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J. S. Dill
J. S. Dill was a prominent figure in late nineteenth-century American Baptist ecclesiastical circles, serving as a key collaborator and associate of Isaac Taylor Tichenor during the formative years of the Home Mission Board's expansion. His contributions to Tichenor's missionary enterprise reflected the broader theological currents of post-Reconstruction Southern Baptist thought, particularly the denomination's evolving approach to domestic evangelism and institutional development. Dill's work exemplified the administrative and theological commitments that shaped the Home Mission movement's consolidation of denominational authority in the early twentieth century.
From Isaac Taylor Tichenor, the Home Mission Statesman
p. 3 mF in this democratic country genealogical tables count for anything, then the name of Isaac Taylor Tichenor is an honorable one. jMartin Tichenor, who tradition tells us was of French extraction, was among the earliest settlers of New England. The record shows that in 1644 he took the oath of allegiance at New Haven, Connecticut, but soon, under the leadership of Robert Treat, helped to form the first settlement at Newark, New Jersey. Now it happened that Ebenezer Byram, scion of a worthy Connecticut family, had settled in Morris County, New Jersey, and that his son, Ebenezer, took in marriage Abagail Alden, fifth generation from John Alden and Priscilla, and to them were born sons and daughters. In the meantime, Joseph Tich- p. 4 10 ISAAC TAYLOR TICHENOR enor, grandson of jMartin Tichenor, had also settled in Morris County, and there was born unto him in 1742 a…
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