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 77-78 [Washington County]

ROBERT LIVINGSTON THURMAN, son of that excellent minister of Christ, 
David Thurman, was born in Washington county, Kentucky, November 19, 
1815.  He was taken by his parents to what is now LaRue county, while he 
was a small child.  Here he was raised upon  farm.  He was converted to 
Christ at the early age of thirteen years, and was baptized by his 
father into the fellowship of Nolin church.  He finished his education 
at Georgetown College, where he graduated in 1842.  He was ordained 
pastor of Severns Valley church, in Elizabethtown, July 25, 1843.  He 
served this church about seven years, conducting a female seminary about 
half of that time.  In January, 1850, he was appointed agent for Indian 
Missions, and in May following, became one of the editors of the Baptist 
Banner, published at Louisville.  In 1851 he accepted an agency for 
Georgetown College, which he prosecuted about four years.  In 1855, he 
accepted a call to the pastoral care of the Baptist church in Austin, 
Texas.  He remained in that position only a few months during which time 
he collected funds to erect a house of worship for that church.  In 
October of the same year, he was appointed agent of the Foreign Mission 
Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, for the State of Kentucky.  He 
prosecuted this agency with satisfactory success, until 1861, when he 
resigned on account of the war.  He was then appointed Superintendent of 
the Executive Board of the General Association.  In 1868, he resumed the 
Foreign Mission agency for Kentucky, and has prosecuted it with a good 
degree of success, to the present time (1885).
	Mr. Thurman has been an enthusiastic advocate of missions from his 
youth, and has been just styled "the prince of agents."  The cause of 
missions, both foreign and domestic, owes much to his unflagging zeal 
and tireless energy.

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