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. . is a great-grandson of Davis Biggs, one of the pio-neer preachers of Northeastern Missouri; and the founder andthe first moderator of the Salt River Association. Wiley J. Patrick—son of Wiley J. and Margaret S. Patrick,was horn in Macon County, Missouri, January 3, 1840. His fath-er was reared in Kentucky and h
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. . is a great-grandson of Davis Biggs, one of the pio-neer preachers of Northeastern Missouri; and the founder andthe first moderator of the Salt River Association. Wiley J. Patrick—son of Wiley J. and Margaret S. Patrick,was horn in Macon County, Missouri, January 3, 1840. His fath-er was reared in Kentucky and his mother in Baltimore. Whenquite a child his parents moved with him to Hannibal. Sevenyears of his boyhood were spent in Illinois among strangers,and from the age of fourteen to twenty-one in Monroe County,laboring on a farm in the summer, and going to school some inthe winter. Two years of his early life he taught school. On the 18th of May, 1862, he professed conversion in his pri-vate room, and on the following day united with the SalemChurch, Monroe County, having been baptized by Rev. A, Here he was afterwards ordained and first becamepastor. The next autumn he preached his first sermon at Long-Branch Church. The period from this until June, 1864, was spent16. REV. JAMES D. BIGGS. 242 SALT RIVER ASSOCIATION. for the most part in going to school, the last year at William Jewell College. Hethen spent a year asmissionary of BethelAssociation. In1865-6 he was in aseries of revivals inLittle Bonne FemmeAssociation, and inthe latter year locat-ed as pastor of NewSalem, Nashvilleand other Eoanoke in thisyear he was electedcorresponding sec-retary of the Gener-al Association. In 1868 he remov-ed to Jefferson City,the capital of thestate, having becomepastor of the FirstBaptist Church inthat civy. Here he preached until the spring of 1870, when, accept-ing a call, he moved to Fulton. In 1872, ho was again missionary ofBethel Association and became pastor
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