Cedarville College Memorabilia

REV. J. F. MORT01 , D. D. Jame Foyil Murton, on of James and Mary (Brackenridge) Morton, wa born near Fayetteville, Lincoln county, Tenn., January 18, 1 2 . ln early boyhood, hi father' family removed to Salem, Illinois, where hi year were pent upon the farm and in the work of teaching. He completed hi lit rary and theological our. e i11 Monmouth college and the Theological Seminary then located there, ~raduating fro~ the form r in 1 61, and the latter the following year. He wa licen ed to preach the go pel by the Western R formed Pre bytery, April 1 62. Haviug received and ace pted a call from the edarville Reformed Pre byterian church he wa ordained and in tailed pa tor May rn, 1 63. He wa married to :\ti.. \lartha Blair, of Sparta, Ill., June 3, 1 63, who, with one on and two daugh– ter.,. urvive to mourn hi departure. He wa moderator of General Synod in I ii and 1 :I. ln l 1 Monmouth college coni rred upon him th d gre of Doc– tqr of Di\'init~. At th organization of Cedarvill ollcg in 1 Hl he was cho n Vi <' Pr 0. id ·nt and continued to fill thi po ition until hi d ath. fter a lingering illlll·.. , patiently endured, he fell a le p Sabbath mornini;, May :n, l!lOB. He r . t from !ti. la hors and hi work follow him. 21}