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Subject: BIOS 3391 THRU 3395 - DAVIESS CO: BURROUGHS, DOUTHITT, HAGEMAN, KNOTT, MAGRUDER
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 07:01:39 -0500

Today's bios are all from Daviess Co:

3386 BURROUGHS, JOHN LANSING - Burrows Calhoun Cathcart Crouch Farnham
McClay Waller Welch
3387 DOUTHITT, PLEASANT E - Douthitt Barnett Shackelford Morgan
3388 HAGERMAN, GILBERT - Hagerman Zimmerman Duncan Berry Worthington
Crabtree Davis Howard Boone
3389 KNOTT, LEONARD - Knott Drury Haynes Melton Hayden
3390 MAGRUDER, ORION NOEL - Magruder Mobberly Morton Stallings

#3391: A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY,
1844-1943
by Wendell H. Rone. Probably published in 1944 by Messenger Job Printing
Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky. Used by permission. p. 252-256.Daviess
County JOHN LANSING BURROWS, D.D.: This noble man of God was born in
the city of Albany, New York, on the 14th of February, 1814. He was the
son of Samuel and Elizabeth Burrows. His father was a sailor and in
consequence his duties called him away from home. He died of yellow fever
in 1822 in the city of Mobile, Alabama. The widowed mother left with three
children went to live with her father-in-law, Nathaniel Burrows. Here
young John L. went to the schools at hand and still later to college. His
first
experience at college life was at Lafayette, in Easton, Pennsylvania. Then
at Union College, Schenectady, New York, and finally at the Andover
Theological Seminary, Andover, Massachusetts. It was during his college days
that he became concerned in religious matters under the preaching of that
wonderful pulpit orator, Bartholomew Welch, who was the pastor of the Pearl
Street Church in Albany. The religious background of young Burrows was not
Baptist. The whole family had united m[sic][in] the communion known as the
Dutch Reformed. While not opposed by his family, it is at this period that
we find him starting for himself. The date of his conversion and baptism
are not known; but as the two events were contiguous in time, so the
determination to preach was entered upon and encouraged by Dr. Welch. In
1835, Mr. Burrows became of age and also an ordained Minister of the
Gospel. The Church at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., was charmed with the youth and
xalled him as their pastor, and so he was ordained over them. But this
relation was not lasting. .[sic] Some difficulties arose which he could
not cope with. He resigned and became assistant to the aged Dr. McClay of
the Mulberry Street Baptist Church in New York City. The Church raised a
purse in 1836 for the purpose of sending him as an agent for the China
Mission to the State of Kentucky. He came, with his wife, to Shelbyville,
Ky., where he taught school for one year with the venerable J. E. Farnham.
He went from there to Elizabethtown, Ky., where he taught, preached, and
also worked as editor with John L. Waller. A daughter was born to the
young couple while at Elizabethtown. In 1839, his wanderings took him to
Owensboro, Ky. While here a greatr evival broke out and hundreds were
brought to a knowledge of the truth. As this incident is of particular
interest to the history of this Association and related Churches we wish to
dwell on his experience here. From records we learn that in May, 1839,
Elder Burrows began a series of meetings in the Court House at Owensboro.
Elder Ben Crouch, a Methodist, was holding a quarterly meeting. Burrows
proposed a union meeting, which Crouch refused and went on with the meeting
until Wednesday night and closed. Elder Burrows then went into a union
meeting with the Methodist Circuit-rider and Sam Calhoun, a local preacher
of the Cumberland Presbyterians. The people came only to hear Burrows, so
after a few days he did all the preaching. The meeting lasted about six
weeks and over 200 people were converted. About half of this number joined
the Baptist Church here. Elder Burrows went from Owensboro to Pleasant
Grove Church, where another revival ensued which resulted in over 100
conversions and additions to the Church. We next find him at Henderson,
Ky., where another revival resulted in the organization of a Baptist Church
of about 100 members. Brother Burrows was immediately called to pastor the
Churches at Henderson and Owensboro preaching two Sundays at Owensboro and
one at Henderson. This task he accepted and performed for some time.
Hundreds
united with other Churches as a result of the revivals and his fame spread
far and wide over the Green River Country and the Ohio Valley. But his
stay here was to be short. In September, 1840, he returned east to attend
the Triennial [sic] [Tricentennial?] Convention of the Baptist
Denomination at Philadelphia. His fervid oratory, his excellent spirit,
his grace of manner, so impressed the people of the Sansom Street Church in
Philadelphia, that they insisted that he should not return to his old
Kentucky home but abide with them. He accepted the call to the regret of
the Churches at Owensboro and Henderson. In 1844, he founded the Broad
Street Church in Philadelphia and was its successful pastor for ten years.
In 1854 ~ [sic] he accepted the care of the First Church in Richmond,
Virginia, a relation which was sustained for twenty years with much delight
and success. He returned to Kentucky after an absence of almost thirty-five
years, in 1874, and became pastor of the historic Broadway Church in
Louisville. He remained here until1882, when he accepted the call of the
Free Mason Street Church in Norfolk, Virginia. This pastorate lasted for
ten years, until 1892. Owing to ill health and advanced age he was forced
to resign. The First Church at Richmond kindly took care of him during the
remainder of his earthly life. He died in the city of Richmond, Va. on
January 2, 1893, at the age of 79. In the year 1887, he attended the
Jubilee Meeting of the General Association of Kentucky Baptists at
Louisville, Ky., and told of his experiences 50 years before when the
Association was organized. He was a messenger from the Severn's Valley
Church at Elizabethtown, Ky., to the
Association at its organization in 1837 Besides the one daughter already
mentioned, two sons were also born to
Brother and Mrs. Burrows. Mrs. Burrows died in 1874 and Brother Burrows
was left in a sad and dreary state but with a phlegmatic determination to
try again he entered with energy into his work and his latter days were
crowned
with as much success or more than his first. He had no connection with
this Association as it v. as [sic][was] formed about four years after he
returned east; but his labors in and adjacent to the cities of Henderson
and Owensboro
will last in the monumental labor and life of the First Baptists Churches
of these respective cities. Cathcart considered John Lansing Burrows, D.D.,
one of the greatest pulpit orators and most useful men the Baptist
Denomination has ever had.

#3392: History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1883. Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980. p.
612. PLEASANT E. DOUTHITT, born Jan. 30, 1832, in Yelvington Precinct,
was a son of James and Elizabeth (Barnett) Douthitt. During the late war
he enlisted in Company B, Eighth Kentucky Cavalry, U. S. A., under J. A.
Shackelford. His regiment was in many small battles and skirmishes,
being mostly engaged in routing and capturing guerrillas and bushwhackers;
also was with the party that routed Morgan from the State.

#3393: History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1883. Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980. p.
678. GILBERT HAGERMAN was born in Spencer County, Ky., seven miles above
Taylorsville, March 28, 1837. His parents were George and Luvina
(Zimmerman) Hagerman, natives of Nelson County, Ky., where they were
married. They were members of the Baptist church. Gilbert, subject of
this sketch, was the only child, and when he was but nine years old his
father died. He remained on the farm with his mother one year when his
mother moved to Decatur County, Ind., to educate him. He remained here
attending school, clerking in a store, and learning the carpenter's trade
until his mother's death, Oct. 22, 1854. He then spent one winter in
Spencer County, Ky., and in March, 1855, returned to Daviess County, Ky.,
and was overseer on the farm of Major Benj. Duncan and Ed Berry on season;
then worked for Ed Worthington one winter and the spring of
1856. June 24, 1856, he married Emily Worthington. She was born in
Daviess County, Ky., and was a daughter of Edward S. and Alsinda (Crabtree)
Worthington, natives of Daviess County, Ky. After his marriage Mr.
Hagerman settled on a farm in Lower Town Precinct. He and wife had five
children--Alice A., born Jan. 23, 1858; George E., born Feb. 18, 1862, died
Oct. 10, 1874; Charles T., born Dec. 24, 1864; Frank G., born March 11,
1867, died Aug. 16, 1869; William E., born June 9, 1869. The mother died
June 10, 1870. She was a member of the Pleasant
Grove Baptist church. Mr. Hagerman married Sarah P. Davis, June 29, 1871.
She was born in Daviess County, Ky., Masonville Precinct, July 15, 1851,
and was a daughter of Virgil and Ruhema F. (Howard) Davis, natives of
Shelby County, Ky., and Daviess County, respectively. Her mother was a
relative of Daniel Boone. In 1869 Mr. Hagerman was appointed Deputy
Sheriff and Tax Collector, and held that position until the spring of 1872,
when he moved with his family to Burlington, Coffee Co., Kan., and worked
at his trade of carpenter three years. He then returned to his farm near
Owensboro; remained here two seasons, then rented land in Upper Town until
Dec. 13, 1881, when he purchased his present farm in Masonville Precinct.
Mr. and Mrs. Hagerman are both members of the Baptist church and have had
three children--Sarah G., born July 12, 1873, died Aug. 12, 1876; Captolia
I. A., born March 29, 1876; Helen V., born Sept. 21, 1879. Mr. Hagerman
owns a fine farm of ninety-eight acres, thirty-eight acres under
cultivation, and well stocked. Mr. Hagerman is a member of Brothers'
Lodge, No. 132, I. O. O. F., at Owensboro, Ky., and is, politically, a
Democrat. He has held various local offices of trust in his township.

#3394: History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co.,
Chicago, 1883. Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980. p.
619. LEONARD KNOTT (deceased), for whom the village and precinct of
Knottsville were named, was born in Nelson County, Ky., and was the son of
James Knott, a native of Maryland and a pioneer of Nelson County. Our
subject came to this county in 1826, and was the first settler in what is
now the village of Knottsville. He first lived one year in a small cabin
on the Whitesville road, and built in Knottsville in 1827. He married Mary
M. Drury, by whom he had four children; of these three are living--James
I., Mary E. and Margaret A. The first lives near Knottsville; Mary E. is
now Mrs. John Haynes, and lives in this precinct; Margaret has been married
twice, first to John Melton, and the next time to J. M. Hayden, both of
whom are dead. She resides in the lower end of the county. Mr. Knott was
a life-long Catholic, and died in 1854.

#3395: "A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY,
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone. Probably published in 1944 by Messenger Job
Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, p. 468.
Used by permission. [Daviess] DEACON ORION NOEL MAGRUDER: O. N.
Magruder has been treasurer of the District Mission Board of the
Daviess-McLean Baptist Association since 1928 and the Board never had a
better and more faithful servant in this office. He was born at Habit,
Daviess County, Kentucky, near Bethabara
Church, on December 23, 1879, and is the son of Dr. F. M. Magruder and
Nannie Jane Mobberly. His father was a practicing physician in Daviess
County for a number of years. He attended the Utica grade schools and the
Utica normal school and obtained a first class teacher's certificate. He
taught school for three years and was a banker for twenty-four years. For
the past ten years he has been the efficient President of the Owensboro
Federal Savings and Loan Association. He was converted at the age of
nineteen and united with the Oak Grove Baptist Church (now Utica) and was
baptized by Rev. T. M. Morton. After moving to Owensboro he placed his
membership with the
Third Baptist Church. He was ordained a deacon of this Church on February
17, 1926, and continues in that office to date. His work as Treasurer of
the Districts Mission Board has been outstanding. He is faithful,
accurate, prompt, and a man of integrity in this office. The Board has had
other good men to serve in this capacity but none have excelled him. His
kind, courteous, and quiet demeanor have gained for him a multitude of
friends. One thing can be said of him,he is a Christian gentleman and
Christian business man. Mr. Magruder married Miss Willie May Stallings, the
daughter of a Baptist minister, on August 10, 1921. They have two
children, Lina Belle and Jane Noel Magruder. Their home life is ideal and
inspiring. The entire family holds membership with the Third Baptist
Church of Owensboro.

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