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was out of an old Maryland family, who came to Kentucky in 1795, and established their home in Montgomery county. There is disagreement as to the plaee of his ibirth, whether in Montglomery or Jessamine county, but the date was May 7,1797. He was路 not converted until he was about thirty years of age, which event occurred at Old Fort meeting house. Very soon after he was licensed to preach. His first appointment was to Winchester circuit, then for two years he was assigned to Lexington circuit. In 1834 he was appointed to' Newport and Covington station, and the following year he was returned to' that appointment, with Hartwell J. Perry as his assistant. This year he acted as assistant Editor of The w.estern Christiam Adoooote, pUiblished in Cincinnati. In 1836, he was elected to this position by the General Conferoo.ce, but in ress than a month afterward, he was stricken with fever from which he died, August 4, 183'6. "As a practical preacher he had few equals in the West; while his persuasive powers contributed to' his success in winning souls to' Christ." He was etncient in every department of the work of the ministry, but it was as a writer and polemic that he aehieved his greatest success. Gampbellism was just at that time in its most aggressive and dogmatic stage. . Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone had united their forces in 1832, and, inflated by their success after merging their organizations, they were making determined warfare upon all other denominations. "They were especially distinguished for their propensity to' disputation. NO't only the preachers, but the private members of that communion, sought every O'pportunity, whether in public O'r private, to' arraign the religious faith of evangelical to call in questiO'n the piety of