Born: Hendricks County, Indiana, October 17, 1876
Died: 1953

C. J. Sharp, of Hammond, Indiana, the subject of this sketch, was born in Hendricks County, Indiana, on October 17, 1876. He is, and always has been, thoroughly a Hoosier. He left the farm at the age of eighteen with only a common-school education.

The next eight years of his life were extremely busy years, having in that time completed his education by graduating from Chicago University with the degree of A.B. He had previously graduated from the Tri-State Normal College at Angola. During this eight years he not only completed a seven years' educational course, but during the same time taught two school years in the country schools, served as principal of the Angola High School for three years, and served as student preacher for the church at Hammond for one year.

Bro. Sharp is now in the tenth year of his pastorate at Hammond. In these ten years he has led the Hammond Church from the position of one of the weakest in the State to be one of the strong churches of the State. He began with six members, but has added over twelve hundred; with no church property, but now has a $45,000 plant, by far the best of any people in the great Calumet vicinity.

Aside from his own congregation, he has planted six other churches of Christ in the Calumet region. With a continuous round of money-raising and evangelizing, he has brought our cause to the forefront in this difficult field. He is now president of the Calumet Christian Missionary Association, a member of the

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State Board of the Indiana Christian Missionary Association, and a member of the National Board of Christian Endeavor.