. History of the First Presbyterian Church of Bellefontaine, Ohio, and addresses delivered at the celebration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the pastorate of the Reverend George L. Kalb, . n, and has since been in charge of the Secondor Immanuel Presbyterian church. There Mr. Shaw has built hishome wherein are gathered a family of one daughter and sixsons. Rev. JOHN McMILLAN STEVENSON. John McMillan Stevenson was born in West Alexander Pa. May 14, 1812. His fatherwas Rev. Joseph Stevenson,at that time pastor of thePresbyterian church at thatplace. His mother was Sar-ah Marquis. When he
. History of the First Presbyterian Church of Bellefontaine, Ohio, and addresses delivered at the celebration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the pastorate of the Reverend George L. Kalb, . n, and has since been in charge of the Secondor Immanuel Presbyterian church. There Mr. Shaw has built hishome wherein are gathered a family of one daughter and sixsons. Rev. JOHN McMILLAN STEVENSON. John McMillan Stevenson was born in West Alexander Pa. May 14, 1812. His fatherwas Rev. Joseph Stevenson,at that time pastor of thePresbyterian church at thatplace. His mother was Sar-ah Marquis. When he was thirteenyears old the family movedto Bellefontaine, Ohio, thena new region, with forests tobe felled and virgin soil tobe broken. Converted in hislate youth, the young manturned his thoughts to thegospel ministry. The begin-ning of his college educationwas secured at Miami Uni-versity, and was completedin Jefferson College, (nowWashington and Jefferson)where he graduated in theclass of 1836. He studiedtheology for a time in Lane Seminary, Dr. Lyman Beecher beingthen at the head of the faculty. Young Stevenson then became aninstructor at Kenyon College, and later took charge of a Girls. REV. lOHN MMILLAN STEVENSON, D. D. 86 PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HISTORY. Seminar}- at Athens, Ohio. After a service as Professor of Greekin the Ohio University, he was ordained to the ministry in became pastor of the Presbyterian church at Troy, Ohio. In1846 he resigned his pastorate to become District Secretary for theAmerican Tract Society, having general care of the work in fivestates. His services here were highly valued, but after three 3earshe returned to the pastorate, taking charge, in 1849, of the FirstPresbyterian church, New Albany, Indiana. He was the very suc-cessful and highly esteemed pastor of that church for about eightyears. In 1857 he was called to become one of the correspondingsecretaries of the American Tract Society in New York City, andin that work spent the remain
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