BIO: Joseph Alexander Ireland, Jefferson/Bullitt Co., KY

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A History of Kentucky Baptists From 1769 to 1885, Including More Than  800 Biographical 
Sketches, J. H. Spencer, Manuscript Revised and Corrected by Mrs. Burilla B. Spencer, In Two 
Volumes.  Printed For the Author.  1886.  Republished By Church History Research & Archives 
1976 Lafayette, Tennessee. Vol. 2, p 189.  [Jefferson County]

JOSEPH ALEXANDER IRELAND M.D. is among the oldest living preachers in this Association.  He 
was born in Jefferson county, Ky., Sept. 15, 1824.  After obtaining a good English 
education, with a fair knowledge of the Latin and Greek languages, he entered upon the study 
of medicine, in which he graduated, in 1851.  After practicing his profession in 
Louisville some three years, he moved to his farm in Bullitt county, in 1854.  Here he 
practiced medicine about ten years, when he was elected to a professorship in one of the 
medical schools in Louisville.  From 1864, to the present time, he has filled a chair in one 
or more medical schools.
	In his youth, Dr. Ireland professed Religion and united with Little Flock church in 
Bullitt county, where he was licensed to preach, in 1848.  He was soon afterward ordained, 
and, at different periods, was pastor of the churches at Little Flock, in Bullitt county, 
Jefferstown, in Jefferson county, and Jeffersonville, Indiana.  Besides his labors in 
the ministry, he has performed valuable service to the cause of Christ in connection with 
the missionary enterprises of his denomination.

Ireland
ullitt-KY IN