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of Franklin College. His biographer says--"Every
body loved him." He was characterized by great
energy, and usually accomplished what he undertook.
He died at the early age of forty-eight.
Elder Lewis Morgan was a native of Tennessee,
born in 1788; in 1816 he came to Shelby county, In-
diana, and settled in the forest, his nearest neighbor
being twelve miles away. He was an interested and
active participant in the Baptist movements of the
State, being one of the founders of both the General
Association and of Franklin College. For a time he
was in the service of the college as Financial Agent.
He died at his home in Iowa in 1852.
Elder Benjamin Reece was a constituent member
of the Second Mount Pleasant church, was licensed
by it to preach, in 1835, and was ordained in 1838.
He was pastor of the church from the time of his
ordination till his death, which occurred in 1853; and
was moderator of the Association for thirteen con-
secutive years. He was a strong man and greatly
venerated by his brethren.
Elder John Reece, son of the above-mentioned, was
licensed to preach by the Second Mount Pleasant
church in 1839, and the next year it called a council
for his ordination. He was moderator of his associa-
tion for eighteen years. He had many of the char-
acteristics of his father--earnest piety, sterling integ-
rity and complete loyalty to Christ. He died at his
home in Shelbyville in July, 1894.
Elder William Moore was born in Kentucky in
1800; was a constituent member of the Haw Creek
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church, Indiana, and was its pastor for twenty-six
years. "He gave the flower of his youth, the prime
of his manhood and his hoary headed age to the ad-
vancement of his Master's kingdom." He died in
1871.
Elder Joshua Currier came to the Greensburg
church in 1841, sent by the American Baptist Home
Mission Society. He had enjoyed intellectual advan-
tages, and his abilities were soon recognized. He
was clerk of the Flat Rock Association for five years.
As the church was small and financially weak, he and
his wife earned part of their support by teaching.
Elder J. W. B. Tisdale was pastor of the Greens-
burg church from 1857 to 1859. He urged the build-
ing of a new meeting house and was efficient in su-
perintending its construction. He also was a man
of liberal education and exerted a wide and whole-
some influence not only in his own Association but
also in the whole State.
Time would fail to tell at length of the work of the
Rev. Jeremiah Cell, the excellent preacher; Rev. M.
B. Phares, a graduate of Franklin College and one of
the most efficient pulpit orators the State ever had;
the Rev. John Potter, also a graduate of the college
and probably the best moderator the Association ever
had; the Rev. J. B. Schaff, who together with his
wife did such effective work in building up the Shel-
byville church; W. C. E. Wanee, the liberal chris-
tian layman who was deeply interested in all lines of
work for God's kingdom, and who was efficient in
having a monument reared where the Indiana Bap-
