Notes for Daniel CLARK

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Notes for Daniel CLARK

C.C. Gardner, at page 95, refers to him as "A Baptist Preacher."
Other information is from booklet prepared by Josephine Zadina, page 20+.
Elder Daniel Clark, the pioneer Baptist preacher, in 1797 settled upon a little tract of land purchased by him about four miles northeast of the site of Lebanon. He was a native of Pennsylvania, and was licensed to preach in that State, and, about
1790, removed to Columbia, where he preached to the Baptists in the absence of Elder John Smith. James McBride, in his pioneer biographies, says of the Baptists at Columbia: “In February, 1792, the congregation resolved to build a house of worship,
which was to be thirty-six feet long by thirty feet wide, with galleries. It was not completed until late in the year 1793. On September 23, 1793, Elder John Gano, a venerable Baptist minister, visited Columbia and preached to a large and attentive
congregation in a beautiful grove of elms near the village (the meeting-house not being yet completed). After the sermon, Mr. Gano, in connection with the pastor, Mr. Smith, ordained Daniel Clark to the Gospel ministry, in a solemn and impressive
manner. This was the first ordination in the Miami country.” Elder Clark is regarded as not only the first ordained minister in the Miami country, but the first in the Northwest Territory. He began preaching at the Clear Creek and Turtle Creek Baptist
Churches about 1798, and continued to preach at Lebanon until he became too feeble by reason of old age. He died in 1834, aged ninety years. He is described as a plain man, with little education, his sermons being marked by frequent quotations from the
Scriptures. The Bible is said to have been the only book with which he was familiar, except, perhaps, ”Pilgrim’s Progress.” but his life and conduct commanded respect and confidence.
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Tombstone: First Pastor of the Baptist Church Lebanon from 1798 to 1830 who
died Dec. 11, 1834
aged 90 years.
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