The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-17

erty, (now Bedford City.) from June,
1870 to January 1878. Two congre-
cations, Otterwood and Leesville,
both in Campbell county, Va, from
January. 1879, till this time.
Rev. John Lee Allison
was born September 5th, 1863. He ro-
oeived his academic instruction at
Wytheville, Va, and graduated from
King College, Bristol, Tenn, in 1884.
He entered Union Theological Semin-
airy, at Hampdcn-Sidney, Va, in tho
session of 1ss4-s5, and graduated in
1887. lilo was licensed the same wear of
graduation by Abingdon Presbytery, in
session at Marion, Va. He laborcd one
year in Washington county, Va, was
ordained in 1883, and installed pastor
over the Beaver Creek Church in Wash
ington county, at the same time acting
as stated supply at Green Spring Pres
byterian church.
Last spring he received and accepted
a call to the Radford and Pearisburg
churches The Radford field is very
promising, a lot 15Oxl50 feet having
boon donated by the Land and Improve
ment Co., upon which in the near future
handsome stone church will be erected
at a cost of $4,000 with q view of add
ing main auditorium 6Ox9O as soon as
the church grows numerically and
financially.
Rev. p. Ii. Price
was licensed to preach in 1857. His
first pastoral charge charge was the
Third Presbyterian Church OF Rich
mond. lie removed in 1869 to High
Bridge Church, Rockbridge, which he
served till June, 1854, being at the same
time pastor of Buchanan Church from
June, 1879. On his arrival from High
bridge ho continued to be pastor of
buchanan, which he still serves, preach
ing also as stated supply of Carmel in
Botetourt and Rich Patch in Allegheny,
and at several places in connection
with these churches, as Arcadia, Rocky
Point and Eagle Rock, etc. Mr.. Price
is stated clerk of the Presbytery, which
Office ho has held for fourteen years.
He has boon for nearly fourteen wears q
trustee of Hampden Sydney College.
/ While pastor in Richmond he was for a
year and quarter associate editor, with
Rev. DR.. William Brown, of the Central
Presbytery.
In this paper he published few years
ago sketches Of DR.. John II. Rice"
running through fifty numbers of the
paper, and constituting life of that re-
markable man, which may yet be pub
lished in book form.
Rev. Samuel j. Baird
was born in Newark, Ohio, in 1917, and
brought up at Pittsburg, Pa. He gradu-
atcd from Centre College, kentucky, and
was licensed by Pennsylvania Presby-
terry in 1S45. He labored mainly in the
West till 1857, when he took charge OF
the church in Woodbury., n. j., till the
close OF the war. Then he came to Vir-
| GINA as agent OF the American Bible
Society and received q commission from
the Virginia Bible Society in co-opera-
ton with the other; subsequently, had
charge of the churches in Waynesbor-
ough Third Church, Richmond and that
| in Ronceverte, w. Va; was editor for a
time Of the Sunday school periodicals Of
the church, published in Richmond.
He is now pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Blacksburg. where he celc-
DRAFTED his golden wedding last summer.
lie is the author of the "Assembly's
Digest" "a Systematic Cole ction Of
the Acts of tho General Assembly from
| 17O5 to 1851" "a History OF the New
School, "a Bible History of the Bap-
tism" and a mum Der OF smaller treatises.
Rev. John McC1rty Duckwall
W.. S born at Bcrk' ley Springs. in Nor
gan county, West Virginia, February
oath, 1853, and is the son of Joseph S.
| Duckwall, the present Judge of the
th!ctecn judicial circuit of West Virgil
MIA. He never received a college cdu-
cation, but attended Rockingham
Academy in IIarrisonburg, Va, and
John y. McGuire's school in Richmond
| for nearly three sessions. At ten years
of age he sold pies, milk and flowers to
the Fcdral soldiers who were encamped
in the suburbs of Richmond. and thus
contributed to the support of his fathers
family. For several years, and until he
was seventeen years Of age, he was in
tcrested in the management Of a drygood
store in Richmond,of which his father
was one of the owners. For six years
be practiced law in Berkely and Nor
gan counties, West Virginia, and part
OF that time he was in tho law office of
Hon. Chas. j. Faulkner, Sr., ex.con-
gresham and X-minister to France, tho
father of the present United States sena-
tor. His theological course was taken at
Union Seminary, Hampdcn Sidney, Va,
| but was not entirely completed owing
to the failure of his health from exces-
| sive stnoy.
| In 1854 he was ordained a Presbyter-
ian minister by Winchester Presbytery,
and installed pastor of his first charge,
the Petersburg Church, in Grant county,
w. va, Wnere ne renamed Tor nVc
| years. At the solicitation of the COM
mittce of Home Missions of Montgom-
cry Presbytery, through its chairman,
Rev. w. G. Campbell, ID. D., he resigned
there with tho view of accepting his
present charge, which embraces the
fivo congregations of Bluefeld, Bran
we'll and Princeton, in Montgomery
| Pre>bytery and Mercer county, w. Va,
and Pocahontas and Graham in Abing-
don Presbytery and Tazewcll county,