David Seth Doggett
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David Seth Doggett was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1866. He was born 26 January 1810 in Lancaster County, Virginia. He was descended from the Rev. John Doggett, a Church of England immigrant to Virginia about 1650, Rector of White Chapel Church in Lancaster County. He had Revolutionary forebearers, and his parents were Methodists. David was converted at the age of 17. David's father was a lawyer and David began the study of that profession, but changed to the ministry.
He was educated at the University of Virginia. He joined the Virginia Annual Conference in 1829, serving as an itinerant minister, traveling through the southern states. In 1866 he accepted a professorship at Randolph Macon College.
