviewed in the Journal of Sports History.LA84.org
Personal life Daniel was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, and attended New London Academy in Forest, Virginia. He later attended Lynchburg College, Vanderbilt University and Duke University. He was married to biologist Margaret Anne Daniel; they had one child, the professor, writer and editor Anne Margaret Daniel. He died at home at the age of 91, in Richmond, Virginia.
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