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PIPER, WILLIAM ERNEST (1867-1927)

PIPER, WILLIAM ERNEST, Baptist minister, Whitneyville and Little Southwest, 1912-14; b. Brighton, England, 21 Jul 1867, s/o William Ernest Piper Sr; m. Rachel Bird; d. Farnborough, Kent, England, 9 Oct 1927.

William E. Piper was educated in England and studied for the ministry at the Pastors' College which was conducted in London by the evangelist Charles H. Spurgeon. He took five years to finish the program, graduating in 1895. Later, while supply preaching and ministering part- and full-time, he satisfied the requirements for a university degree (BA 1911).

In 1912 Piper made his way to Canada and was engaged for a one-year term as minister of the Baptist churches at Whitneyville and Little Southwest. When the term expired he was prevailed upon to remain an additional year. He did so and then accepted an invitation to Kingsboro and East Point, at the remote easterly tip of Prince Edward Island. He was subsequently the Baptist minister at Cavendish, P.E.I., and Margaretville, N.S.

In 1921, at age fifty-four, Piper enrolled at the Bangor Theological Seminary in Maine, and he was granted a BD degree in 1923. Further study, pastoral service in Maine and at North Head on Grand Manan Island, and the writing of one or more articles for The Maritime Baptist occupied his time until 1926, when he returned to England. He had a church at Blunham in Bedford when he was killed in a road accident in 1927, at age sixty-one. His survivors were his wife, Rachel Bird, and a daughter, Alice Muriel Kathleen Piper, who was born at Whitneyville in 1913.

Sources

[b/d] Piper family data / Acadia archives; Advocate 15 May 1912, 19 Jun 1913, 26 Oct 1916; annual 1928; Leader 15 Jun 1962, 15 May 1964; Maritime Baptist 27 Jan 1926


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