William J. Seymour

American Holiness Pentecostal preacher (1870–1922)

William Joseph Seymour (May 2, 1870 – September 28, 1922) was an American Holiness Pentecostal preacher. Seymour was the second of eight children born in an African-American family to emancipated slaves. He was a student of the early Pentecostal minister Charles Parham, and he adopted Parham's belief that speaking in tongues was the sign of receiving the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

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