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JESSE COBB CALDWELL,
Selma, Ala. |
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Born 1873; educated in public and high school,
Excelsior Springs, Mo.; State Normal, Warrensburg,
Mo., 1891-92; entered Kentucky University
1892; was graduated A. B. 1896; Classical, College
of the Bible 1897. Called to church, Owenton,
Ky., and preached there six years, the latter
two was also principal of Caldwell Academy.
Graduated B. D. Yale University School 1903.
Now minister First church, Selma, Ala.
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| HENRY NICHOLAS BIDDLE. |
Born in Cincinnati, O., Jan. 17, 1872; educated
in Cincinnati schools, Pulte Medical College, and
Chicago Medical Mission Institute; married Edith
M. Sparks, Feb. 20, 1897; missionary to Africa
under Foreign Society, March, 1897; succumbed to
climatic diseases October 8, 1898, en route home
for his health. Buried in English cemetery, Las
Palmas, Grand Canary Islands.
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JONAS R. SPARKS,
Pounding Mills, Va. |
Born July 22, 1856, at Salem, Tazewell county,
Va. He secured a common school education and
obtained advanced learning by private study. In
1885 he entered the ministry as a preacher in the
Primitive Baptist church; joined Church of Christ
in 1898. He has been minister of churches at
Graham, Richlands, Baptist Valley and other
points, and is now the minister at Pounding Mill,
Virginia.
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DAVID NATION,
Medicine Lodge, Kansas. |
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Born in Delaware Co., Ind., 1828; studied in log
cabin eighteen months; educated himself at home
after marriage. Admitted to the bar at Indianapolis
1852; editor of the New Castle (Ind.), Courier
1854, the Biazoria Independent and Richmond,
(Tex.) Nation, 1881-5; elected Circuit Attorney,
Muncie, Ind., 1858; degree of A. M. conferred by
Masonic University, Lagrange, Ky. Held two successful
debates 1865; commenced to preach 1865.
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