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CHAPTER V.
EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS.
A Missouri statesman (?) declared: "Missouri is a good place in which to be born, a good place to live, and if a man must die it is as good a place as any in which to die." The first and last of these statements are applicable to Presbyterian edu- cational institutions. The Presbyterians of Southwest Missouri have received and cherished the tradition that ours is "a college building rather than a cathedral building church."
"Seven cities claimed to be the birthplace of Homer dead Through which the living Homer begged his bread."
. At least as many would-be cities have been the birthplace of Presbyterian educational institutions, but as they failed to supply "bread" in sufficient quantities an untimely demise was the in- evitable consequence. The pioneer ministers were teachers as well as pastors and evangelists, and a church of any pretensions had a school as an annex. With the progress of the public school began the decline of the secular teaching of the church save here and there, where more pretentious efforts were made.
Before the Civil War the North Prairie Institute at Cross Timbers, in Hickory County; gained an enviable local patronage and reputation. At least two of its students entered the Presby- terian ministry. But the desolations of war "left not one stone upon another." Our "fathers and brethren" of the Presbyteries of Southwest Missouri and Osage seriously considered the project of founding an educational institution to commemorate the re- union of '69 and '70, but presumably by reason of the urgent calls for evangelization and the lack of material resources the project was abandoned.
In 1869 the Mount Zion Church of Cave Spring completed its second house of worship, which was erected for school as well as religious purposes. The school conducted there attracted young people as far west as Mount Vernon. The Presbyterians of Springfield bent their energies to the establishment and main- tenance of Drury College (founded in 1873), and so hearty was their co-operation that the impression gained credence far and
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wide that Drury was under joint control of the Congregational- ists and Presbyterians. Under this impression in 1882, I eame very near leaving my country home in Johnson County to enter Drury, but the founding of a school at Sedalia just at that time led me to matrienlate nearer home; and although later years found Drury completely in the Congregational column, within the last decade generous Presbyterians of the East have responded to the appeals for endowment on the representation that the sehool edueates more Presbyterians than Congregationalists.
After Calvary Church abandoned its first house of worship it was converted into a private seminary for young ladies. This school was conducted by a Presbyterian lady of refinement and eulture, and was strongly religious in its influences.
Allusion has already been made to the two-story. structure of the church at Mount Vernon. Here a flourishing academy in the late eighties and the early nineties gave many Lawrence County young people a taste for learning that sent them to other schools to complete their education. But the most pretentious and the most persistent of our educational enterprises is the school founded at Carthage under the benign aegis of that friend of the young-Rev. W. S. Knight, D. D.
The origin and purposes of this school are set forth in an address delivered by Dr. Knight at the laying of the cornerstone June 4th, 1887. I quote:
"Carthage Collegiate Institute has sprung into existence in obedience to a necessity long felt in our city and region. We have had facilities second to no other section for the training of our youth by means of our excellent public schools. But beyond that we have had to send our chil- dren away to other higher schools of learning for the lack of one of our own. I was told a year or so ago by one who took the trouble to count that at least fifty young ladies and men were annually sent out of Jasper County to pursue their course of education elsewhere, which simply means that from $20,000 to $25,000 were expended in other communities which might have been retained at home. Such facts as these, and the intelli- gence and enterprise of our city and region, and the growing demand of our favored Southwest have been pushing to the surface the germ that must *
develope into the institute of the future. * * The Congregational Church is represented in Drury College, Springfield; Baptist, at Pierce City and Bolivar, Cumberland Presbyterian at Greenfield, M. E. Church at Marionville and Nevada, Christian at Ash Grove, Methodist South at Neosho .* In connection with the Presbyterian Church there has been no literary institution in a territory embracing at least one-fourth of the State of Missouri. This has led to the conception of founding an institution at Carthage which might interfere with no other and yet draw patronage from a wide scope of country. The steps that have been taken date back for the last three or four years in obedience to a necessary law that a living thing that deserves to live must be a thing of growth.' *
* * In 1883 Rev. Dr. J. G. Reaser, our President-elect, was invited to come down from St.
*The college cemetery is not monopolized by tombstones over the re- mains of Presbyterian institutions .- Ed.
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Louis and the first public meeting was held on December 17th. * It was evident that in the view of many the time had come when such a project ought to be inaugurated. * * Not until the autumn of 1884 * was there any organized effort undertaken. Rev. Dr. H. D. Ganse, of Chi- cago, Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Aid for Colleges, came out on request in December, 1884, and it was then decided as the first step to adopt articles of incorporation. * * On the 18th of May, 1885, the present site was chosen. *
* Just a year ago it was decided to open the school in the fall in the building that was to be erected for its own use by the Presbyterian Church, and teachers were secured. November 1st, 1886, action was taken by the Board of Trustees to proceed at once in the cir- culation of a subscription for the purchase of grounds and the erection of a building. *
* * * The effort was eminently sucessful. * * The grounds were purchased, costing $3,100. Plans were at once sought to com- bine both convenience and architectural beauty, and April- 7, 1887, the pres- ent plan was adopted, to cost in round numbers $14,000. * * *
We have called to the Presidency a man widely known, of large experience, and a thoroughly cultured Christian gentleman, Rev. Dr. J. G. Reaser, of West- minster College, Fulton, Mo. * * * I may say that the board realizes
* * the inevitable struggle that must enter into the opening. years. *
What has been achieved is before you-how wisely you can judge as you stand here on this eminence in the loveliest part of our city, and with the magnificent prospect that will be spread out to the vision of all who through coming years will, as we confidentially believe, throng this building, whose fair proportions will soon be a prominent feature and ornament of the magnificent scenery that spreads around it. And we believe that the beau- tiful and healthful surroundings will be but typical of the pure and healthful influences that will go out from this spot in refining and molding the character of those who are to adorn society and be the intelligent and successful actors in the material and moral interests of the great future before us."
When prophecy has become history the query arises, Did the trustees realize the struggles that were before them? Through the Presidencies of Rev. J. G. Reaser, D. D., Rev. Dwight C. Hanna and Mr. Salem G. Patterson the school had a checquered career, realizing some of the early ideals as to the formation of character and certainly the full complement of the expectations as to struggles. On Memory Day, a score of years after its founding, Miss Gussie Knight said: "Of the forty-seven grad- mates who have gone out, but few are to be found yet lingering in Carthage. California claims several, China one, Seattle one, Mississippi one, and others scattered throughout Southwest Mis- somri."
For a few years the school was run as a private institution and then at the dawn of this century Rev. W. S. Knight, D. D., was called from a St. Louis church to the Presidency and gave to the ardnous duties of that office the six closing years of his life. After his death in November, 1905, Mrs. Knight carried on the school for the rest of the school year, whereupon the mantle of the father fell upon the son, D. M. Knight, in whose hands we leave the institution. After the death of Dr. Knight, Dr. Shep-
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herd, of Webb City. "kindly and acceptably took charge of the classes in Bible study," and both teachers and scholars, as well as the members of his own family, seemed to be imbued with the idea that an added incentive was given to make this school a success and in some measure a worthy memorial of that life of "sweetness and light" whose brain conceived and whose unre- quited toils rescued the institution.
The historian treads on dangerous ground when he begins to prophesy. Nevertheless I venture a suggestion. Over the threshold of Carthage Collegiate Institute must be written am- plius, or else it can remain worthy of its traditions and birth throes only by a changed career. The very excellence of the Carthage public schools is a barrier to the welfare of any save an institution that does work appreciably beyond. For this larger work larger resources are imperative. I have suggested an alter- native. As our churches are now taking hold of various plans for the Christian care and nurture of students at the State uni- versities, it may be more than an iridescent dream that the time will come when county seats will have dormitory homes under church auspices for the Christian nurture of the stalwart sons of the soil that come to the high school from the country to get glimpse of the world of letters.
(Since this chapter was written the school has again closed its doors.)
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CHAPTER VI.
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SOME PRESBYTERIAL STATISTICS.
Statistics are ordinarily accounted dry and uninteresting. That depends largely upon the way they are read and the pur- pose they are intended to subserve. There is no more reason for reading this chapter consecutively than there is for a consecutive reading of a dictionary. But the dictionary when consulted on appropriate occasions is invaluable. There are times when friends or loved ones of a given minister will cherish the information here given as to his labors and positions of trust in the Presby- tery. And distant scenes may reverberate with eloquent appeals for Home Missions and other benevolences based on the text "Freely ye have received, freely give." The historians of local churches will find materials for their sketches already gathered from sources not now easily accessible; and the statistician who loves statistics just because he is built that way will peruse these pages with avidity-and doubtless consider this the most interest- ing chapter in the book! It is largely on his account that this chapter is inserted. And if it is any satisfaction to him he may ponder the facts that for his delectation the writer has expended an immense amount of toil and the printer has doubled up on the price per page! The average reader may turn over these leaves hastily until he comes again to reading matter.
PRESBYTERIAL REGISTER
PRESBYTERY OF OSAGE-NEW SCHOOL
Place of Meeting
Date
Moderator
Stated Clerk
Temporary Clerk
Mt. Zion Ch. (Cave Spring) .... .
.. April 26, 1866 ...
. Rev. A. G. Taylor
Rev. J. M. Brown
.Rev. W. S. Messmer
Prairie Grove (Springfield Ch. ) now Bellvue ...
Sent. 14, 1866
Rev. J. M. Brown
Rev. J. M. Brown
Rev. W. S. Measmer
* Salem
.April 4-6, 1867
(No quorum)
*Butler
May 3. 1867
Not named
Rev. J. M. Brown
Rev. A. G. Taylor
Cave Springs (Mt Zion ch.) ..
...... Oct. 10, 1867
Rev. A. G. Taylor
.Rev. J. M. Brown
.Rev. J. M. Brown
*Osceola, Apr 23, 1868
.. Apr. 23, 1868 ...
.. Rev. J. M. Brown
Rev. J. M. Brown
Rev. E. M. Halbert
*Butler
. Sept. 27, 1868
Rev. S. G. Clark
Rev. J. M. Brown
Rev. E. M. Halbert
*Sunny Side
Apr. 1, 1869
Rev. E. M. Halbert
Rev. J. M. Brown
Rev. J. M. Brown
Cave Springs Mt. Zion Ch
Ang. 19, 1869
Rev. A. G. Taylor
Rev. J. M. Brown
Rev. E. M. Halbert
Germantown
Apr. 14, 1870
Rev. J. M. Brown
Rev. J. M. Brown
Elder A. D. Taylor
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PRESBYTERY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI-OLD SCHOOL
Place of Meeting
Time
Moderator
Stated Clerk
Temporary Clerk
Springfield (Calvary Ch) ..
June 22, 1865
Rev. John McFarland
Rev. John Giffen ..
(Elected June 24)
Greenfield ( Ebenezer Ch) ....
Sept. 28, 1865
.. Rev. 'John McFarland
.Rev. John Giffen ...
.Elder Geo. C. See
* Deepwater
Nov. 23, 1866
.Rev. John McFarland
Rev. J. A. Paige
.Elder Geo. C. See
( Elected 11-24-'66)
Mt. Vernon
Apr. 18, 1867
.W. R. Fulton ..
.Rev. J. A. Paige ...
. ... Charles Sheppard
Springfield Calvary Ch
.. Sent. 12, 1867
.Rev. J. A. Paige
.Rev. J. A. Paige.
-Elder W. L. Seroggs
Greenfield ( Ebenezer Ch)
Apr. 2, 1868
.Rev. John McFarland
Rev. J. A. Paige
.. Elder Geo. C. See
Carthage
Sept. 3, 1868
„Rev. J. W. Pinkerton
Rev. J. A. Paige
Elder A. C. Schell
Neosho
.. March 25, 1869 .. Rev. B. F. Powelson
Rev. J. A. Paige.
.Elder W. L. Seroggs
Cave Springs (Spec. Ses.)
Ang. 19, 1869
.Rev. B. F. Powelson
Rev. J. A. Paige ..
Reg. Ses. changed to this date and place ...
Ang. 20, 1869 .Rev. W. R. Fulton
Rev. J. A. Paige .... .Rev. J. W. Pinkerton
*Deepwater
Apr. 14, 1870 .. Rev. J. A. Paige. .Rev. J. A. Paige ..
„Elder W. R. Gorton
No quorum until 15th.
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.Elder Geo. C. See
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PRESBYTERY OF OZARK (Only Regular Meetings Given)
Place of Meeting
Date
Moderator
Stated Clerk
Temp. Clerk
1
Greenfield
.. Sept. 29, 1870
.. Rev. John McFarland
.Rev. James A. Paige. .. .....
Rev. E. M. Halbert
Springfield
Mar. 30, 1871
.Rev. Enos M. Halbert.
Rev. James A. Paige ..
Elder A. C. Schell
Licking
.. Oct. 5, 1871
.Rev. Leonidas J. Matthews .. Rev, J. A. Paige
Rev. J. M. Brown
Rev. W. R. Fulton.
Neosho
.... Apr. 11, 1872
.Rev. Wm. R. Fulton
.. Rev. Wm. R. Fulton.
.Rev. W. L. Miller
Ozark Prairie
... Sept. 13, 1872
Rev. S. N. D. Martin
Rev. W. R. Fulton
.Elder A. G. Porter
Carthage
.Apr. 10, 1873
.Rev. W. L. Miller.
.Rev. W. R. Fulton ...
... Rev. C. H. Dunlap
Conway
.Oct. 11, 1873
.Rev. H. A. Tucker
Rev. W. R. Fulton
.Rev. B. F. Powelson
Springfield
.. Apr. 24, 1874.
Rev. B. F. Powelson
Rev. W. R. Fulton
Elder D. L. Lander
Salem
Sept. 24, 1874
Rev. W. R. Fulton.
.Rev. W. R. Fulton
Elder T. H. Allin
Buffalo
.. Apr. 9, 1875
.Rev. W. R. Fulton, and
Rev. W. R. Fulton
.. Rev. E. M. Halbert
on his resignation, Rev. C. H. Dunlap
Cave Spring
.. Oct. 7, 1875
.. Rev. Squire Glascock ....
.. Rev. W. R. Fulton
.. Elder W. R. Gorton and
Rev. W. S. Knight
Joplin
.. Man
8, 1876
.Rev. Enos M. Halbert.
.. Rev. W. R. Fulton.
. .. Elder T. H. Allin
1
Greenfield
... Sept. 28. 1876
Rev. Wm. S. Knight ..
.Rev. W. R. Fulton
Elder D. L. Lander
Granby
Mar.
29,
1877. Rev. D. L. Lander.
Rev. W. R. Fulton ..
Rev. J. B. Vawter
Bellview
... Sept. 19, 1877
Rev. D. K. Campbell.
.. Rev. W. R. Fulton ..
.. Rev. W. S. Knight and
Elder Wm, Cochrane
Ozark Prairie
.Mar. 14, 1878
Rev. T. H. Allin
Rev. W. R. Fulton.
... Rev. D. L. Lander
Preston
.. Sept. 5, 1878
Rev. Wm. R. Fulton
.Rev. W. R. Fulton and
D. L. Lander
Elder W. R. Gorton
Webb City
.Apr. 1, 1879
Rev. W. L. Miller
Rev. D. L. Lander.
„Elder Sylvanus Cadwallader
Springfield
.Oct. 7, 1879
Rev. W. S. Knight
Rev. D. L. Lander and
Elder J. G. Irwin and Chas. Sheppard
Jo~lin
Apr. 13, 1880
Rev. W. R. Fulton.
W. S. Knight.
.Elder J. G. Irwin
Grace Church
... Oct. 5, 1880.
Rev. W. A. Cravens.
.W. S. Knight.
Elder W. R. Gorton
Greenfield
.. Mar. 11, 1881
.Rev. J. J. Marks, D. D.
... W. S. Knight.
.. Sylvanus Cadwallader
Grand Prairie ( Willard)
.... Sept. 28, 1881
Rev. B. F. Powelson.
W. S. Knight ..
.Henry C. Meade
Springfield
.... Apr. 11, 1882
Rev. J. P. Solomon ..
.W. S. Knight.
.C. F. McElroy
Neosho
.. Sept. 26, 1882.
Rev. D. P. Putnam, D. D .... W. S. Knight.
.W. R. Gorton and Rev. C. C. Hembree
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PRESBYTERY OF OZARK (Only Regular Meetings Given)
Place of Meeting
Date
Moderator
Stated Clerk
Temp. Clerk
Ash Grove
... Apr. 10, 1883
Rev. G. F. Davis
W. S. Knight
.. W. W. Johnston and John Massey .. F. R. Farrand
Carthage
Sept. 18, 1883
.Rev. G. H. Williamson ........ W. S. Knight
Greenfield
Apr. 1, 1884
Rev. J. J. Marks, D. D ......... W. S. Knight.
.. J. D. Peers
Eureka Springs, Ark
... Sept. 30, 1884
Rev. W. B. MeElwee .. W. S. Knight.
.W. R. Gorton and C. W. Likens
Lockwood
.. Apr, 28, 1885
.Rev. E. A. Hamilton.
.W. S. Knight.
... J. G. Irwin
Neosho
.Sept. 15, 1885
Rev. G. T. Thompson.
.. W. S. Knight.
.Rev. E. P. Keach
Golden City
.Apr. 16, 1886
.Rev. G. F. Davis
.. W. S. Knight.
Rev. E. P. Keach
Ozark Prairie
.Sept. 14, 1886
.Rev. T. R. Easterday. .. W. S. Knight.
Elder W. R. Gorton and 8. Cadwallader
Springfield (Second Ch)
.April 5, 1887
.Rev. H. B. Fry, D. D .... . .... W. S. Knight ..
.... C. W. Likens
Carthage
Sept.
3, 1887
Rev. G. H. Williamson. .... .. W. S. Knight ..
.Rev. W. G. Banker
West Plains
April
10, 1888
Rev. J. G. Reaser, D. D .. W. S. Knight
-Elder C. W. Likens snd
A. Kennedy
Bolivar
.. . Sept. 25, 1888
Rev. T. H. Cleland, D. D .... W. S. Knight ..
Rev. G. W. Banker and C. D. Lymsn
Ash Grove
April 9. 1889 Rev. W. G. Banker
.W. S. Knight
Elder C. F. MeElroy and
Irwin
Sept. 10. 1889
.. Rev. R. W. Ely
.. W. S. Knight
.. G. W. Anthony
Webb City
April 15, 1890.
.Rev. J. F. Martin
.W. S. Knight
Rev. W. G. Banker and
A. Kennedy
Greenfield
Sept. 9,
1890
.. Rev. J. E. Leyda
.W. S. Knight and
W. W. Calhoun
Springfield (Calvary) ..
April 4,
1891
.Rev. E. A. Hamilton.
.R. W. Ely ..
Eureka Springs, Ark
... Sept. 15. 1891
.Rev. J. R. Gass
.R. W. Ely.
.Rev. H. M. Campbell .Elder W. B. Skinner and J. Kenton
Mount Vernon
April 12, 1892
.Rev. D. C. Hanna .R.
W. Ely.
.R. L. Galbreath and Ambrose Haydon .Rev. E. E. Stringfield
Neosho
. Sept. 13.
1892
.. Rev. J. A. Gerhard. .. R.
W. Ely ..
Ash Grove
.April 13, 1893
.Rev. G. H. Duty. .R.
W. Ely ..
.Elder G. W. Lawyer
Greenfield
... Sept. 12,
1893
Rev. E. E. Stringfield .R.
W. Ely ...
.Rev. N. D. Bristol
Bolivar
.. April 14, 1894
.Rev. T. H. Cleland, D. D .... R.
W. Ely ..
.W. F. V. Lippe
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C. W. Likens
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PRESBYTERY OF OZARK (Only Regular Meetings Given)
Place of Meeting
Date
Moderator
Stated Clerk
Temp. Clerk
Jasper City
.. Sept. 18, 1894
Rev. G. H. Hemingway ........ R. W. Ely.
W. J. Stephens
Webb City
April 16, 1895
Rev. D. C. Hanna
.... R. W. Ely
.T. D. Peers and W. B. Skinner
Monett
.Sept. 17, 1895
Rev. D. N. Allen
.R.
W. Ely.
Angus McLeod
Carthage. First
.April 21, 1896
.Rev. J. N. McClung. R.
w. Ely.
R. H. James and J. H. Taylor
Eureka Springs, Ark
.. Sept. 15,
1896 Rev. R. W. Ely
R.
W. Ely.
.. W. R. Gorton and
West Plains
April 21, 1897
.Rev. G. H. Williamson ..
.R.
W. Ely.
.. W. B. Skinner
Springfield, Second
Sept. 27, 1897
.Rev. J. B. Welty. .. R. ... . . W. Ely
W. R. Gorton snd J. E. Wood
Joplin, First
April 5.
1898 ....
.. Rev. C. Memmott ..
.R. W. Ely.
C. J. Free and
T. R. Stockton
Monett
.Sept. 20, 1898
.Rev. H. O. Scott, D. D. .. R.
w.
Ely.
.J. S. Kocktitzky and
J. D. Abbey
Ash Grove
April 4, 1899
.Rev. A. M. Mann
R.
W. Ely ..
.Wm. Dull and John Orr
Mount Vernon
Sept.
18, 1899
.Rev. W. C. Templeton. .R.
W. Ely
.H. W. Day and G. H. Elmore
Neosbo
.. April 3, 1900
... Rev. J. T. Curtis. .R.
w.
Ely.
.F. H. Holland and
G. M. Shumaker
Conway
Sept. 19, 1900
Rev. W. G. Moore .R.
W. Ely
.Rev. A. T. Aller
Greenfield
.April 9, 1901
Rev. C. B. Boving
R. W. Ely
.F. A. Hall snd W. B. Skinner
Webb City
Sept. 17, 1901
.Rev. A. T. Aller.
... R. W. Ely
W. C. Troutmsn and
E. M. Kimber
Carthage First
.April 15, 1902
.Rev. J. H. Bright. .R.
W. Ely
... W. A. Wheatley and A. N. Wylie
Bolivar
.Sept. 16, 1902
Rev. W. F. Bishop, D. D .... R. W. Ely
.Rev. Henry Hepburn and Rev. G. W. MeKinney
Springfield Calvary
.. April 14, 1903
.Rev. Henry Little. .R. W. Ely
.„,P. D. Stringfield and C. E. Hatfield
West Plains
.Sept. 22, 1903
.Rev. E. L. Remick ...... .R. W. Ely
.. C. E. Hatfield
Ash G-ove April 19, 1904
.. Rev. D. B. Whimster A. T. Aller
.Rev. E. E. Mathes and
(Elected Oct. 1903) C. E. Hatfield
PRESBYTERIANISM IN THE OZARKS
C. F. McElroy
PRESBYTERY OF OZARK (Only Regular Meetings Given)
Place of Meeting
Date
Moderator
Stated Cleik
Temp. Clerk
Carl Junction
.Sept. 13, 1904.
.Rev. W. F. Grundy
... A. T. Aller and
E. E. Stringfield
Rev. C. B. Boving and W. R. Gorton
Springfield
... April 18. 1905
.Rev. W. S. Knight, D. b .... E. E. Stringfield
Rev. S. V. Sydenstricker end J. M. Rice
Ravenden Springs, Ark
.. Sept. 12,
1905. Rev. W. L. Hackett. ......... E. E. Stringfield
.C. J. Free
Webb City
... April 17, 1906
Rev. B. M. Shive, D. D ........ E. E. Stringfield
Rev. J. H. Glanville end J. H. Irwin
Monett
... Sept, 11, 1906
.. Rev. Huston Taylor .. ........... E. E. Stringfield
Rev. R. L. Kinnaird and H. Westbay
Neosho
April 16. 1907
.Rev. G. H. Williamson ........ E. E. Stringfield
Rev. R. L. Kinnaird and J. C. Sanders
STATED CLERKS
Rev. John Giffen
June 24, 1865
.November 23, 1866
Pres. of Southwest Missouri
Rev. James A. Paige
.November 24, 1866
October 6, 1871
.. Last S.W. Mo., first of Ozark
Rev. W. R. Fulton.
.October 6, 1871
.September 6, 1878
Rev. D. L. Lander.
.September 7, 1878
.. October 8, 1879
Rev. W. S. Knight.
.October 8, 1879
.September 9, 1890.
Rev. Robert W. Ely
September 9, 1890
October 22, 1903
Rev. A. T. Aller
October 22, 1903
September 15, 1904
Rev. E. E. Stringfield
.September 15. 1904
Lest of the Old Ozark and First of the New
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CANDIDATES AND LICENTIATES
PRESBYTERY OF OSAGE
Name
Date
Church
Licensed
Ordained
Dismissed
* Enos M. Halbert
... April 27, 1866 ........... North Prairie
.... Sept. 28, 1866
May, 1867.
Leondas J. Matthews.
Oct. 13, 1867. April 4, 1869
PRESBYTERY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
John Giffen S. M. Irwin
.. June 22, 1865
' Received as licentiate at organization) June 24, 1865
... Nov. 24, 1866
(Received as licentiate from Pres. of
Chillicothe) „Nov. 24, 1866
B. F. Powelson
.. Sept. 4, 1868
„(rec. as lic. from
Pres. of Wash.) ...
Sept. 5, 1868 ...
Austin Elliott
April 15, 1870
(rec. as lic. from
April 16, 1870 ..
PRESBYTERY OF OZARK
Benjamin Garnet (Colored) .. Oct. 1, 1870
March 9. 1876
Wm. E. Renshaw.
.Oct. 6, 1871
Mt. Zion
.. June 13, 1884 ..... .. June 13, 1884
John W. Richardson.
.. Oct. 6, 1871
.White Rock
Dropped
Wm. A. McMinn
.April 10, 1873
Ebenezer
April 5, 1886
D. L. Lander
Oct. 11, 1873
Neosho
.April 29, 1875 Mar. 10, 1876
Squire Glascock
Oct. 11, 1873
Neosho
.April 29, 1875 Oct. 13, 1873
Charles H. Miller
April 10, 1875
Salem
May 13, 1883 ..
Jewett Allin
.March 9. 1876
Carthage
Thomas H. Allin
Sept. 30, 1876 ... ....... Mar. 30, 1877
D. B. Dalzell Apr. 30, 1877 ... . .Ash Grove ....
.. Dropped May, 1883 ..
W. J. Hayden
May 1, 1878 .. ...
*Had been a candidate and pa rtially examined before the war.
PRESBYTERIANISM IN THE OZARKS
90
Oct. 17, 1883 Dropped
Pres. of Chicago).
PRESBYTERY OF OZARK
Date
Church
Licensed
Ordained
Dismissed
J. H. Allin
Sept. 7, 1878.
.. Carthage
Dismissed
W. A. Cravens
Rec. lic. Apr 2,'79 .... Apr. 3, 1879
Wm. R. McElroy ...
.Apr. 14, 1880 ...
.Joplin
Apr. 11, 1889
Apr. 11, 1889
F. R. Farrand
.May 4, 1880
.Pleasant Valley
.Apr. 27, 1882
May 8, 1883
R. G. Porter
.Sept. 28, 1881.
Calvary
Dropped
D. A. Budger
Apr. 12, 1882
"A member of Dr. Brooks' church of St. Louis'' 1 Sept. 27, 1882 he was rommended to the Pres. of St. Louis, "to which he most naturally belongs.''
M. B. W. Granger .. Apr. 29, 1885 .. El Dorado
E. W. Clippinger
.Apr. 29, 1885
.Joplin .Apr. 17, 1895
...... Apr. 17, 1895.
H. M. Campbell.
Sept. 11, 1890
Wm. Schmalhorst
.. Apr. 15, 1891
.. Springfield Second ....
Sept. 17, 189G.
Ambrose Haydon
.Apr. 16, 1891 .Calvary
Sept. 14, 1892
Jay C. Hanna
Elwood Bulgin .. Oct. 27, 1891 .Joplin ( ?)
Probably dropped
C. A. Buffa
Apr. 12, 1893 ....
John Plummer
Sept. 13, 1893
Probably dropped
F. W. Lippe
July 18, 1893
Geo. D. Mannon Apr. 11, 1894
J. T. Curtis
Nov. 1, 1894
Jay B. Fisher ....
Apr. 18. 1895 ....
P. S. Halleck.
Carthage ( ?)
.Apr. 22, 1896
W. W. Kirkpatric ....
Monett .Apr. 22, 1896
Herbert R. Livingstone Sept. 16, 1896
Ash Grove
Dropped Sept 18. '01
F. G. Knauer
Sept. 16, 1896
..
Marion Humphreys
Sept. 21, 1898 . .Calvary
J. W. Carey ... ... Apr. 9, 1901 ....
.Springfield 2d
Apr. 9, 1901 drop. Apr. 19, 1905
16
PRESBYTERIANISM IN THE OZARKS
April 7. 1887
July 14, 1891
Probably dropped
Apr. 20, 1897 Sept. 16, 1896
92
PRESBYTERY OF OZARK
W. H. Rhoades Sept. 18 1901 .... Carthage West- minster
Dismissed
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