OBIT: David X. JUNKIN, 1880, formerly of Blair County, PA

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Death of Rev. David Junkin.

  David X. Junkin, D.D., formerly of Hollidaysburg, where he was pastor 
of the Presbyterian Church for seven years, died at the home of his son 
Martinsburg, Va., on Friday.  Deceased was born at Hope Mills, Pa., and 
graduated at Jefferson College in 1831.  He studied theology at 
Princeton, and was pastor of the Greenwich Presbyterian Church, Warren 
county, New Jersey, from 1834 until 1851.  From 1851 to 1853 he was 
pastor of the F Street Church, Washington, D.C., and pastor at 
Hollidaysburg from 1853 to 1860.  He served as chaplain at the United 
States Naval Academy from 1860 to 1862, and the two following years as 
chaplain on board the frigate Colorado.  He was pastor of a 
Presbyterian Church in Chicago from 1864 to 1866, and from 1866 has 
been pastor at New Castle, Pa., a position he quitted only at death.  
Dr. Junkin was a polished and versatile writer, and has written some 
beautiful hymns.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Monday, April 26, 1880