Robert had two children, Caroline "Carrie" and Montezuma "Montie" with wife Martha, who passed away when Montie was an infant. He and his second wife, Rachel Elizabeth Hull, also had two children, Gertrude and James.
"The first regular missionary assigned to Idaho was Rev. Robert M. Gwinn. He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1833, of Scotch ancestry, and was educated in Pittsburgh, after which he studied law and was admitted to the bar. He served as a sharpshooter in the Union army during the Civil war and in 1866 joined the Methodist Church at Cherry Run, Pennsylvania. In 1870 he was ordained to the ministry and two years later went to Salt Lake City, Utah, where with Bishop Foster and others he assisted in forming the "Rocky Mountain Conference."
"Mr. Gwinn was assigned the Territory of Idaho as his mission field and took up his residence in Boise. Before the close of the year 1872, he organized the First Methodist Church of Boise the first to be organized in Idaho. During the legislative session following his arrival at Boise, Mr. Gwinn served as chaplain. Among other churches organized through his efforts is the one at Caldwell, where Mr. Gwinn passed the closing years of his life, retired from the active work of his profession, after years of assiduous labor traveling by stage coach or on horseback, preaching and organizing the scattered representatives of Methodism into congregations. No man was ever better suited for pioneer missionary work than Mr. Gwinn."
From Hawley's History of Idaho, Gem of the Mountains, 1920, from Chapter 30, pp. 840-841.
"The first regular missionary assigned to Idaho was Rev. Robert M. Gwinn. He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1833, of Scotch ancestry, and was educated in Pittsburgh, after which he studied law and was admitted to the bar. He served as a sharpshooter in the Union army during the Civil war and in 1866 joined the Methodist Church at Cherry Run, Pennsylvania. In 1870 he was ordained to the ministry and two years later went to Salt Lake City, Utah, where with Bishop Foster and others he assisted in forming the "Rocky Mountain Conference."
"Mr. Gwinn was assigned the Territory of Idaho as his mission field and took up his residence in Boise. Before the close of the year 1872, he organized the First Methodist Church of Boise the first to be organized in Idaho. During the legislative session following his arrival at Boise, Mr. Gwinn served as chaplain. Among other churches organized through his efforts is the one at Caldwell, where Mr. Gwinn passed the closing years of his life, retired from the active work of his profession, after years of assiduous labor traveling by stage coach or on horseback, preaching and organizing the scattered representatives of Methodism into congregations. No man was ever better suited for pioneer missionary work than Mr. Gwinn."
From Hawley's History of Idaho, Gem of the Mountains, 1920, from Chapter 30, pp. 840-841.
Robert had two children, Caroline "Carrie" and Montezuma "Montie" with wife Martha, who passed away when Montie was an infant. He and his second wife, Rachel Elizabeth Hull, also had two children, Gertrude and James.
"The first regular missionary assigned to Idaho was Rev. Robert M. Gwinn. He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1833, of Scotch ancestry, and was educated in Pittsburgh, after which he studied law and was admitted to the bar. He served as a sharpshooter in the Union army during the Civil war and in 1866 joined the Methodist Church at Cherry Run, Pennsylvania. In 1870 he was ordained to the ministry and two years later went to Salt Lake City, Utah, where with Bishop Foster and others he assisted in forming the "Rocky Mountain Conference."
"Mr. Gwinn was assigned the Territory of Idaho as his mission field and took up his residence in Boise. Before the close of the year 1872, he organized the First Methodist Church of Boise the first to be organized in Idaho. During the legislative session following his arrival at Boise, Mr. Gwinn served as chaplain. Among other churches organized through his efforts is the one at Caldwell, where Mr. Gwinn passed the closing years of his life, retired from the active work of his profession, after years of assiduous labor traveling by stage coach or on horseback, preaching and organizing the scattered representatives of Methodism into congregations. No man was ever better suited for pioneer missionary work than Mr. Gwinn."
From Hawley's History of Idaho, Gem of the Mountains, 1920, from Chapter 30, pp. 840-841.
"The first regular missionary assigned to Idaho was Rev. Robert M. Gwinn. He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, June 5, 1833, of Scotch ancestry, and was educated in Pittsburgh, after which he studied law and was admitted to the bar. He served as a sharpshooter in the Union army during the Civil war and in 1866 joined the Methodist Church at Cherry Run, Pennsylvania. In 1870 he was ordained to the ministry and two years later went to Salt Lake City, Utah, where with Bishop Foster and others he assisted in forming the "Rocky Mountain Conference."
"Mr. Gwinn was assigned the Territory of Idaho as his mission field and took up his residence in Boise. Before the close of the year 1872, he organized the First Methodist Church of Boise the first to be organized in Idaho. During the legislative session following his arrival at Boise, Mr. Gwinn served as chaplain. Among other churches organized through his efforts is the one at Caldwell, where Mr. Gwinn passed the closing years of his life, retired from the active work of his profession, after years of assiduous labor traveling by stage coach or on horseback, preaching and organizing the scattered representatives of Methodism into congregations. No man was ever better suited for pioneer missionary work than Mr. Gwinn."
From Hawley's History of Idaho, Gem of the Mountains, 1920, from Chapter 30, pp. 840-841.
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