Smyrna times., 1921-10-19
PRESBYTERIAN TAKES HOLD
WESTERNS CHAPEL, ELKT0N
REV DANIEL LOCKERBIE is NOW
ELKTON'S LOVE PARSON
Jitney Men Get in Behind the Aged
Pastor and He is Doing a 'Land.
Office Business

Office Business"
The Rev. Daniel Forbes Lockerbie,
recently of 10Th street, near Tioga,
Philadelphia, now Elkton's newest
marrying parson," is a "free-lance
minister" who fears the discipline of
no sect and considers his right to
marry impregnable. The clergyman,
who is eighty-two, nearly six feet tall
and sturdily built, made this pro-
nouncement as he sat in the famous
marrying office" on Stockton street,
Elkton, Md, which he has taken over
from the Rev. r. 7. Western, Meth
odist marrying parson" whose career
was checked by his dismissal by an
ecclesiastical jury in Wilmington.
Hints that the Presbyterian church |
might take similar action against him |
brought only chuckles from the deep
chest of Mr.. Lockerbie. "No sir" he
rumbled. "Im no Presbyterian. Pm
free lance. l have my credentials as
minister, and I've consulted the
States. Attorney and Pm sound in my
right. 81 was graduated from Prince
ton Theological Seminary and ordain-
ed as a Presbyterian minister in 1869,
when took a charge in Perrineville,
N. j. left this charge in 1872, and
went to Philadelphia. | helped found
church at 9th street and Lehigh
avenue, after | had conducted services
in tent at 9th and Cumberland sts.
In 1876 l resigned from the Central
Presbytery of Philadelphia, of which
had been a member, because realized
the narrowness of all sects, land wished
to become an apostolic Pauline preach
er. That l have been ever since, and
no denomination can discipline me.
About five years ago | preached at the
Union Church at Newportville, Bucks
County, in the mornings, and at the
Mechanicsville Presbyterian Church,
near there, in the evenings, though l
was not regular pastor at either. |
also conducted services at the Home
for the INDECENT at Byberry. But
quit when l found the denominations
in the union church quarreling with
one another. Most of the time, have
been an evangelist"
Mr.. Lockerbie has a genius for Or
ganization-all Elkton is talking
about this. He has healed the schism
between the rival jitney mems fac
tions which play so large a part in
! this maryland" town. Half the jit-
2 ney men are openly conceded to be
! feeders. for the Rev. William Fl
Moon, the retired Baptist clergyman
q The other half, Mr.. Westren admitted
he split fees with, and they took coup
. les from the honeymoon express" t
d his door. But Mr.. Lookerbie, in hi!
s few short days there, has acquired th'
e allegiance of both factions. How h
E does this, Mr.. Lookerbie declines Il
say. at is a secret" he asserted
q "But | have made no arrangement
v with any jitney men," The Rev. Yves
tren, Methodist clergyman from tn
Montana Conference, who performe'
200 marriages from August l to Sep
tember 27, when he was dismissed,wil
probably be brought into court on
writ sought by Methodist authoritie
ton papers. This he has refused I
do on the ground that the Wilmingto
district has no authority over hin
The Rev. Robert Watt, district su
perintendent, went to Elkton last wee
and retained Henry Mccullough a
attorney. Mr.. Mccullough declare
he would seek a writ to compel M
p Westren to surrender his papers. NJ
IL Westren's attorney, E. Kirk Brow
II says he will fight this. Meanwhi
Mr.. Western has retired to his farm
ID and his office on Stockton street ,whiC
he took over from the Rev. William
Id Moon, retired Baptist, has bee
taken over again by the Rev. Locke
al bic.
According to the Rev. U. Frank
~ Smiley, pastor of West Presbyteri;
:" Church, of Wilmington, the name
Mr.. Lockerbie does not appear in Il
nd records of the General Assembly
the Presbyterian Church of the Unit
States of America, as an ordain
pastor. There are, however, thr
other branches of the Presbyteri
nv church in this country, known as t
\ United Presbyterian, Reformed Pre-
4 byterian and the Presbyterian ChuI
d, South. The Rev. Mr.. Smiley said
me was possible Mr.. Lockerbie had be
ordained by one Of these.
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