James Alfred Dunn Podd, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1855
Place of Birth: Nevis, Saint Kitts and Nevis
Date of Death: 23-Dec-1886
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About James Alfred Dunn Podd
- James Alfred Dunn Podd (March 16, 1855 – December 23, 1886) was a leading Baptist preacher in Chicago, Illinois.
- Podd was born in Nevis, West Indies on March 16, 1855.
- Podd's father was a leading minister in the Wesleyan Methodist Church.
- As a boy, he and his family moved to the Island of St.
- Christopher.
- Podd went to England for his studies.
- Upon completion, he returned to the West Indies where he received a government appointment in the department of education.
- He rose to the position of superintendent of schools for the island.
- He also worked as an editor of a journal on the island.
- When his mother died, he felt called to another path and moved to Canada, where he entered the ministry of the British Methodist Episcopal Church.
- He left this church, converting to the Baptist religion and becoming pastor at a Baptist church in St.
- Catherine's, Ontario.
- In 1879, he moved to London, Ontario to preach at a church there.In December 1881 he was asked by Olivet Baptist Church in Chicago to succeed Richard DeBaptiste as its pastor, and he moved on February 1, 1882.
- In February 1883 he moved to Bethesda Baptist Church on Chicago's South Side.
- Podd was charged a number of times with fathering children outside of marriage, but was always exonerated.
- Under Podd's leadership, the congregation built a chapel on 34th and Butterfield.
- Podd was very active in Baptist church leadership and participated and presented at Baptist National Conventions.
- His health failed in 1886 and he spent some time on the East Coast hopeful that the sea air would help him recover.
- In late 1886 he was in Florida on a trip to recover his health when he died on December 23.
- He was unmarried.
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