A history of the Baptists in Missouri : embracing an account of the organization and growth of Baptist churches and associations : biographical sketches of ministers of the gospel and other prominent members of the denomination : the founding of Baptist institutions, periodicals, etc. . thers. Thusearly the battleof life began withyoung work dur-ing the day; dil-igent study farinto the nightand at all leisurehours, was therule and practiceof his early throughthe influence of aChristian moth-er he was broughtto Christ, and in1839 united withRET. E. s. DuiJN, ,
A history of the Baptists in Missouri : embracing an account of the organization and growth of Baptist churches and associations : biographical sketches of ministers of the gospel and other prominent members of the denomination : the founding of Baptist institutions, periodicals, etc. . thers. Thusearly the battleof life began withyoung work dur-ing the day; dil-igent study farinto the nightand at all leisurehours, was therule and practiceof his early throughthe influence of aChristian moth-er he was broughtto Christ, and in1839 united withRET. E. s. DuiJN, , the Calvcrt St. Baptist Church, Baltimore, and soon after determined to go as amissionary to Burmah. He entered Eichmond College in 1841,where he remained four years, seeing his mother but once duringthis time, earning the money each vacation to pay his expensesthe following term. Upon his graduation, he was elected prin-cipal of St. Brides Academy. Here, from overwork amid themalaria from the adjacent Dismal Swamp, his health gave way,and ho accepted the professorship of ancient languages in Hol-lins Institute. A year in this beautiful mountain region great-ly improved his health, but the hope of strength enough to go* Abridged from a sketch in Commonwealth of Missou7i, p. CHURCHES AND ASSOCIATIONS OF THE PLATTE PURCHASE. 477 as missionary to Burmah was abandoned. To perfect himself asa teacher, he spent the next year in taking a special course inthe University of Virginia. He was ordained as a minister atBaltimore, in August, 1848, and came to Missouri the followingOctober, settling as pastor of the Baptist church at Lexingtonin March, 1849. His present most estimable wife was Miss Sarah E. Gilkey, towhom he was married August 28, 1849; this being his first mar-riage. He was the first president of William Jewell College, andorganized that institution January 1, 1850. In the spring of 1856 he was recalled to the pastorate at Lex-ington, and in September following he beca
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