__ | __|__ | __| | | | | __ | | | | |__|__ | __| | | | | __ | | | | | __|__ | | | | |__| | | | | __ | | | | |__|__ | _Timothy Church _____| | (1736 - 1823) m 1757| | | __ | | | | | __|__ | | | | | __| | | | | | | | | __ | | | | | | | | |__|__ | | | | |__| | | | | __ | | | | | __|__ | | | | |__| | | | | __ | | | | |__|__ | | |--Reuben Church | (1757 - 1834) | __ | | | __|__ | | | __| | | | | | | __ | | | | | | |__|__ | | | __| | | | | | | __ | | | | | | | __|__ | | | | | | |__| | | | | | | __ | | | | | | |__|__ | | |_Abagail or Abigail _| m 1757 | | __ | | | __|__ | | | __| | | | | | | __ | | | | | | |__|__ | | |__| | | __ | | | __|__ | | |__| | | __ | | |__|__
!SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 28 Jul 2004. Cites the
following entry in The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable
Americans: Volume IICHURCH, Alonzo {46291}, educator, was
born in West Brattleboro, Vt., April 9, 1793; son of Lieut. Reuben {667} and
Elizabeth (Whipple) {658} Church. He was graduated at Middlebury college in
1816 and took charge of a classical school at Eatonton, Ga., and where in 1818
he married Sarah Trippe {46292}. He was professor of mathematics in Franklin
college, Athens, Ga., 1819-29; ordained a minister of the Presbyterian church,
April 28, 1824, and preached without pay for thirty-five years; president of
Franklin college, (afterward the University of Georgia) in 1829 when he retired
to a farm near Athens. Under his administration New College was erected in
1831, Ivy Building and a chapel in 1832, and Phi Kappa Hall in 1834, Middlebury
college conferred upon him the degree of D.D. in 1830. He died at Athens, Ga.,
May 18, 1862.
!SOURCE: "Descendants of Reuben Church," email from Rita Guzzo (email hidden), 5 Feb 2014. Gives birth 21 Mar 1757 in Hardwick, Mass., death 18 Sep 1834 in Brattleboro, Vermont, marriage 26 May 1780.
RIN 667. Quick link to this page: https://genweb.whipple.org/667
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