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| R. H. SAWYER,
Watsonville, Cal. |
| Born in Kentucky [1866]; educated in Missouri; ordained at Kansas City, Mo., in 1890; as the special delegate of the Colorado COnvention he memorialized the National Convention at Richmond in 1894 on the necessity of providing some plan of ministerial relief, and from this suggestion the present work in behalf of our aged ministers began; now minister of one of the strongest churches on the Pacific Coast. |
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| FRANCIS M. KIRKHAN,
Los Angeles, Cal. |
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Born Schuyler Co., Ill., July 26, 1836; reared
in Iowa; graduated from Eclectic Med. Inst., Cin.,
Ohio, 1859; a student and teacher in Oskaloosa
College, also in Bible College, Lexington, Ky.;
minister at Centerville, Bedford, Marshalltown,
Ia., Chicago and Los Angeles; editor Christian Oracle
and of Pacific Christian; resides in Los Angeles
and preaches at Santa Paula; married in
1857 to Miss Harriet Jane Drake.
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| JOHN RICHARD SHIE,
San Bernadino, Cal. |
| Born August 26, 1867, at Nashville, Tenn.; studied in the public schools of his native city; took a private course of four years' study in logic, literature and the languages, under Prof. T. P. Brennan, of the Brennan Select School, of Nashville; entered the Baptist ministry, continued therein two years, and then became a disciple of Christ; first charge in our brotherhood, San Bernardino, Cal., where he has been for two years. |
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| GEORGE RINGO,
Riverside, Cal. |
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Born Paris, Ill., June 27, 1872; graduated from
Central Normal College, Indiana; three years a
teacher in Illinois; student in Kentucky University
1893-6 and 1898-1901, graduating from College
of the Bible 1896, and with degree of A. B.
1901; as student preached for various churches;
married Sarah V. Crabtree 1896; reisdent minister,
Ladoga, Ind., 1896-7; Falmouth, Ky., 1899-1901;
Riverside, Cal., 1901.
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