A History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than 
800 Biographical Sketches, J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and 
Corrected by Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two Volumes.  Printed For the 
Author.  1886.  Republished By Church History Research & Archives 1976 
Lafayette, Tennessee. Vol. 2, pp 383-384.  [Fayette County]

ROBERT W. JANUARY was called to the ministry, and labored a short time 
with zeal and success, within the limits of Bethel Association.  He was 
born in Fayette county, Ky., in 1798.  At about the age of twenty-one 
years, he was married to Harriet Postlewait, in Lexington. He made a 
profession of religion, in early life, and united with the Cumberland 
Presbyterian church.  By this community, he was set apart to the 
ministry, and labored under its auspices a number of years.  About the 
year 1838, his view on the subject of Baptism underwent a change, and he 
united with the Baptist church at Union, in Logan county.  Here he was 
ordained to the ministry, the same year, by James Lamb and Dudley 
Robinson. He was appointed missionary within the bounds of Bethel 
Association, in 1840, and was the first who filled that position, under 
the appointment of a local board.  He labored in that capacity a little 
less than six months, and reported to the board, that he had ridden 
1,833 miles, preached 196 sermons, delivered seventy one exhortations 
and six temperance lectures, organized six temperance societies, aided 
in constituting two churches and witnessed 160 conversions - surely he 
must have wasted but little time.
     In 1841, he moved to Davidson county, Tenn., and, two years later, 
to the adjoining county of Rutherford.  "For the first ten years after 
Elder January removed to Tennessee, says Dr. Hillsman, in Borum's 
Sketches, "he was one of the most active, zealous, and useful members in 
Concord Association, both as an evangelist and a pastor."  During this 
period he claimed to have discovered a remedy for cancer, and commenced 
treating patients for that direful disease.  In his practice he gained 
considerable notoriety.  But his medical practice interfered with his 
ministry, and about the year 1856, he desisted from preaching 
altogether.  In 1863, he moved to Gibson county, Tenn., where he died, 
May 19, 1866.

January Postlewait Lamb Robinson Hillsmas Borum 
=
Logan-KY Davidson-TN Rutherford-TN Gibson-TN

http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/fayette/january.rw.txt