W. Harrison Daniel

Wilbon Harrison Daniel 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.

Partial list of books authored

Baseball and Richmond: A History of the Professional Game, 1884–2000, 2002
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

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.