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Minister's Record-.\tichigan Conference
This i11fo rmation is being g3 thered for h istorical purpos.:s
1-Name .Jl;t:.~~~_, ___B_w.::Q.___ AlJ.¥.~--------------- (a) Date, place of birth -~~~!----~-~-'----~-?.~-~!...?..~~~~~~-'----~ ch .
(b) If deceased, date of death
(c) Place of burial
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2-Father's name .J~.m~-~---~"'-~ t~J.).___
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Birth, date, placeQg_~ ..----~~-~----~-~~-~ !... 9.~~-~ !~.! ~~-I?:~da
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4-Brothers________ Q~-~'--~--JY.~l.t.~_;t: ___~ !'!k~_; ___ Y!.t.~_:u.~m..A.!...R~-~K~_:___ ~Q-~-~--~-~ -~-~-~-~-~..----------------------·
5- Sisters ____ _____ .Nons: _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________----·
Names and places of residence:, if Jiving. will be alJp rt•cbted
6- Marriage, date, place __ __Mar.oh ..~_, ___ l9_0.6;..Jiow.e.ll_,___ M1_Q;t).J _g@;____RY...~~-Y.•....Q_.____Q_
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(a) Wife's maiden name, birth, place
Cl .a.ra ..M.u r.ni.gh.a n .;. ...A.ug.._ ___9_,_ __.l,e_eJ;. ___Hg_w.~l.l. _,_ ___~_g:htga.n •
If there were subs.:quent marriages, please g ive informa tion
7-Cbildren, names, date and place of birth. vocation, names of married daughters
(a) ____ J .a.me.a .. A.ll.y_n __ Jl.+: ak_~ __________ _______ ____ ___ Residence ~.9-~ -~~ _1 ___ ~ -~~~ -~ ~ ! ______ ------------- --- _____ _______ -·
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l9 l Z; S t . Louis, M1ohigan. Residence
employme nt with the Ohio
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(f) _,_:t~-~Qh1.~--~-Q.f.~.e-~_1Q.~.------------------ Residence --------------------------------------------------------------·.--------·
If chilrlnm have att:\ined promintnce, please give iuform:. tio11 and any other information of interest
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8- Eduration-schools attended. Give names and locations
(a) Ruralschools Crane Soho o l, No . 3' (b) Highschools Bl is..sfie l d H. S. ( 1 904)
·Bl"i-·a-~rt ·e- ld·-·Twp:··; ···tanawee Co. F1 r·st ··u~l-:te ·ge · · ye-a.r ··a-t ·· tta:p-e-rW.lle.
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!)-Christian expt rience and training
(n) Conversion, when, where, under whose labors_ ___ A.bo~ -- l.H9~ -, ---Bllsa£ 1e-~ d, ...R.a7.....H.•... Yo.el.ker •
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(d) Offices held in local church Pre s1 dent Y. P. A. ; ( I b e-1 1 eve ) de l e gate to several
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to-Ministry
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(c) RccommendedbyCongn·gation Bl issf'ie l d, Mioh.
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(d) Licensed, when, where, Conference
(e) c9r fl'&tt oe tr,~ ant udi e s f o r
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pastor
Rev.
Adam Soheurer
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Apr. 9, 1 9 0 4 ; Buchan a n , Mi oh. i . M1-.~h-· Conf.
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Credentials, fron:t~U._.Q.b_, ____Qo.nf.,__, ___ ~.v •... Aa.a •Renomination , to_ p,r_ ~ _aby_te r.:y: ..o.! ...S.a..g1.naw -t
(April, 1908 )
Al.oConference 0 reaby t er1 an Church , U.S.A .
It -Pastorates held, when, whcrc.. ca.r.l e.ton,... E.vange.li.o.a.l ., .. J)i.rouLt.r- -1 9.06.·-- 1 908-;·-...-.------Studant Su pply work in Bri~geport, & s~ginaw, Mioh;, Apr., 19 0 8--Sept . , 19lg ;
P a a tor·at ·e·a! ·--or·da:tneni" ·1!1 nt ·~Jter , - Pr a abyterr <:J r ··sagfnaw, --· S"ep ·t~--- -ro·; · ··r9l2'~- --·e; t
S t . Louie, ~oh., & oontinued Pastor there until ~{!U". 15, 1914;- then t>11etor
at ~~p oleon, Ohio, 1914- Sep t. l, 19 17; then at HousW of Hope nresb. Church,
Elgin, Ill., unti l Ap ril 1, 192Z; ai n ~e t h en, "!i'i rst r>re ab. Ch. , Koko mo, Ind.
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14-Politi'r.al affiliations and offices held
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de nomina tio na1 Stewardship E saay Conte at, 1918.
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Note:..,
We are desiTous of securing for the H istorical files of t he Michi~an Conference complete and detailed
information concerning all ministers who have served and are now serving in the Conference. The above outline
is intended to assist in securing such informat ion in more or less uniform outlines. We urge the addition on a ·
separa.te sheet, of such other important and interesting information as cannot be conveniently placed on this blank.
In the case of men now living, the information can, of course, be only up . to date. Photographs of living and
der<'ased ministers, clim·ies, letters and documents of historical intPrest are earnestly solicited. Your co-operation
in behalf of the Conference Historical work will be greatly appreciated . K indly return the blank t o the Conference Historian, W. H. Watson, I~a#.tmMeo, Michigan.
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First P.resbyterian Church
H urd Allyn Drake, D . D ., Pastor
K okomo, Indiana
Feb. 12', 193'6
Rev. W. H. Watson,
191'5 Leslie Avenue,
Detro 1 t, Michigan • .
Dear Brother Watson:
I have been greatly interested in your letter and blank.
A tremendous load of work:l has made me very slow in replying,
which causes me r~gret. It was a pleasure to hear from you
and to reaall our fellowship; for my memries of the Michigan
Conference are all pleasant and happy ones. Lik&ly after
nearly Z8 years, I may need to remind y ou that my change of
denomination came about because I ha d an opportunity to go on
wdth my education in connection with the Presbyterian Church,
and not because' of any unhappiness in the f·ellow'Ship--. I have
made brief refer~nce to that fact in the blank.
I want to congratulate
success in the min~stry. I
a District Superintendent.
my hearty greetings. Where
licensed the same day and I
you on your seTV'iice and evtdent
note that Conrad Wilkie is also
When you see him, please g1 ve him
1 s He-nr·y VOe-lker'? He and I were
always thought a lot of" him.
Referring to the statistics under item 15, I ask your help.
You will oote that I have filled in "Conversions"· and "Members
received into the church" in pencil,, with a notation, "See
letter. n· Those figures lrilould have added to them the f1 gures
you can seoure from the Conference Journals of 1907 and 1 908,
for Carleton Ciroui~ whioh then included Carleton, Ash Center
and Exeter . Wi ll you be so kind as to do this for me? I ha~
the Journals, but they are packed away in an unheated roGliD in
the baok of our house and I am not sure of the exact place e1 ther·.
If i"t is not too muoh trouble, I should like to have you send me
your findings for those two years, my first in the minist ry.
The statistics surprise me a little. For instance, I would have
thought I had held more than 40~ funerals. The miles travelled
during my mimstry would run up a large total, but I have not ~ep t
account , and so will not guess at it . I thanked ~«XX God and
took courage when I noted the proportion of conversions to total
number of members reoei ved. I would have guessed that the ones
received by letter would ha-,e been tw1.ce as many.
I have no photograph sui table for sending at present; 'rut
have a out I could loan you if you desired it. Of course , yo u
would not be interested in that unless you were gping to prin t
your findings. Kindly use my full name. My father suggested
the use of 1 t to me years ago, and 1 t has become second nature.
May God richly bless you'.
Fraternally,
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WH0 1 S WHO I N THE CLERGY
I1.11.AKE , HURD ALLYN:
Pastor, First Presbyterian Churoh, Kokoao, Indiana; born
Feb. ll 1885, Pontiac, Mich., son of James Littell and Sarah
Louisa iPreston) Drake.
Educated: Aiuna College (Mich.). A. B.,
1911; Winona Lake School of Theology, M. A., 19301 Hanover Coll~ge,
D. D., 193'1.
Married: Clara Murni ghan, March 31, 1906.
Orda.fned Minister·, Pres-byterian Church in u. s. A. by Presbytery
of Saginaw, Sept. 10, 1913'.
Pastor-: Firat n1•eabyterian Church,
St. Louis, Mich.; 1912-14; First Presbyterian Church, Napoleon, Ohio,
1914-17; House of Hope Presbyterian Church, Elgin, Ill., l917-2Z;
First Presbyterian Church, KokoR~C, Ind., since l92Z.
Member of official del egation of Presbyterian Church in U. s. A.
to World Stewaruahip Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland , 1931.
Presiden-t, Advisory Board , Kokomo Junior College. Past-Moderator.,
Presbyteries of· Maumee (no\v Toledo), Ottawa , and Muncie. Examiner
in Theology, Presbytery of Muncie. Chairman: Comndttee on Christian
Eduoation, Presbyt~ry of Munoie; iub-Committee on Winona Camps and
Co 4'l ference a. Past President , Kokomo Mi n1 ate rial Associa.tio n.
President, The Central Group of Churches, Kokomo, Indiana.
Direotor· and Chairman, Nutrition Camp Comndttee, Howard County
Tuberculosis Association. Trustee, Indiana Anti-Saloon Leagu&.
Director and Vice-President, The Winona Institutions-. Member:
Committee on Christian Education, Synod of Indiana.; Adult Curriculum
Construction Group, Presbyterian Board of Christian Education.
Club: Kokollk) Kiwanis (Past-Direator-, now Chairman, Underprivileged
Child Committee. ) •
Author: "Giving God a Square Deal"", 1918;· "General Assembly 1 s
Committee on the Every Uember Plan, New York" (First Prize Essay in a
denomination-wide Stewardship Essay Contest); (Co-author With Elder
T. x. P. Haines of Germantown) "The Offar~ory~ (Hubbard Press, AUburn,
N. Y.), 19 ~4, second edi tionLChuroh World Pres~, Cleveland, Ohio), 1928.
Contributor to ""the Homiletic ReV'iew", "The Presbyterian \ia.gazi ne"',
"The Expositor-", and the new "Expositor and Homiletic Review", Nov., 1935,
and to the publications of the David C. Cook Publishing Company and
the Westminster Press. Writer of oooasional hymns and poems.
Address:
·317 West Walnut Street ,
Kokonr.>, Indiana
G REETINGS AND
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D ear Pastor :
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A s ____:___ e xp ect to live h e re m o re o r less perman ently,
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First Presbyteria n Church of K okomo
U sin g this convenient card f urn is h ed by our new
chu rc h , _________ sen d t his p e rson a lly sig ned requ est, and
t ha n k you in ad va nce for send ing th e le tte r to
First P resbyteria n C h urch Office
3 17 Wes t Walnut Street
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~ okomo, I ndiana
Signei/~~---'_-£-G..(;..c.,.~
P resent A dd ress _tJt_ __'J__
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