SMITH, JAMES M.: 1819-?
Born in Fayette County, Ky., on Oct. 19, 1819, James M. Smith was a son of William and Margaret Smith. The family moved to Shelby County, Ind., in 1827, where, as Smith says, he "grew up to be a very wicked young man, without religious training."
In 1841 he changed his way of life and joined the Baptist Church. He was ordained a minister in 1844, afterwards studying at Franklin College for two years, teaching and preaching meanwhile. He preached in Indiana about twenty years, the same in Iowa and for about ten years in Missouri . His service to the church ended with his retirement in 1893.
James Smith married Elizabeth [?] in 1840. They were the parents of six children.
Information from Smith–Work on Revivals, Sermons and Sketches …
- Work on Revivals, Sermons and Sketches in the Life and
Preaching of Elder J. M. Smith, a Baptist Minister
page: 295[View Page 295] for Thirty-Five Years.
Indianapolis, 1893. (3rd
ed., enlarged)
