Son of David and Jemimia Spratt Wrightnour
Baptist Minister
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WRIGHTNOUR J. S., Rev., D.D. - January 9, 1919 - With profound sorrow the people of Clarion learned while on the train going to his new charge at Bellows Falls, Vt. last Saturday, January 4, 1918, Rev. J. S. Wrightnour, D. D. suddenly died from heart trouble. The Sunday previous they had listened to him preach an eloquent and very Impressive farewell sermon in the First Baptist Church of Clarion, and the next morning he and Mrs. Wrightnour took their departure stopping to visit friends at Brookville for a day and then going on to visit their daughter at Scranton, Pa., where Mrs. Wrightnour was to remain until their household goods had arrived and the parsonage was prepared for her coming. Dr. Wrightnour was on the train and on his way to take up his duties as pastor and preach for his new congregation last Sunday, when he was called to go up higher and his spirit went over to the New Jerusalem to spend his first Sabbath, or first part of the eternal Sabbath in the home of the soul. John Spratt Wrightnour was born March 15, 1851, at Penn Line, Crawford County, Pa., the son of Rev. Geo. Spratt Wrightnour and wife. For some time Mr. Wrightnour made his home at Lewisburg, Pa., where he became student in the University of Lewisburg, graduating therefrom in 1869, at the age of 18 years and afterwards completed a course at Crozier Baptist Theological Seminary. He started his ministry as pastor of Pequa Baptist church in Lancaster County, and then was student pastor at Johnstown, Pa. For three years he was pastor of the Brookville Baptist church, and then served the Penn Avenue Baptist church, Pittsburgh, Pa., for a term of nine and a half years. The following eleven years he was pastor of the Baptist churches at Warren, 0., Xenia, 0., and Lincoln, Ill., after which he served the large Baptist church in Oil City for seven years. Resigning his pastorate in Oil City, he accepted the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Scranton, Pa., and for seventeen years successfully led his people. He then resigned and was called to the First Baptist Church of Clarion, which he served with devotion and signal ability until the Sunday previous to his death. Throughout the active years of his ministry he received more than 2,000 souls into the fellowship of the churches served, 1200 of whom he immersed. He also was the author of the following books which were published, namely: "Scientific Accuracy of the Bible," "Christian Doctrine for Young People," and "The Rift in the Cloud." The degree of Doctor of Divinity was bestowed upon him by his alma mater, Bucknell University, in 1896. On June 10, 1874, Rev. Wrightnour and Miss Ida May Frampton were united in marriage, his wife now surviving him with the following children: Mrs. W.A. Mallory, and John V. Wrightnour, of Franklin; George S. Wrightnour, Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Ralph Ammerman, New York. One daughter, Ida, preceded him in death. Dr. Wrightnour was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and of the Masonic Fraternity, in which he had reached the 32nd degree. The deceased was a strong preacher of righteousness and was a man of pure and true life. His sermons were always forceful and clear expositions of the truth and had in them also a strong appeal to men to rise to the best that was in them. They also bore the finish of scholarship and wide reading and they were evidently constructed not only to attract and interest people but to convince and win them to the Messiah he served. His long and useful service in the Christian ministry in so many places leaves a host of friends who will learn with sorrow of his death. The world is poorer for his having gone, and we who have known him in Clarion feel a loss that cannot be filled. His remains were taken to Franklin, where his son and daughter reside, and the funeral took place Wednesday afternoon, the Rev. D. Adams, of the Baptist Church, officiating, assisted by Dr. John Ballentine, of the Clarion State Normal faculty.
New Castle News, New Castle Pa. Jan 6, 1919. Pg. 1
Rev. John S. Wrightnour, formerly of Franklin, died on a train in Massachusetts yesterday while on his way to assume a new charge at Bellows Fall, Vt.
Baptist Minister
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WRIGHTNOUR J. S., Rev., D.D. - January 9, 1919 - With profound sorrow the people of Clarion learned while on the train going to his new charge at Bellows Falls, Vt. last Saturday, January 4, 1918, Rev. J. S. Wrightnour, D. D. suddenly died from heart trouble. The Sunday previous they had listened to him preach an eloquent and very Impressive farewell sermon in the First Baptist Church of Clarion, and the next morning he and Mrs. Wrightnour took their departure stopping to visit friends at Brookville for a day and then going on to visit their daughter at Scranton, Pa., where Mrs. Wrightnour was to remain until their household goods had arrived and the parsonage was prepared for her coming. Dr. Wrightnour was on the train and on his way to take up his duties as pastor and preach for his new congregation last Sunday, when he was called to go up higher and his spirit went over to the New Jerusalem to spend his first Sabbath, or first part of the eternal Sabbath in the home of the soul. John Spratt Wrightnour was born March 15, 1851, at Penn Line, Crawford County, Pa., the son of Rev. Geo. Spratt Wrightnour and wife. For some time Mr. Wrightnour made his home at Lewisburg, Pa., where he became student in the University of Lewisburg, graduating therefrom in 1869, at the age of 18 years and afterwards completed a course at Crozier Baptist Theological Seminary. He started his ministry as pastor of Pequa Baptist church in Lancaster County, and then was student pastor at Johnstown, Pa. For three years he was pastor of the Brookville Baptist church, and then served the Penn Avenue Baptist church, Pittsburgh, Pa., for a term of nine and a half years. The following eleven years he was pastor of the Baptist churches at Warren, 0., Xenia, 0., and Lincoln, Ill., after which he served the large Baptist church in Oil City for seven years. Resigning his pastorate in Oil City, he accepted the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Scranton, Pa., and for seventeen years successfully led his people. He then resigned and was called to the First Baptist Church of Clarion, which he served with devotion and signal ability until the Sunday previous to his death. Throughout the active years of his ministry he received more than 2,000 souls into the fellowship of the churches served, 1200 of whom he immersed. He also was the author of the following books which were published, namely: "Scientific Accuracy of the Bible," "Christian Doctrine for Young People," and "The Rift in the Cloud." The degree of Doctor of Divinity was bestowed upon him by his alma mater, Bucknell University, in 1896. On June 10, 1874, Rev. Wrightnour and Miss Ida May Frampton were united in marriage, his wife now surviving him with the following children: Mrs. W.A. Mallory, and John V. Wrightnour, of Franklin; George S. Wrightnour, Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Ralph Ammerman, New York. One daughter, Ida, preceded him in death. Dr. Wrightnour was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and of the Masonic Fraternity, in which he had reached the 32nd degree. The deceased was a strong preacher of righteousness and was a man of pure and true life. His sermons were always forceful and clear expositions of the truth and had in them also a strong appeal to men to rise to the best that was in them. They also bore the finish of scholarship and wide reading and they were evidently constructed not only to attract and interest people but to convince and win them to the Messiah he served. His long and useful service in the Christian ministry in so many places leaves a host of friends who will learn with sorrow of his death. The world is poorer for his having gone, and we who have known him in Clarion feel a loss that cannot be filled. His remains were taken to Franklin, where his son and daughter reside, and the funeral took place Wednesday afternoon, the Rev. D. Adams, of the Baptist Church, officiating, assisted by Dr. John Ballentine, of the Clarion State Normal faculty.
New Castle News, New Castle Pa. Jan 6, 1919. Pg. 1
Rev. John S. Wrightnour, formerly of Franklin, died on a train in Massachusetts yesterday while on his way to assume a new charge at Bellows Fall, Vt.
Son of David and Jemimia Spratt Wrightnour
Baptist Minister
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WRIGHTNOUR J. S., Rev., D.D. - January 9, 1919 - With profound sorrow the people of Clarion learned while on the train going to his new charge at Bellows Falls, Vt. last Saturday, January 4, 1918, Rev. J. S. Wrightnour, D. D. suddenly died from heart trouble. The Sunday previous they had listened to him preach an eloquent and very Impressive farewell sermon in the First Baptist Church of Clarion, and the next morning he and Mrs. Wrightnour took their departure stopping to visit friends at Brookville for a day and then going on to visit their daughter at Scranton, Pa., where Mrs. Wrightnour was to remain until their household goods had arrived and the parsonage was prepared for her coming. Dr. Wrightnour was on the train and on his way to take up his duties as pastor and preach for his new congregation last Sunday, when he was called to go up higher and his spirit went over to the New Jerusalem to spend his first Sabbath, or first part of the eternal Sabbath in the home of the soul. John Spratt Wrightnour was born March 15, 1851, at Penn Line, Crawford County, Pa., the son of Rev. Geo. Spratt Wrightnour and wife. For some time Mr. Wrightnour made his home at Lewisburg, Pa., where he became student in the University of Lewisburg, graduating therefrom in 1869, at the age of 18 years and afterwards completed a course at Crozier Baptist Theological Seminary. He started his ministry as pastor of Pequa Baptist church in Lancaster County, and then was student pastor at Johnstown, Pa. For three years he was pastor of the Brookville Baptist church, and then served the Penn Avenue Baptist church, Pittsburgh, Pa., for a term of nine and a half years. The following eleven years he was pastor of the Baptist churches at Warren, 0., Xenia, 0., and Lincoln, Ill., after which he served the large Baptist church in Oil City for seven years. Resigning his pastorate in Oil City, he accepted the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Scranton, Pa., and for seventeen years successfully led his people. He then resigned and was called to the First Baptist Church of Clarion, which he served with devotion and signal ability until the Sunday previous to his death. Throughout the active years of his ministry he received more than 2,000 souls into the fellowship of the churches served, 1200 of whom he immersed. He also was the author of the following books which were published, namely: "Scientific Accuracy of the Bible," "Christian Doctrine for Young People," and "The Rift in the Cloud." The degree of Doctor of Divinity was bestowed upon him by his alma mater, Bucknell University, in 1896. On June 10, 1874, Rev. Wrightnour and Miss Ida May Frampton were united in marriage, his wife now surviving him with the following children: Mrs. W.A. Mallory, and John V. Wrightnour, of Franklin; George S. Wrightnour, Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Ralph Ammerman, New York. One daughter, Ida, preceded him in death. Dr. Wrightnour was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and of the Masonic Fraternity, in which he had reached the 32nd degree. The deceased was a strong preacher of righteousness and was a man of pure and true life. His sermons were always forceful and clear expositions of the truth and had in them also a strong appeal to men to rise to the best that was in them. They also bore the finish of scholarship and wide reading and they were evidently constructed not only to attract and interest people but to convince and win them to the Messiah he served. His long and useful service in the Christian ministry in so many places leaves a host of friends who will learn with sorrow of his death. The world is poorer for his having gone, and we who have known him in Clarion feel a loss that cannot be filled. His remains were taken to Franklin, where his son and daughter reside, and the funeral took place Wednesday afternoon, the Rev. D. Adams, of the Baptist Church, officiating, assisted by Dr. John Ballentine, of the Clarion State Normal faculty.
New Castle News, New Castle Pa. Jan 6, 1919. Pg. 1
Rev. John S. Wrightnour, formerly of Franklin, died on a train in Massachusetts yesterday while on his way to assume a new charge at Bellows Fall, Vt.
Baptist Minister
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WRIGHTNOUR J. S., Rev., D.D. - January 9, 1919 - With profound sorrow the people of Clarion learned while on the train going to his new charge at Bellows Falls, Vt. last Saturday, January 4, 1918, Rev. J. S. Wrightnour, D. D. suddenly died from heart trouble. The Sunday previous they had listened to him preach an eloquent and very Impressive farewell sermon in the First Baptist Church of Clarion, and the next morning he and Mrs. Wrightnour took their departure stopping to visit friends at Brookville for a day and then going on to visit their daughter at Scranton, Pa., where Mrs. Wrightnour was to remain until their household goods had arrived and the parsonage was prepared for her coming. Dr. Wrightnour was on the train and on his way to take up his duties as pastor and preach for his new congregation last Sunday, when he was called to go up higher and his spirit went over to the New Jerusalem to spend his first Sabbath, or first part of the eternal Sabbath in the home of the soul. John Spratt Wrightnour was born March 15, 1851, at Penn Line, Crawford County, Pa., the son of Rev. Geo. Spratt Wrightnour and wife. For some time Mr. Wrightnour made his home at Lewisburg, Pa., where he became student in the University of Lewisburg, graduating therefrom in 1869, at the age of 18 years and afterwards completed a course at Crozier Baptist Theological Seminary. He started his ministry as pastor of Pequa Baptist church in Lancaster County, and then was student pastor at Johnstown, Pa. For three years he was pastor of the Brookville Baptist church, and then served the Penn Avenue Baptist church, Pittsburgh, Pa., for a term of nine and a half years. The following eleven years he was pastor of the Baptist churches at Warren, 0., Xenia, 0., and Lincoln, Ill., after which he served the large Baptist church in Oil City for seven years. Resigning his pastorate in Oil City, he accepted the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Scranton, Pa., and for seventeen years successfully led his people. He then resigned and was called to the First Baptist Church of Clarion, which he served with devotion and signal ability until the Sunday previous to his death. Throughout the active years of his ministry he received more than 2,000 souls into the fellowship of the churches served, 1200 of whom he immersed. He also was the author of the following books which were published, namely: "Scientific Accuracy of the Bible," "Christian Doctrine for Young People," and "The Rift in the Cloud." The degree of Doctor of Divinity was bestowed upon him by his alma mater, Bucknell University, in 1896. On June 10, 1874, Rev. Wrightnour and Miss Ida May Frampton were united in marriage, his wife now surviving him with the following children: Mrs. W.A. Mallory, and John V. Wrightnour, of Franklin; George S. Wrightnour, Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Ralph Ammerman, New York. One daughter, Ida, preceded him in death. Dr. Wrightnour was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and of the Masonic Fraternity, in which he had reached the 32nd degree. The deceased was a strong preacher of righteousness and was a man of pure and true life. His sermons were always forceful and clear expositions of the truth and had in them also a strong appeal to men to rise to the best that was in them. They also bore the finish of scholarship and wide reading and they were evidently constructed not only to attract and interest people but to convince and win them to the Messiah he served. His long and useful service in the Christian ministry in so many places leaves a host of friends who will learn with sorrow of his death. The world is poorer for his having gone, and we who have known him in Clarion feel a loss that cannot be filled. His remains were taken to Franklin, where his son and daughter reside, and the funeral took place Wednesday afternoon, the Rev. D. Adams, of the Baptist Church, officiating, assisted by Dr. John Ballentine, of the Clarion State Normal faculty.
New Castle News, New Castle Pa. Jan 6, 1919. Pg. 1
Rev. John S. Wrightnour, formerly of Franklin, died on a train in Massachusetts yesterday while on his way to assume a new charge at Bellows Fall, Vt.
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