Gwinnett-Jackson County GaArchives Biographies.....Rainey, Hiram N. unknown - living in 1911
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Author: J. C. Flanigan
Rev. H. N. Rainey.

	Rev. Hiram N. Rainey was born in Jackson county. His father, Erwin 
Rainey, was a farmer and descended from the Tennessee branch of the Rainey 
family. His mother was Emily Pendergrass, a sister of Nixon Pendergrass, a 
distinguished lawyer and jurist of San Francisco, and also the sister of 
Nathaniel Pendergrass, a pioneer of Jackson county, whose descendants are 
among the leading and most influential citizens of that section.

	The only educational advantages enjoyed by Mr. Rainey were those 
furnished by the country school at Rockwell. At the age of seventeen, he 
enlisted in the Confederate army and saw service mainly with Longstreet's 
corps in Virginia and Tennessee until the surrender. Returning home in May, 
1865, he began life with few advantages. He was engaged in teaching school for 
several years or until 1872. In the meantime, he had felt the call to the 
ministry, and was accordingly ordained in 1867 a minister in the Baptist 
church. From that day to this he has never been without a pastorate and has 
served many churches in Gwinnett, Jackson and Walton counties. For thirty 
years and more, he has been the pastor of Hebron. He- is moderator of the 
Mulberry Association

	He is a tower of strength and a power for good throughout this 
section, but in his fostering friendship for the cause of education he has 
possibly been of the greatest material benefit to the largest number of 
people. Having personally experienced the limitations of the common country 
school, and having only attained his own education by personal effort, he 
possessed a keen appreciation of the advantages of a high school furnished to 
a community and so working through the church organization, he, in 1892, 
secured the approval of the Mulberry Association of the proposition to 
establish a high school within the boundary of the association. The erection 
of the Mulberry High School at Auburn followed. Later the school was enlarged 
and its name changed to Perry Rainey Institute. Mr. Rainey has given much of 
his time and means in building up the institution, and it is confidently 
believed that he will endow it ultimately and otherwise extend its power for 
good.

	For more than forty years he has served his people as preacher and 
pastor, sharing their joys and offering them consolation when sorrow's shadow 
darkened their homes. His business career has been separate and distinct but 
in no wise interfering with his consecrated labors in his master's vineyard. 
His material prosperity has been gratifying and his private fortune is 
estimated at half a million dollars.


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From:

GWINNETT CHURCHES
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF EVERY CHURCH
IN GWINNETT COUNTY, GEORGIA,
WITH SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF ITS
MINISTERS
BY
J. C. FLANIGAN
1911

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