Samuel Rutherford McClurkin

1848 – 1911

By: Roger Kemps © 2010

 

 

The following was copied from the Sketches of Ministers section on pages 582 and 583 of "History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America"

 

SAMUEL RUTHERFORD McCLURKIN

 

Son of Thomas and Martha (Kirkpatrick) McClurkin, was born near Oakdale, Washington County, Illinois, September 12, 1848. He received his early education in the common schools, and attended respectively, Sparta Academy, Monmouth College, Iowa University, and graduated from Westminster College in 1872. He studied theology in the Allegheny Seminary, and was licensed by the Illinois Presbytery, May 26, 1875. He was ordained by the Ohio Presbytery, and installed pastor of the Middle Wheeling congregation, Roney's Point, Ohio County, West Virginia, September 14, 1876, where he is in charge. He married Miss Jennie M. Ferguson, of Brownsville, Ohio, October 24, 1878.

 

The following was copied from pages 194 and 195 of "Sketches of the Ministers of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America from 1888 to 1930."

 

SAMUEL RUTHERFORD McCLURKIN


S. R. MCCLURKIN'S biographical sketch appears in
Glasgow's History. In the year 1888, the year in which that volume appeared, he was pastor of the Middle Wheeling congregation, Roney's Point, West Virginia. In June of that year he was released from this pastorate by Ohio Presbytery. In the year 1890 he was certified to Lakes Presbytery and installed pastor of the Fairgrove, Michigan, congregation on May 16, 1890. On June 7, 1895, he was released from the pastorate of this congregation and soon after left the communion of the Reformed Presbyterian Church to enter that of the Presbyterian Church. He held two pastorates in the Presbyterian Church. He passed from this life while pastor of his second charge in that denomination. This call came to him at New Matamoris, Ohio, on September 16, 1911. His beloved wife had preceded him to the Heavenly Home by only a few months. He had been ordained to the Gospel Ministry on September 14, 1876.

 

 

For additional information related to his parents and siblings, see the Outline Descendant Report of Thomas McClurken and the Ancestor Tree.

 

Reference Sources:

History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America

The Ministerial Directory Volume 1

Sketches of the Ministers of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America

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