"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone.  Probably published in 1944 by 
Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky,  pp. 348-349.  
Used by permission.  [Daviess]

JOSIAH BRIDGES SOLOMON, D.D.:  The subject of this sketch was a 
native of North Carolina.  He was the first son and third child born 
to Jeremiah and Elizabeth Bridges Solomon, natives also of North 
Carolina.  The date of his birth was January 18, 1824.  Our subject 
was reared on a farm.  At the age of eighteen he was converted and 
baptized into the fellowship of a Baptist Church by Elder P. H. 
Smith.  He obtained a good academic education and then attended Wake 
Forest College where he received the M.A. degree in 1851.  Sometime 
previous to this he had been licensed to preach, in 1844, and, in 
1848, was ordained by the Haywood Church in his native state.
     During the years 1850-1851 he did mission work under the 
auspices of the State Mission Board of North Carolina.  From his 
labors in this field grew four churches directly, and indirectly a 
number of others.  His health failed him in this work and he 
returned to the farm for two years.  In January, 1854, he accepted 
the care of the church at Warrenton, N. C., remaining six years, the 
membership in the meantime, increasing from twenty-five to 150.  
While here he engaged in a debate with a Methodist preacher and the 
result was that he baptized a large number of Methodists into the 
fellowship of his church.
	In 1860 he became pastor of the Eighth Street Church, in 
Richmond, Va., where he remained until the close of the Civil War.  
He spent the years 1865-1866 on the farm again and in 1867 entered 
into the educational field.  This was during the period of 
reconstruction and the work proved to be hard, especially from a 
pecuniary standpoint.  From the year 1870 to 1875 he served as 
Professor of English in West Virginia State University and in the 
latter period as President of Monongahelia College in Pennsylvania.  
In October, 1875, he accepted the care of the First Church in Sharon, 
Pa., remaining there until the close of January, 1880, when he came 
to Owensboro, Ky., to pastor the First Baptist Church.  While here 
the property of the Church was improved to the extent of several 
thousand dollars.  Brother Solomon preached the Annual Sermon before 
the Daviess County Association in 1884.  The only history of the 
First Baptist Church ever published, up until that time, was written 
by him and printed in the minutes of the Association in 1883.
	From Owensboro he went to Huntington, Indiana, where he remained 
for several years.  He then returned to Kentucky and pastored the 
churches at Hawesville and Lewisport, in Kentucky, and Cannelton, in 
Indiana, making his home with his daughter in Henderson, Ky., where 
he died on November 1, 1906, in his eighty-third year.
	Dr. Solomon was united in marriage to Miss Mary M. Burges, a 
native of Warrenton, N. C., in October, 1849.  Seven children were 
born to this union.  Five of them were living while he served as 
pastor in Owensboro.  Dr. Solomon was a Christian gentleman in every 
respect and was rarely excelled as a preacher.  He was logical and 
systematic, yet with a fine sense of imagery.  It could truly be said 
of him that he was a man of God and served his generation well.  He 
received the Degree of D.D. from Southwestern University in Jackson, 
Tenn., in 1870, and the same degree from Bethel College in 1881.

Solomon Smith Burges
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NC VA WV PA IN TN

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