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. . Church, St. Jo-seph, Mo., was born in Frankfort, Ky., June 2, 1848, and is agreat grandson of Eld. Wm. Hickman, the first Baptist preacheron Kentucky soil. He was reared in Henderson, Ky., where helearned the print-ers trade. la theyear 1868, underthe preaching ofEev. B. T. Taylor(now of Missouri),he was conver
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. . Church, St. Jo-seph, Mo., was born in Frankfort, Ky., June 2, 1848, and is agreat grandson of Eld. Wm. Hickman, the first Baptist preacheron Kentucky soil. He was reared in Henderson, Ky., where helearned the print-ers trade. la theyear 1868, underthe preaching ofEev. B. T. Taylor(now of Missouri),he was convertedto Christianity;in August of thesame year he waslicensed to preachby the Baptistchurch in Hen-derson, and onemonth after thisentered George-town College,Kentucky, inwhich institutionhe graduated inthe year af-ter this he assumed charge, as pastor, of the East Baptist Church,Louisville, Ky., and continued three years. He then (in 1877)removed to Missouri, and was installed as pastor of the FirstBaptist Church of St. Joseph, where he is doing a most excellentwork in building up and developing the powers of the body overwhich he presides. His marriage with Miss Flora I. Johnson occurred in Louis-ville, Ky,, in 1877, the joyful i^rsue of which is a promising REV. WM. HARRIS. 476 CHURCHES AND ASSOCIATIONS OF THE PLATTE PURCHASE. As a preacher, Mr. Harris stands in the front ranks ; as a pas-tor, he is excelled by none. Elijah Shelton Dulin.*—On his fathers side he is descendedfrom the Huguenot family, Dulon. His mother belonged to theEnglish Quaker family, Shelton. E. S. Dulin was born near thebanks of the Potomac, Fairfax County, Virginia, January 18,1821. In 1823 his father moved to Washington, D. C, where hedied when the subject of our sketch was nine years old, leavinghis family entirely without support or income, his property all having beenswept away byhis indorsementsfor others. Thusearly the battleof life began withyoung work dur-ing th
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