HISTORY OF KENTUCKY, by Lewis Collins, and J.A. & U.P. James, published 
1847.  Reprinted by Henry Clay Press, Lexington, Ky., 1968, p.136. 
[Bourbon county].

The REV. JOHN LYLE was a native of Rockbridge county, Va., born on 20th 
October, 1769.  He was licensed to preach the gospel in 1795.  In 1797, 
he came to Kentucky as a missionary, and in 1800 took charge of Salem 
church, where he remained for several years.  Mr. Lyle subsequently 
moved to Paris, where he established a female academy, which became one 
of the most flourishing in the state, embracing from 150 to 200 pupils.  
In 1809, he declined teaching, but continued in the active discharge of 
his ministerial labors until 1825, on the 22d of July of which year he 
departed this life.  He bore a prominent part in the trying scenes 
through which the church was called to pass during the early period of 
his ministry.  He was a man of sound judgment and studious habits; his 
manner, in the pulpit, feeling and earnest, and his matter sensible.  As 
an evidence of the blessed fruits of his faithful, earnest and 
affectionate style of preaching, on one occasion, at Mount Pleasant, the 
Rev. William L. McCalla noted the names of thirty-three persons 
impressed by the sermon, thirty-one of whom afterward became respectable 
members of the church. [Presbyterian].

Lyle McCalla
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Rockbridge-VA

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