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Churches of Christ (1904)

BALTIMORE.

B. A. ABBOTT.

Portrait of B. A. Abbott
BYRDINE AKERS ABBOTT,
Baltimore, Md.
      Born Craig Co., Va., Jan. 6, 1866; educated in the public schools of Virginia, Milligan College, Tennessee, and at the University of Virginia; taught school, served as evangelist, been editorially connected with four of our papers; was minister six years at Charlottesville, Va., and nine years in Baltimore, Md.; July 1, 1888, he married Ollie C. Carper, of Virginia.

Portrait of Peter Ainslie
PETER AINSLIE,
Baltimore, Md.
      Born Dunnsville, Va., June 3, 1867; student at Kentucky University, Lexington 1886-89; minister Newport News, Va., 1890; minister Calhoun St. church, Baltimore, 1891-1903; editor of Christian Tribune, Baltimore, 1894-1900; student and traveled in Europe 1898; founded and president Christian Tribune Home for Working Girls, Baltimore, 1899; author "Plain Talks," etc.; minister Christian Temple, Baltimore, 1903.
Photograph of Harlem Avenue Church, Baltimore
HARLEM AVENUE CHURCH,
Baltimore, Md.
Portrait of J. O. Shelburne
J. O. SHELBURNE,
Baltimore, Md.
      Born May 4, 1870; son of Samuel Shelburne, grandson of the famous pioneer, Silas Shelburne; educated Milligan College; evangelized three years; baptized in this time about 1,500; estbalished Cove Alum church 1898; Newbern church 1899; Dec. 1900 moved to Baltimore and established the Riverside Park church, an institutional church, with a labor bureau, the first church in all America to connect a labor bureau.

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