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Rev. Phillip Fisher Morris (c.1852-1923) was the founder and first president of Lynchburg Baptist Seminary, 1888-1891, known later as Virginia Theological Seminary & College. Morris was also pastor of Lynchburg's largest African-American church, Court Street Baptist, for 17 years, before leading several hundred members of the divided congregation to establish Eighth Street Baptist Church in 1898. His wife, Angie, was a school teacher in Lynchburg for almost thirty years.