The 12th essay in A Noble Company, volume 10, is on Patrick H. Mell (1814-1888).

For Baptists throughout the southern United States, but most notably in Georgia, Patrick Hues Mell was a larger than life figure who seemed to leave an indelible mark for nearly fifty years on both Baptist doctrine and Baptist polity. Following his death in January of 1888, the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention testified of P. H. Mell that his “words and acts were perhaps more thought of and more talked of than those of any Baptist of the United States.” --Kurt M. Smith