Born: Wayne County, Illinois, September 20, 1870.Died: 1960.
Born: Wayne County, Illinois, September 20, 1870.
Died: 1960.
The same year his parents moved to Missouri. Six years thereafter, while the family was returning in a movers' wagon to their former home in Illinois, the father died and was buried on the way. S. S. Lappin grew to his majority on the farm, working there and in stores, and attending and teaching schools. At the age of six years he had read McGuffey's old "Third Reader" through three times, having learned the words by spelling them aloud to his mother, whose eyesight was too dim to make out the letters. At twenty-one he began to preach in schoolhouses and country churches, but was still selling goods in a store in Fairfield. After one year in Eureka College, he served the churches at Toluca, Washburn, Paxton, Atlanta and Stanford. He entered the editorial office of the Christian Standard in 1909, where he continues as its managing editor. Through the school of early adversity, his native endowments, with grace and grit, have led him to a place of great usefulness.
He has two brothers who are twins, and were born after their father's death: John C., a teacher in Phillips University, Enid, Okla., and William O., a teacher in Atlantic Christian College, Wilson, N. C.