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HUGH CAMPBELL, M. D. See Appendix also.
PHOTOTYPE F.GUTEKUNST PHILAD'A.
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September, 1823, he married Miss Susan Baird, of Washington, Penn'a, a sister of Judge Thomas Baird. She died in 1824. April 15th, 1828, Dr. Campbell was married in Chambersburg, Pa., to Miss Rachel Broome Lyon, a daughter of Samuel Lyon, Esq., of Carlisle, Pa. By this marriage there were eight children, six of whom are (1888) still living. The subject of this sketch joined the Presbyterian church of Uniontown, October 9th, 1825, at the same time with Nathaniel Ewing, his life-long friend and fellow laborer in the church. He was ordained and installed an elder in this church, September 28th, 1829, and served as an ac- tive member of Session till his removal to Allegheny, Penn'a, in 1865, to enter on his duties as Warden of the Western Penitentiary. While there he was an elder in Dr. Swift's Church. He returned to Uniontown to reside in 1868. He was a Commissioner to the General Assemblies of 1833, 1834, 1835, 1836, 1838, 1847, 1858 and others. He also represented the Presbyterian Church of this country in the Scotch Assembly at Edinburgh in 1869. Dr. Campbell was a man of eminent ability and exercised great influence for good. He was a close student of the Bible all his life. Amongst his last words were, "I feel it is by the grace of God, I am what I am."
Hugh Espey was elected an elder, December 25th, 1831. He was clerk of Session from March, 1832, till 1851. He was born in the bounds of Tyrone Church, where he made a profes- sion of religion at an early age. About 1812, he removed to Rising Sun, Ind., and was made a Ruling Elder at the organiza- tion of the church there, in 1816. On account of poor health he returned to Pennsylvania, in 1822, and died at his home here, trusting in Jesus, in 1852. He was a most excellent man.
Hon. Nathaniel Ewing was born in Fayette county, Pa., July 18th, 1794. He was the son of William Ewing, who came into Fayette county as a surveyor in 1790 and settled in the Dunlap's Creek neighborhood, and married Mary, daughter of Jehu Con- well. He graduated at Washington College under Dr. Matthew Brown, in 1812, with the highest honors of his class. He taught a year in Newark, Delaware, then studied law with Hon. Thomas McGiffin, of Washington, Pa., and was admitted to the Washing-
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ton bar in June, 1816. The next year he removed to Uniontown, where he resided till his death, February 8th, 1874, in the eighti- eth year of his age and the forty-first of his eldership. He uni- ted with the church, October 9th, 1825, and February 3d, 1833, he was ordained as Ruling Elder. In 1822 he married Jane, the second daughter of the late Judge Kennedy, a most estimable lady, who died in 1825. She was the mother of John Kennedy Ewing, a member of the present Session. In 1830 he married Ann Lyon, daughter of the late Rev. David Denny, of Cham- bersburg. In 1838 Mr. Ewing was appointed by Governor Rit- ner, President Judge of the Fourteenth Judicial district to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Baird. He served the constitutional term of ten years and left the Bench with in- creased confidence on the part of the people in his integrity and legal qualifications and without a stain on his judicial ermine. One of the Judges of the Supreme Court, himself a great law- yer, said he was the best Common Pleas Judge in the State. Af- ter leaving the Bench, he did not return to the practice of law, except in occasional cases in behalf of old friends. He was a fine ecclesiastical lawyer and had great influence in the General Assembly, of which he was a member in 1836, 1837, 1839 and 1850, as Commissioner from the Presbytery of Redstone. Judge Ewing was the most eminent, useful and influential citizen of Fayette county in his day and he also exercised his activity, in- fluence and talents in the cause of Christ. To the very close of his life there was no apparent weakening of his powerful intel- lect. As in life, so in death, he leaned on God as the strength of his life and his eternal portion, and on a Sabbath morning quietly breathed his last on earth and began his eternal Sabbath in Heaven.
William Redick and Charles Brown were ordained elders, February 3d, 1833, by Rev. Joel Stoneroad. Mr. Redick served as elder till 1856, when he removed to the State of Illinois, where he now lives. He was born in Venango county in 1799. He was a good man and served with acceptance to the people.
Mr. Brown ceased to act at his own request. He left Fayette county in 1848 and now resides in Western Virginia.
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David Veech was elected an elder in this church, January 13th, 1845. He was born in Fayette county, June 6th, 1781, of Scotch-Irish parentage. He removed to Greene county in 1812, and was ordained elder in the New Providence Church. In 1832 he settled in the bounds of Dunlap's Creek Church and served as an elder there till he came to Uniontown in 1839. He served with great acceptance here till laid aside from active service in '61. His death occurred, February 14th, 1866. He was a good man and the memory of his influence and works is still fragrant among us. He was the father of James Veech, Esq., long a res- ident of this community.
SIMON B. MERCER AND BENJAMIN CAMPBELL.
On the 15th of April, 1866, Mr. Mercer was installed and Mr. Campbell ordained and installed as elders in this church. Mr. Mercer was formerly an elder in the church of Bridgewater, Pa. He served here but one year when he removed to Salts- burg, Pa., where he was installed as elder.
Mr. Campbell was clerk of Session from June, 1866, till June, 1873. He ceased to act from 1873. He was the son of Dr. Hugh Campbell and still resides amongst us.
Jasper Markle Thompson, John Kennedy Ewing, Alexander Wilkinson Boyd and William McCleary, constitute the present (1876) Session. Messrs. Thompson and Ewing were ordained and installed, March 4th, 1860.
Mr. Thompson was born in Kentucky, August 30th, 1822, and came to Uniontown from Westmoreland county, of this State, in 1848, and confessed Christ here. He was a member of the Legislature in 1873.
Mr. Ewing was born, December 15th, 1823 and has resided here all his life. He was Commissioner to the General Assembly that met in Pittsburgh in 1865. (Judge Ewing was also a mem- ber of the Assembly that met in Omaha, Neb., in 1887. He was Chairman of the Committee on the Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies. He also introduced a series of resolutions recommending important changes in "The Church at Home and Abroad," which was adopted.)
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Mr. Boyd, born April Ist, 1831, came by letter from the United Presbyterian Church and was ordained to the office of elder here, April 15th, 1866. He was a delegate to the General Assembly of 1874.
Mr. McCleary, born October 10th, 1813, came from the M. E. Church, by letter, to the Old Frame Church in this county, and was ordained as an elder by Rev. H. O. Rosborough, the pastor, May Ist, 1864. He became a member of Session here, October 10th, 1868.
DEACONS.
In December, 1867, William H. Bailey, William H. Miller, Richard Miller and Daniel F. Cooper, were elected, ordained and installed as Deacons and the care of the church property passed from the care of Trustees into their hands. W. H. Bailey was made treasurer.
THE CHURCH.
Before 1825 the membership is unknown. Dr. Fairchild held the first election for elders, of which there is any record and formally organized the church, February 24th, 1825. The mem- bership then was fifty-three, of whom forty-two were women. In 1826 it was sixty and at the close of Mr. Stoneroad's pastor- ate, in 1842, 157. The largest addition made to the roll at any time, was during the first year of Mr. Stoneroad's labors, when forty-eight were added. During the last year of Mr. Hamilton's labors, twenty-nine were received and, during the first two years of Mr. Gilson's pastorate, seventy. In 1876 the roll showed 193 in communion. The six oldest members are Mrs. Elizabeth Lew- is, received by confession and baptism, June 26th, 1825; Mrs. Rachel Campbell, widow of Dr. H. Campbell, received by letter, October 21st, 1830; Mrs. Ann L. Ewing, widow of Hon. Na- thaniel Ewing, received by letter, November 13th, 1830; Mrs. Eliza Willson, by letter, October 6th, 1833; Mrs. Catharine Di- cus, on examination, October 6th, 1833; Miss Agnes Dutton, on examination, August 12th, 1836 (the last three are still in the membership of this church, September, 1888.)
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CONTRIBUTIONS.
The first record of a contribution occurs in 1829, when $3.00 were given to the Commissioners' fund. At first the con- tributions were irregular and full statistics were not kept until about twenty-five years ago. The benevolence of the church, like its membership, though varying much in different years, has in the main steadily grown. During the years covered by statis- tics, this church has given in all over $50,000, besides much of which there is no record.
PRAYER MEETINGS.
The weekly prayer meeting has been in existence from a very early period. Its experience has been the usual one, some- times flourishing and sometimes languishing.
Judge Ewing and Dr. Campbell were constant and efficient helpers. The prayer meeting has always been well attended by the women of the church and there have been occasions when there was not a man present. For fifty years, at least, a monthly concert of prayer for missions has been kept up with more or less regularity and with varying interest.
THE SABBATH SCHOOL.
The germ of this Sabbath School-the first in Uniontown- was a class taught by Mrs. Wylie, in her own home. A school was formally organized about 1820, and Rev. Wm. Wylie su- perintended it till his removal to Wheeling. Miss "Betsey" Hadden sometimes conducted it for long periods entirely alone. After her death, the successive superintendents were Nathaniel Ewing, Joseph Kibler, E. P. Oliphant, Dr. H. Campbell, W. H. Bailey and A. W. Boyd.
In 1848 Dr. Campbell was elected superintendent and held the office till 1865, the longest service ever given in this Sabbath School by one man. Up to 1848 the average attendance annu- ally was about eighty. During Dr. Campbell's superintendency the contributions to the cause of missions were about $121.
CHURCH EDIFICES.
The first services were held in the old Court House, which stood on the site of the present one. About the year 1824, a
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church edifice was begun, which after various difficulties was completed and dedicated in January, 1827. It was on the pub- lic ground, a little south of the site of the present Town Hall, with the gable fronting Morgantown street and stood a little back from the street. It cost about $3,000. It was a plain, one-story brick, about 30x50. Objection being made to occupying the public grounds, the present location was purchased in 1836 and a second building erected. Elder Wm. Redick was the architect, con- tractor and builder of this new edifice. It was of brick, two- story, with high windows answering for both stories, with vesti- bule, steeple and bell, and large columns in front. The lecture room was occupied in the fall of 1837 and the audience room the next spring. It cost about $5,500. The building was not very satisfactory and a fire in April, 1857, which damaged the interior, gave a reason for building the present edifice. This is of brick, two stories, 47x75 feet in size, semi-gothic in style. The win- dows are of stained glass. It was dedicated to God, April 10th, 1860, and cost, exclusive of the lot, about $10,000.
The memorial fund raised by the congregation was appro- priated to the building of a parsonage. This work was begun in September, 1875, and completed in 1876, and stands as a monument of the Centennial year. It was a handsome and convenient brick house on Gallatin avenue and cost $4,200. (This building was sold in 1879, as it was thought to be too far out of town.)
Only two men have entered the Gospel ministry from this congregation, Wm. Campbell and Samuel Campbell, sons of Dr. Hugh Campbell.
The preceding pages bring our history to the close of No- vember, 1876. In December following, the congregation at a meeting, properly called, declined to adopt the Rotary System of Eldership. A. W. Boyd, a Ruling Elder, having removed, was dismissed, April, 1877.
Charles L. Smith, Isaiah W. Miller, Morgan H. Bowman, Josiah V. Thompson and Samuel E. Ewing, were elected Dea- cons, June Ist, 1878, and all, except J. V. Thompson, who de- clined, were ordained and installed, June 16th, 1878. Of the pre-
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vious members of the Board, W. H. Bailey removed to Minne- apolis, Minn., early in 1879; Richard Miller, died, July 7th, 1880, and Daniel F. Cooper removed to Port Perry, Pa., March, 1888. M. H. Bowman was made treasurer.
Rev. S. S. Gilson resigned the pastorate and the congrega- tion acquiescing, the relation was dissolved, June, 1879.
A call was made, April 17th, 1880, for Rev. A. S. Milholland and accepted and he was installed as pastor, June, 1880.
James A. Phillips, John A. C. Boyd and Nathaniel Ewing were elected elders, April 21st, 1883, and ordained and installed, May 6th, following. C. L. Smith, deacon, was dismissed, May, 1883, and J. A. Phillips, elder, January, 1888.
The degree of D. D. was conferred on Rev. A. S. Milhol- land, by the University of Wooster, O., June 24th, 1885.
During the latter year, the congregation erected a handsome brick parsonage.
Mr. H. S. Clark is Superintendent of the Sabbath School and it has increased from 100, as reported, April Ist 1877, to 263. There were added to the church last year on examination, twen- ty-four, of whom eleven were baptized, and by letter, sixteen. The number of communicants has increased from 193, April Ist, 1877 to 310, April Ist, 1888.
BROWNSVILLE.
BY REV. B. M. KERR.
The exact date of the organization of this church is un- known. Probably the congregation never was formally organ- ized, as all new congregations now are, and it may not have had any Ruling Elders for years. In the minutes of the Presbytery of
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Redstone under date of October 15th, 1811, is the earliest men- tion which has been found of Presbyterian worship at Browns- ville. At that time the Rev. Boyd Mercer-for whom the com- piler of this was named-applied for permission to continue preaching to the people of Brownsville and Uniontown. The Presbytery of Redstone declined to sanction the existing engage- ments because not made agreeably to the required regulations, Mr. Mercer being a member of the Presbytery of Ohio.
On the 20th of April, 1813, Mr. Wm. Johnston, a li- centiate, under the care of the Presbytery of Ohio, applied to the Presbytery of Redstone for admission. He was received on the 2 Ist and on the same day a call from the congregations of Browns- ville and Dunlap's Creek for his ministerial services was laid be- fore the Presbytery. On the 20th of October, 1813, he was or- dained and installed pastor over the united congregations. His pastorate continued at Dunlap's Creek till December 3d, 1839, and at Brownsville, in connection with Little Redstone, until his death, which occurred, December 3Ist, 184I.
Mr. Thomas Martin was his successor over these now united congregations. He began his stated labors, April Ist, 1842 and was ordained and installed pastor, January 4th, 1843. He continued in this relation just nine years and was greatly be- loved. Feeble health required rest and a change of climate. The date of his decease is unknown to the writer.
Mr. Robert M. Wallace commenced his labors over the united congregations, January 28th, 1853, and was ordained and installed, June 15th, 1853. This relation continued until February 17th, 1864. At the same time Mr. Wallace was dis- missed to the Presbytery of Huntingdon, in order to his accept- ance of a call to the Presbyterian Church of Altoona, Pa.
Mr. Joseph H. Stevenson followed, May 4th, 1864, and was ordained and installed, October 14th, 1864. On the 24th of April, 1866, Mr. Stevenson presented to the Presbytery a request from the two churches to be recognized as separate and distinct organizations. The Presbytery acceded to the request, and con- stituted the elders residing in the bounds of Brownsville, togeth- er with the pastor, as the Session of the Brownsville Church.
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After a pastorate of nearly four years, Mr. Stevenson resigned in April, 1868. He was succeeded by the Rev. E. P. Lewis, who served the church acceptably for some three or four years.
The Rev. W. W. McLane was called to this church, Decem- ber 19th, 1873, and was installed pastor, May 13th, 1874. This relation continued until April, 1878, when, at the request of the pastor, it was dissolved by the Presbytery and Mr. McLane was dismissed to the Presbytery of Steubenville.
Rev. A. S. Milholland was called to the pastorate, Septem- ber 18th, 1878. He served the church as pastor-elect for about eighteen months. Declining the call he returned it to the Pres- bytery, April, 1880.
Rev. A. B. Fields served the church as Stated Supply for some two or three years, after whom, the Rev. W. G. Nevin was called to the pastorate. In this capacity he served the church nearly two years. Resigning, he was released in the fall of 1884.
Rev. A. S. Hunter served the church as Stated Supply for one year, from January, 1886, to January, 1887.
In February, 1887, the Rev. B. M. Kerr was invited to sup- ply the church for one year and on the first of March following, he and his family took possession of the new and commodious parsonage which had just been finished. On the evening of May 2d, 1888, Mr. Kerr was installed as pastor.
Until after 1875 the Presbyterians of Brownsville had no regular house of worship.
On the 14th of June, 1815, Joseph Thornton, John Steele, and John Johnston, trustees of the congregation of Brownsville, purchased for $200, and five shillings annual ground-rent, lot No. 3 on Second street, having a front of sixty feet and extending 180 feet to Market street. It was conveyed to them "in trust for the use of the Presbyterian congregation of Brownsville for the pur- pose of erecting a meeting-house thereon, for the benefit of the congregation aforesaid." Soon afterwards there was built on the Second street front a brick edifice, which was used as a house of worship until the present church was completed on the same lot but fronting on Market street.
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Of the elders, William Parkhill was the only one living with- in the bounds of the Brownsville Church, at the time of its sep- aration from Little Redstone Church, in April, 1866. On the 22d of August, 1873, A. J. Isler and Josiah Reed were elected Ruling Elders, and on the 13th of September, 1876, J. R. Pat- terson was elected to the same office. On account of resigna- tions and removals, Mr. Wm. Parkhill is, and for some time has been, the only Ruling Elder.
The church now (January 30th, 1888), numbers 134 mem- bers. A Sabbath School connected with the church has an at- tendance of about 100, including teachers, and is under the effi- cient superintendency of Mr. William Parkhill. The church contributes quite liberally to all the Boards as recommended by our General Assembly.
CONNELLSVILLE.
BY REV. W. A. EDIE.
Within a few years after its incorporation as a borough in 1806, Connellsville became the home of several Presbyterian fam- ilies. Religious services were held at frequent intervals, con- ducted, in part, by the Rev. James Guthrie, pastor of the Ty- rone Church and, in part, by the Rev. William Wylie, pastor at Uniontown. These families were connected, however, with the Tyrone Church until the year 1831, when, on the 4th day of Oc- tober, the Presbytery of Redstone, in accordance with their own request, organized them as a cchurch. Twenty-two names were enrolled, viz .: Mr. Alexander Johnston, Mrs. Alexander Johnston, Miss Nancy C. Johnston (now Mrs. Blackstone), Mr.
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Wm. Lytle, Mrs. Mary Lytle, Mr. Isaac Taylor, Mrs. Rachel Taylor, Sarah Turner, Dr. Joseph Rodgers, Mrs. Elizabeth Rod- gers, Elizabeth Carson, Nancy Norton, Louisa Norton, Mar- garet Francis, Harriet Fuller, Margaret Lytle, Caroline Trevor, Mary Barnett, Samuel Finley, Mary Finley, Samuel McCormick and Elizabeth McCormick. Of these twenty-two persons, nine- teen had belonged to the Tyrone Church. Mr. Alexander John- ston, already an Elder in the Tyrone Church, served as the first and, for several months, as the only elder in the Connellsville Church. An Irishman by birth, a Presbyterian by conviction, a man of great force of character and of great perseverance in Christian work, to him the church is largely indebted for its suc- cess in the early years of its history. After a busy life of more than four score years, he died on the 3d day of September, 1864. Mr. Johnston's official responsibilities were lightened when, on October 28th, 1832, Messrs. William Lytle, Isaac Taylor and Jo- seph Paull were added to the eldership of the church. Of these persons, William Lytle died, December 7th, 1845 ; Isaac Taylor, August 29th, 1869 ; and Joseph Paull, February 14th, 1880. On the 7th of March, 1844, Robert Torrence, Noble C. McCormick and Wm. Cunningham, all now dead, were made elders. On January 7th, 1850, Wm. McCrea, John Taylor and Joseph H. Cunningham were added to the list; September 29th, 1851, Sam- uel Russell; March 20th, 1866, Robert Beatty; April 16th, 1873, John R. Johnston; second Sabbath of February, 1874, Thomas W. Watt; April 5th, 1874, A. B. Hosack and H. C. McCormick; Nov. 28th, 1875, Wm. Barnett; May 6th, 1878, Charles N. Boyd; and December 7th, 1879, James Calhoun. Of these, three have been released by certificate the others, with the exception of one suspended, have been released by death. The present eldership is composed of James Allen, installed, February 24th, 1868; Adam Armstrong, ordained, November 28th, 1875 ; Jacob May, May 6th, 1878; Hugh M. Kerr, December 7th, 1879; James L. Paull and William D. McDowell, September 4th, 1883. (Mr. Paull was or- dained and installed, April 16th, '73, but in '74 was transferred to Dunbar, returning to Connellsville Church, May 26th, 1883.) It will be seen, from this statement, that, from the organization of
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the church to the present date, twenty-five names have been en- rolled as elders.
The petition, presented to the Presbytery, asking for an or- ganization, was accompanied by a request for supplies. Accord- ingly, the records show that Rev. T. M. Chestnut supplied the church for some time in 1831, and Rev. John L. Hawkins acted as Stated Supply from December 15th, 1831, till June 20th, 1837. There have been eight pastors.
Rev. John L. Hawkins, the first pastor, was installed, June 20th, 1837, and was released, April 12th, 1843.
Rev. Ross Stevenson, the second, was installed, June 13th, 1845, and released in October, 1852.
Rev. James Black, the third pastor, was installed, June 14th, 1853, and released in April, 1860.
Rev. N. H. G. Fife, the fourth, was installed, April 29th, 1863; released, November 29th, 1867.
Rev. A. B. Fields, the fifth, was installed, January 29th, 1868, and released, June Ist, 1869.
Rev. John M. Barnett, the sixth, was installed the third Monday of May, 1870, and released, June Ist, 1882.
Rev. A. Z. McGogney, the seventh, was installed, August 27th, 1882, and released, September 28th, 1886.
Rev. W. A. Edie, the present pastor, was installed, May 19th, 1887.
Among those who supplied the church during intervals of vacancy, the records mention Revs. Wm. P. Moore and E. R. Donehoo as having acted as Stated Supply, the former for one year from March 24th, 1861, and the latter for six months from June 2Ist, 1862.
For several years after its organization, the congregation held its services in other churches, its ordinary preaching ser- vices in the Baptist church and its communion services in the Methodist church.
On the 6th of January, 1839, the congregation was permit- ted to enter a building of its own, an occasion of which the
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church record states that it "was marked with appropriate relig- ious services." This building continued in use until March 29th, 1863, when it was destroyed by fire. The walls, however, were left standing and the church was soon rebuilt.
The present structure, remodeled and built on the founda- tions of the old, with chapel built in the rear adjoining, was dedi- cated Sabbath, December 21st, 1884.
In 1871 a parsonage was erected on lots donated for the purpose by Messrs. John Taylor, John R. Johnston and Thos. W. Watt.
The town of Connellsville, which at the time the church was organized had but a few hundred inhabitants, has now a popula- tion of about four thousand and is surrounded by a thickly set- tled community. It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that the church should have received large accessions to its membership during the period of its history. Organized with twenty-two members, the records, in 1843, show a membership of III. In 1845 a number of members were dismissed to form the Indian Creek Church, and, in 1874, eighty-six members were dismissed to form the church at Dunbar. The present membership is about 320. The large majority of the membership is in the town of Connellsville; a number live in New Haven, however, across the Youghiogheny river; some live in the country and some in Wheeler and White Rock, neighboring towns. Ser- vices, conducted by Rev. N. G. White, are held at regular inter- vals in Wheeler, in a chapel owned by the Connellsville church. A Sabbath School, also, under the auspices of the church, is held in the same place. A congregational Sabbath School was es- tablished early in the history of the church. The present mem- bership is about 210, under the superintendence of Mr. James L. Paull. Women's Missionary Societies, home and foreign, have been in existence for several years, together with an Aid Society, which has rendered valuable service in reducing the debt on the new house of worship.
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