Rev Benjamin Hall

HALL

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Date: 6/12/2005 at 19:08:09

REV. BENJAMIN HALL was born in Surrey county, England, December 20th, 1808, and was eleven years old when his father located in Vanderburgh county. Then the city of Evansville was composed of less than a dozen houses, and the remainder of the county was desolate in proportion. Before he was sixteen years old he professed religion at McAlister's camp-ground and united with the church. Dr. James Johnson and Rev. Aaron Shelby, with elders David Negley and Jesse McAlister, were the persons present on this interesting occasion of his life. Being impressed that it was his duty to preach the gospel, he offered himself to Indiana Presbytery as a candidate for the ministry, and was accepted, October, 1832. In April of the following year he was licensed at Princeton. He traveled as a circuit preacher two years, and was then ordained, April, 1835, in the court house at Petersburgh. He was first placed upon a circuit in the central portion of the State, and then upon one extending through the counties of Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh and Warrick. This was a delightful work in which he enjoyed many precious seasons of refreshing. He then labored in Knox county till 1842, when he accepted a call to the pastorate of the Newburgh congregation, in which position he remained till 1864. He removed to Iowa and located at Waukon, where he served as pastor of the church for eleven years. His residence is still there, but he is employed as Missionary of the Synod of Iowa.

Such a record indicates that much might be said in praise of the man who, by the grace of God, has been enabled to make it, but his career is not yet closed, and they who shall survive him may pronounce the eulogy upon his life which it has thus far so richly deserved.

source: Cumberland Presbyterianism in Southern Indiana: Being a History of Indiana Presbytery and an Account of the Proceedings of its Fiftieth Anniversary Held at Princeton, Ind., April 13-18, 1876, Together with Various Addresses and Communications, and a Sermon on the Doctrines of the Church. Compiled and Arranged by Rev. W. J. Darby and Rev. J. E. Jenkins. Indianapolis: Printed at the Printing and Publishing House, Published by the Presbytery, 1876, pp. 60-61.

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