Whiteside County IL Archives Biographies.....Fife, Rev N H G 
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Author: Portrait/Bio Album, Whiteside County IL 1885

Rev. N. H. G. Fife, for the past 12 years Pastor, of the Presbyterian Church 
of Sterling, was born in the village of Elizabeth, Allegheny Co., Pa., Feb. 
19, 1840: both his parents were natives of the same State. His father, Andrew 
Fife, was a farmer and attained age of 89 years. His mother, nee Sarah 
Robinson, died at the age of 84 years. Rev. Fife received his academic 
training at Elder's Ridge, Indiana Co., Pa., and entered the Junior class in 
Jefferson College in September, 1857, graduating when 19 years of age. After 
teaching one year at Middletown, Ky., he entered the Western Theological 
Seminary in Allegheny City, Pa., at which he graduated in April, 1863. 
Immediately afterward he was ordained to the work of the ministry by the 
Redstone Presbytery, and installed Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of 
Connellsville, Pa., which position he sustained five years. He then took 
charge of the Church at Long Run, in the same Presbytery, where he remained 
until November, 1873, when he came to Illinois and entered upon his present 
pastorate. (See the latter part of this volume for a sketch of the Church.) 
June 9, 1869, Mr. F. married Miss Mary E. Paull, of Connellsville, Pa. Three 
children have been born to them,—Eliza P., Charles A. and J. Paull. Mr. Fife 
is a Republican in his political views, and his long service in such an 
intelligent community as that of Sterling, with the continued approval of his 
Church, is sufficient evidence of his ability and faithfulness in the gospel 
ministry.

Additional Comments:
Portrait and Biographical Album of Whiteside County, Illinois, Containing Full-
page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens of the County. Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1885.

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