Biographical Sketch of M. R. Elder


Text from Haynes, Nathaniel S. History of the Disciples of Christ in Illinois 1819-1914, Cincinnati: Standard Publishing Company, 1915. Page 510. This online edition © 1996, James L. McMillan.

Born: Illinois, 1836.
Died: Harristown, Illinois, 1907.

Mr. Elder was an active and useful preacher in west-central Illinois for forty-five years. His disposition was genial, his heart tender and sympathetic, and loyalty to the Lord supreme.


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