Pennsylvania: John Valentine McAninch, 1859-1902 |
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“John Valentine McAninch, a graduate of Western Theological Seminary, received a full-time call. While still a divinity student he stood before the Tionesta, Pa. (Forest Co.) [Church] and his message and personality won universal approval. After graduating with honors from the Seminary he was ordained and installed on June 2, 1889, in Tionesta, Pa., his first and only pastorate. |
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He was born on a farm near Callensburg, Pa. (Clarion County), on April 12, 1859. Graduated from Rimersburg Academy at age 17 (also in Clarion County) and became a school teacher. [He] became “saved” in 1878 at Blair’s Corners school house where he taught. Religious meetings were also held there. |
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He joined the Presbyterian Church at Curllsville, Pa. (Clarion County) (the Licking Presbyterian Church) and in September 1881 entered Washington and Jefferson College. [He] worked to pay his way through college by public school teaching and graduated in June 1886. He then enrolled in the Western Theological Seminary, graduating in 1889. |
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In 1896 he took on the added responsibilities as pastor of the Endeavor Presbyterian Church (Forest County) For several years he attended the Moody Institute at Northfield, Mass. He was stricken with a fatal disease and died, Sept. 17, 1902, at the home of his brother in Lamartine, [Clarion Co.], Pa. [He was] buried in Riverside Cemetery, Tionesta, Forest Co., Pa.” |
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This was transcribed in 1983 (2-5-83) by Bill Mackey, Tionesta, Pa. 16353, with two notes “Saw a stained glass window in the church that was dedicated in his honor”, and “He is highly lauded in the History of the Presbyterian Church of Tionesta, Pa., in a volume numbered 974.81P”. |
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Received August, 1997, from James F. McAninch, Martins Ferry, Ohio, with the annotation |
“Enclosed is a note and letter sent to my father by a cousin of mine in 1983”. Thank you, Jim. |
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Saturn: 1997: “McAninch” signatures are now en-route to the planet Saturn on the Cassini spacecraft, launched by NASA on Oct. 15, 1997. Cassini is the Saturn Orbiter mission built by Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), Cal Tech, Pasadena. Spacecraft carries a Huygens probe (European Space Agency), to enter Titan’s atmosphere (Titan is Saturn’s largest moon). Signatures were scanned onto CD-ROM by The Planetary Society, and launched onboard the spacecraft. <http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini> |
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Tennessee: Giles County, early 1800’s: |
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1. “Daniel McAnnich” [sic], on the Tenth Day of the 1820 Census, page 45, with the comment |
“I [Flournoy Rivers] think he [census taker] must have been S.W. of Pulaski on this days work”. |
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2. “The [court record] books for 1817 -18 -19 -20 -21 -22 and -23 are lost; nothing more appears |
until the November Court, 1823 ... Many skips in the thirties also”, page 30, and |
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3. Mt. Moriah (Cumberland Presbyterian) Church and Cemetery, pages 28, 119-122 ... |
“located six miles west of Pulaski, Tenn.” ... “first settlements in the neighborhood of this church were made in the year 1808” ... “Mt. Moriah congregation was therefore organized in the month of March 1810, and was the first congregation thus organized [in Tennessee?] in the history of the Cumberland Presbyterian church” ... [there are two McAninch burials at Mt. Moriah cemetery] |
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Flournoy Rivers' Manuscripts, and History of Pisgah, by W. Thomas Cardin, compiled by Clara M. Parker and Edward Jackson White [Flournoy Rivers was a lawyer and historian in Giles County, in 1880’s & 1890’s; his Manuscripts were published in the Pulaski Citizen (newspaper), 1895-1898]. |
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Tennessee: 1819: “McAnnack, John, Gi-1819”, Giles County, in Index to Early Tennessee Tax Lists, Byron and Barbara Sistler, Evanston, IL, 1977; at Oklahoma Historical Soc., Oklahoma City, 1997 |
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McAninch Family History NL, V-4 November, 1997 Copyright Frank McAninch page 1997-28 |