Licking-Belmont-Guernsey County OhArchives Biographies.....James Logan Gilbreath December 3 1820 - August 25 1880
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Doug Gilliland genealogy@dougstheology.org February 25, 2004, 11:12 am

Author: Doug Gilliland (ggg-grandson of JL Gilbreath)

Rev. James Logan Gilbreath - Biography from various sources

- 3 December 1820 - Born near Greensborough, Guilford County, North Carolina.
- His family was an abolitionist family. Like many other families in the 
south, they probably did not want to remain in the south with slaveholders
- December 1830 - Moved with his family to Belmont County, Ohio.
- Raised in Eastern Ohio. His father was a Methodist circuit preacher.
- Attended "Madison" United  Presbyterian College, in Antrim, Guernsey County, 
Ohio
- Joined Mt. Zion church, in Rev. W. G. Kile's  pastorate, Senecaville, 
Guernsey county, 0hio
- May 1848 Licensed to preach by the "East Ohio Synod" of the Lutheran Church
- 1 Aug 1850 Married by Rev. W. G. Kile to Luisa Ann Gray of Senecaville, 
Guernsey County, Ohio
- 1850-1853 Pastor Washington pastorate Guernsey Co
- 1851 Newark charge - Vanataville & Claylick & St. John's Churches
- 1852 May Ordained to the East Ohio Synod English Lutheran Church
- 1852 Pastor Guernsey and Noble County (Eastern Ohio Synod)
- 1853 Ohio (Daughter Lucy Angeline Gilbreath born in Ohio)
- 1852-1854 Millersburgh Guernsey & Noble Co. (E. Ohio)
- 1854 Pastor in Utica, Licking County, St Lewisberg & Claylick (Eastern Ohio 
Synod)
- 1854 - Utica - Licking Co. & St. Lewisburg & Claylick (E. Ohio)
- 1855 Utica Licking Co
- 1856 ALM (possibly "Association of Lutheran Ministers")
- 1860 Ohio, Licking County, Washington Twp. - 1860 census
- 1860-1870 St Johns Newark Only = (Claylick) (E. Ohio) Morrow County, North 
Woodbury, Perry Township
- 1870 US Census Ohio, Licking County, Newark, Second Ward of Newark City
- March 1872 J. L. Gilbreath requested certificate of honorable disadmission
- went to the Synod of Central Illinois (1872 East Ohio Convention annual 
Synod of Eastern Ohio)
- 1872-1874 Illinois, Fayette County, Wheatland - church records (Central 
Illinois Conference)
- 1874 Pastor in Urbana (Miami Synod)
- 1876 Newark. Ohio
- 1878 Circuit rider in Brandonville, Preston County, West Virginia
- 1879 - Urbana (Miami)
- 16 months of illness before his death from "kidney troubles"
- 1880 Ohio, Champaign County, Urbana - census
- 1880 returned to Newark, Ohio.
- 25 Aug 1880 died


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