Rev. William Barr Minton was born in Sumner County, Tennessee, October 21, 1849.
His father, Robert B. Minton has been Professor of Mathematics in Blackburn
University, Carbondale, Illinois, an institution which he took charge of when
William was thirteen years of age, and where the latter graduated in 1870, being
not quite twenty-one years old. In the fall of 1871, he was licensed to preach
by the Alton Presbytery. In May, 1874, he graduated at the Auburn (N.Y.)
Theological Seminary, being ordained in April, 1874, to the full functions of
the ministry, by the Cairo Presbytery. His residence is at Anna, and he is
exerting a large influence over a wide circle of churches in Southern Illinois –
an able, zealous and practical preacher.
Contributed 2022 Jul 31 by Norma Hass, extracted from 1876 Atlas of the State of Illinois, page 242.
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