Fayette County KyArchives Biographies.....McChord, James 1785 - u1820 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandi Gorin http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000404 December 17, 2004, 6:27 am Author: The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky, J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878 Rev. James McChord, Clergyman, was born in 1785, in Baltimore, Maryland, and, at the age of five, was brought to Lexington, Kentucky. He received a fine education, and read law with Henry Clay; subsequently devoted himself to the ministry; became first pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, of Lexington, in 1815; removed to Paris, in 1819, and died the following year. He was a man of splendid qualities, and a brilliant preacher. He was a fine writer, many of his works being published, among which were two volumes of sermons. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/fayette/bios/gbs123mcchord.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/