Rowan County NcArchives Obituaries.....McCorkle, Rev. Dr. Samuel 1811
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Raleigh Minerva
Thurs., Feb. 14, 1811
DIED, at Westfield, his seat, near Salisbury, on the morning of the 21st ult., 
the REV. DR. SAMUEL McCORKLE, in the 65th year of his age. He was a native of 
the United States, and graduated at Princeton College in the year 1774; at 
which place the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him twenty 
years afterwards. In the year 1775 he settled as Pastor in the Presbyterian 
Church of Thyatira, where he continued to officiate with great respectability 
and usefulness, until about five years ago, when a stroke of palsey deprived 
that congregation of his services. He was a Trustee of the University from the 
commencement of that institution; and about the year 1795, the Board, sensible 
of his worth, offered him the professorship of Moral and Political Philosophy, 
but the inconvenience of moving with a large family, and a reluctance to 
separate from his congregation to which he had so long been united induced him 
to decline acceptance of that appointment. As a minister of the gospel, he was 
pious, learned and exemplary.


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