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American evangelist and broadcaster (1883–1968)

For other people known as "Doctor Bob", see Doctor Bob (disambiguation).

Robert Reynolds Jones Sr. (October 30, 1883 – January 16, 1968) was an American evangelist, pioneer religious broadcaster, and the founder and first president of Bob Jones University.

Early years

Bob Davis Reynolds Jones^[1] was the eleventh of twelve children born to William Alexander and Georgia Creel Jones.

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In 1883, when Bob was born, Alex Jones, a Confederate veteran, was working a small farm in Dale County, Alabama, but within months the family moved to Brannon Stand west of Dothan. All the unmarried Jones children helped work the farm there, and Bob Jones often sold the family vegetables door-to-door in Dothan.

Jones later recalled, "We may have been a little undernourished, but we built some character."^[2]

Jones's elementary schooling was limited by modern standards, but the boy early exhibited a quick min