BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

OF

Living Old Men,

OF THE

CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,

IN SIX VOLUMES. [No other volumes were ever published.]

VOL. I.

BY E. B. CRISMAN, D. D.

Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe,
He still remembered that he once was young:
His easy presence checked no decent joy.
--Armstrong.

 

ST. LOUIS, MO.
PERRIN AND SMITH, STEAM BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS
1877.

CONTENTS.

 RICHARD BEARD, D.D., age 77 years

5

 REV. MATTHEW HOUSTON BONE, age 74 years

 18

 JOHN L. DILLARD, D.D., age 84 years

42

 REV. ROBERT M'GEE KING, A.M., age 65 years

53

 BENJAMIN H. PIERSON, D.D., age 74 years

71

 REV. CLEMENS MEANS, age 77 years

85

 RULING ELDER THOMAS HAMILTON

93
 RULING ELDER JAMES M. HOWRY, age 71 years

107

RULING ELDER IRA KINNINGHAM, age 81 years 

116

 RULING ELDER JOHN HALL, age 86 years

125

 RULING ELDER JAMES HILL BONE, age 80 years

130

 

PREFACE.

I HAVE three objects in publishing this series of books: First, It is a well known fact that mankind read biographies with more avidity than they do any other class of reading matter. I wish to utilize this fact, and thus promote the taste for reading in our Church. Second, To afford the young men of our Church easy access to examples of Christian piety and labor worthy of imitation. Third, To preserve for the future historian a great deal of our denominational history, which might otherwise be lost.

Other volumes will follow this in rapid succession. [No other volumes were ever published.]

Whoever will read these volumes will be entertained and greatly profited. They who will not read, could not receive profit from books, though the world were full of them of the best character.

E. B. CRISMAN.

St. Louis, Mo., May 10th, 1877.

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