The Kinnears and their kin; a memorial volume of history, biography, and genealogy, with revolutionary and civil and Spanish war records; including manuscript of RevDavid Kinnear (1840) . ms County, Pa.,June 18, 1815, and became of subject of converting graceand power in Springfield, Summit Co., Ohio, Dec. 25, was licensed to preach by the Quarterly meeting Con-ference of the Middlebury Circuit in 1842, and admittedon trial by the Erie Conference at its session in 1843. was a tall, stout, athletic man, with a good con-stitution for labor of any kind; was also possessed of alar
The Kinnears and their kin; a memorial volume of history, biography, and genealogy, with revolutionary and civil and Spanish war records; including manuscript of RevDavid Kinnear (1840) . ms County, Pa.,June 18, 1815, and became of subject of converting graceand power in Springfield, Summit Co., Ohio, Dec. 25, was licensed to preach by the Quarterly meeting Con-ference of the Middlebury Circuit in 1842, and admittedon trial by the Erie Conference at its session in 1843. was a tall, stout, athletic man, with a good con-stitution for labor of any kind; was also possessed of alarge degree of mental power and religious zeal, and w4thproper culture might have made a successful Methodistpreacher. For what reason we know^ not, he soon retiredto the local ranks, where he has tried to make himself use-ful in that work. (Greggs History of Methodism, ErieConference, Vol. II, p. 210.) Jacob Young. A notable character appears as PresidingElder of the Ohio District in 1812. Jacob Young, a manof such evangelical simplicity and purity, such good sensein counsel, and perspicuity, and pertinence in speech, soentertaining in conversation, and of such cordiality in A<5. OLD CHURCH AT YOUNGSVILLE. PA 1825- 1882. AND THEIR KIN 81 manner and saintliness of character, that the most obstinateopposer and most fastidious critics were won by him, notwithstanding the faithfulness of his administrations, andsome obvious defects, made the more obnoxious to criti-cism by the peculiar recitative tone of his preaching. Ste-vens History of the M. E. Church, Vol. IV, p. 117.) He was born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, March19, 1776, near where Adam Poe had his famous conflictwith Big Foot, an Indian Chief. His childhood was besetwith frontier hardships and Indian perils. His mind wasearly impressed with religious truths and obligations. TheRev. Jacob Young, D. D., was bom in Allegheny County,Pennsylvania, March 19, 1776. His father was of theChurch of England, his mother of the
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