Rev. Martin Luther Rowland and Nannie A. Hull

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Husband Rev. Martin Luther Rowland ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 16 Jan 1848 - South Mahoning Twp, Indiana Co, PA 2
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         Father: William Rowland (1801-1883) 4 5
         Mother: Clarissa Rundel (1809-1897) 4 5

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       Marriage: 6 May 1874 6 7

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Wife Nannie A. Hull ^{1 7}

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         Father: James Hull (      -      ) 7
         Mother: Nancy Bell (      -      ) 7

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Children

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1 F Emma Bell(e) Rowland ^{6 7}

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           Born: 4 May 1875 7
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Clara Ross Rowland ^{6 7}

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           Born: 30 Apr 1877 7
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           Died: Abt Sep 1877
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 F Wilda D. Rowland ^{3 6 7}

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           Born: 20 Aug 1879 7
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         Spouse: Homer H. Claypool (      -      ) 3 7
           Marr: 7 Aug 1912 3 8

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4 M William James Mentor Rowland ⁷

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           Born: 14 Jul 1881 7
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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Martin Luther Rowland

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He was born in South Mahoning township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, on the old family homestead, and attended the local schools. Remaining at home until he was fourteen years old, he then went to Punxsutawney, Jefferson County, where he worked a short time for a Dr. Wood, after which he went to Blacklick township, Cambria County, and engaged in shookmaking for four years. While there he became converted, under the preaching of Rev. J. W. Evans, a Baptist minister who preached at Bethel Church, and was baptized by him when eighteen years old. Meantime returning home he remained on the homestead with his father while his five brothers were serving their country in the Civil war. Wishing to become a minister of the gospel, he attended Reed's Institute at Reedsburg, Clarion County, taking a preparatory course of three years, and was licensed to preach in 1870, delivering his first sermon in the Williamsburg schoolhouse, two miles from the institute. He was ordained Oct. 14, 1874, at the old Pine Creek Church, in the Clarion Association, by Rev. Aaron Neff, moderator, and Rev. W. S. Bowser, clerk of the council, with laying on of hands by seven other ministers. For the next five years he was pastor of the Pine Creek Church, where he built a house of worship, during that time also preaching two years at the Franklin Union Church and two years at the Red Bank Church, of the Clarion Association. For one year following he was preacher at the West Lebanon Baptist Church, and from there went to the Fairview Church and the Shiloh Church, in the Indiana Association, preaching at the former for six years and at the latter four years. From there he transferred to the Twolick Church, where he remained five years, at the end of that period going to the Baptist Church at Spencerville, Allen County, Ohio, in the Auglaize Association, serving there one year and the Mount Zion Church for six months. He next preached six months at Ada, Ohio, returning to Pennsylvania at the end of that time because of the ill health of his wife and child, taking the pastorate of the Old Union Baptist Church, south of Kittanning, Armstrong County, for one year. That was in the Clarion Association. From there he went to Leechburg, same county, for two years, thence back to the Twolick Church (where he had formerly served five years) for seven years, during the latter part of that period also serving as pastor of the Baptist Churches at Blairsville and East Mahoning-two years at each place. Then he resigned to become pastor of the Sugar Creek Church in the Monongahela Association, being there one year and subsequently at Monongahela Union four years. While there he organized the Baptist Church at Mount Morris and was pastor of the Zora Church one year in Monongalia County, West Virginia, and also built an out station. Resigning from that charge he returned to the bounds of the Indiana Association, where he lived five years. Then he became pastor of the Mount Zion Church in Butler, Pennsylvania, for three years, having an assistant there. Returning to Indiana County, he then made his home on a small farm in South Mahoning township, east of Plumville. After settling there he served the Twolick Church for about four years, and also supplied at the West Mahoning and Crooked Creek Churches, and Ambrose Baptist Church.
He was a stanch advocate of temperance, and taught its principles wherever and whenever possible. In political sentiment he was a Republican.

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General Notes: Wife - Nannie A. Hull

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from Armstrong Co, PA

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 477, 499.

2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 845.

3 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 441.

4 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 477.

5 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 844.

6 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 499.

7 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 847.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 847.