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University, and also an author of note; and the younger
a successful physician and surgeon in the city of
Mexico. He died in October, 1889, and his body was
taken to his old home at North Madison for burial.
The Rev. Matthew B. Phares came to Franklin
College from little Blue River church in Shelby
county; a church which also furnished the following
ministers to the Baptist denomination: the Revs. J.
M. Smith, D. J. Huston, William Golding and J. C.
Rhodes--he was graduated in 1849, and besides hold-
ing several important pastorates, conducted academies
at Vernon, Dupont and Greensburg. He was an ac-
curate scholar and a very attractive speaker. He died
in 1862 in the prime of life while pastor of the Greens-
burg church.
Many other ministers doubtless deserve as full and
favorable mention as these, but definite data are lack-
ing. The Rev. E. D. Owen will long be remembered
as the man who originated and for a while published
the Christian Messenger--finally merged into the
Journal and Messenger of Cincinnati, Ohio. The
Rev. Caleb Moncrief, the plain Scotchman, who had
the courage to ask a brother noted for his long
prayers to "please lead us in some new short prayer;"
the Rev. William Wallace, who believed in progress;
the Rev. Andrew Baker, who used his knowledge of
astronomy to good effect in his preaching; the Rev.
Alexander Connelly, who had mastered a large sec-
tion of general history, and knew how to use it; the
Rev. Robert Stevenson, who knew his Bible, and who
was the doughty champion of Calvinism, and whom
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nobody cared to meet in debate; the Rev. J. B. Swin-
cher, who was in demand far and near to assist in
evangelistic meetings; the Rev. Thomas George, the
fervent preacher of the old gospel; the Rev. John G.
Craven, the teacher, and friend of the negro; the Rev.
T. A. Childs, the unselfish and always busy servant
of Christ; and not least the Rev. C. E. W. Dobbs,
D. D., who was pastor of the Madison church from
1882 to 1884. He was by far the ablest exegetical
scholar and preacher among the Baptists of the State,
and was interested as well in the local history of the
denomination. In 1883 he read a history of Madison
Association at its annual meeting at Hebron church.
The future historian of the Indiana Baptists will be
sure to rely much on the facts gathered and organized
in this pamphlet.
TIPPECANOE ASSOCIATION -- (COUNTIES OF TIPPECA-
NOE, CARROLL AND MONTGOMERY.)
The Association was constituted at Delphi in 1883.
Deacon Lewis Johnson was elected moderator and
Elder L. Fairman, clerk. That this Association was
to stand for progressive ideas may be readily inferred
from the fact that the churches forming it had de-
cided to join Sugar Creek Association, but finding
that a strong anti-mission spirit pervaded that body,
declined, and proceeded to form an Association of
churches believing in the promulgation of the gospel
to the ends of the earth. The churches which united
to form the Association were Dayton, Delphi, Grand
Prairie and Logansport; at the third session the fol-
