County of Christian, Kentucky.  Historical and Biographical.  Edited by 
William Henry Perrin.  F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884, pp. 404-405.
Hopkinsville City and Precinct.

PROF. J. W. RUST, who is a remarkable exemplification of success attained
under great difficulties, is one of the most prominent Baptists in
Kentucky, his native State.  Born in Logan County, February 14, 1819, he
developed in early life a fondness for books, although working on a farm
until he was fifteen years of age.  With a few months' schooling at a
time, in all thirteen months, in addition to private application, he
learned to read, write and cypher.  Without friends to help or money to
sustain him, he determined to qualify himself to teach, and such was his
persistency, energy, tact and safacity that, by the time he had fairly
reached manhood, he had earned a reputation as a teacher, which was
rewarded with the unsolicited honor of A. M. by two respectable colleges;
and for nearly forty-seven years his success as a teacher has been
invariably great and gratifying.  From 1864 to 1868 he was President of
the Bethel College at Russellville, and during his administration the
college attained its greatest patronage.  As editor of the Western
Recorder, he became a power among his brethren.  Although not a minister,
he has done much to encourage the spread of Gospel; as a Sunday school
worker, he has been very useful; nor has anyone done more than he to keep
Baptist interests before the public.  For several years he was Secretary
of the General Association of Kentucky, and is now President of Bethel
Female College, at Hopkinsville, Ky., which, under his care, is in a
flourishing condition.  He is still exerting a good influence in behalf of
education and Sunday-schools, being President of the Sunday-school
Convention of the Bethel Association.  President Rust is an extraordinary
man in many respects, and of great versatility of talent, having succeeded
admirably in every sphere of labor it has been his lot to occupy.  He is
an excellent educator, and was a superior editor.  No man is more
universally popular in his native State, Kentucky.  In 1881 the honorary
degree of LL. D was conferred on him by the Southern Baptist University at
Jackson, Tenn.  A ready writer and fluent, forcible speaker, Dr. Rust has
made an impression for good wherever he has lived, and his life presents
many studies of interest and encouragement to the young.

Rust
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Russellville-Logan-KY TN

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