Cabarrus County, NC - Jethro Rumple

Jethro Rumple

RUMPLE, Jethro, clergyman, was born in Cabarrus county, N.C., March 10, 
1827. He was graduated from Davidson college in 1850, and studied at 
the Columbian Theological seminary, 1854–56. He was licensed by the 
Concord presbytery, July 31, 1854, was ordained in 1857, and was 
installed in Mecklenburg county, N.C. He was married, Oct. 13, 1857, to 
Jane E., daughter of Watson W. and Melinda Wharton of Greensboro, N.C. 
In 1861 he was called to Salisbury, N.C., where he was still pastor of 
the First Presbyterian church in 1903. He became trustee of Davidson 
college in 1858, and director and trustee of Union Theological seminary 
in Virginia, 1863; was elected a commissioner to several general 
assemblies, and to many important positions in the Synod and 
Presbytery. In 1882 he received the degree D.D. from the University of 
North Carolina. He is the author of: History of Rowan County, N.C. 
(1881), and History of First Fifty Years of Davidson College (1888).  
 
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