Rev. David Luther Lander wrote "History of the Lander Family of Virginia and Kentucky", published 1926.
DAVID LANDER, born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, July 23, 1852. Both of my parents died when I was 9 and a half years old. The next six years of my life were spent in the home of my Uncle FRANK LANDER. He allowed me a loose rein and I soon became a veritable tough. The community afforded poor facilities for getting an education, so when I was 15 years old I left Uncle FRANK and went to Flemingsburg and there fitted myself for Center College in the school taught by Rev. JAMES P. HENDRICK. I was partly converted about that time, joined the Presbyterian Church and became a candidate for the gospel ministry.
My health failed completely while at college, and the next thing I knew I was principal of the public schools in Neosho, Missouri. I joined the church, became superintendent of the Sabbath school, janitor of the church, sung in the choir and conducted the prayer meetings when they had no pastor. For awhile I taught among the Cherokee Indians down in the "Territory" - Going Snake district. While there I organized a Sabbath school, which was largely attended. I also talked to the people and they called it preaching.
During Christmas I visited Neosho. They were without a pastor at that time and invited me to talk to them on the Sabbath. I did so on two Sabbaths and went back to my Indian school. Pretty soon the church at Neosho invited me to become their pastor, and brethren of Ozark Presbytery urged me to accept the call and invited me to meet with the Presbytery. I accepted the call and at Springfield, Missouri, April 28, 1875, I was licensed to preach the gospel. Six months later I was regularly ordained and, notwithstanding the serious handicap of ill health and scant qualifications, my friends say I have been a first-class third-rate preacher.
In forty-eight years I served twenty-two churches. Because I have always written a legible hand I have been stated clerk of five different Presbyteries. I suspect that no Presbyterian minister in the world has a better record in that respect. I retired from the active work of the ministry in 1922.
I married Miss ELLA ALLIN, daughter of Rev. THOMAS H. ALLIN, November 1, 1877. [HLFKV]
Obituary: LANDER, ---Rev. DAVID LANDER died December 23, 1926, aged 74 years and 5 months. He was born in Kentucky and at the age of nine lost both of his parents, but graduated with honors from Centre College before he was 22. He taught school in Neosho, Missouri, and was supplied the Presbyterian church there, being licensed in 1875, and ordained the following autumn at Springfield, Missouri. He served in the active ministry for almost 50 years, serving as clerk of six different presbyteries, retiring from the position in Southwest Florida presbytery only last April because of failing health. He was married to Miss. ELLA ALLEN, daughter of Rev. THOMAS H. ALLEN. Two sons surviving with their mother, JOSEPH and HENRY and three grandchildren. The funeral was conducted at Kissimmee, Florida by J. F. SHEPHERD, D.D., assisted by Rev. REA W. MARTIN of Orlando and Rev. L. A. WERLEY of Kissimmee.
DAVID LANDER, born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, July 23, 1852. Both of my parents died when I was 9 and a half years old. The next six years of my life were spent in the home of my Uncle FRANK LANDER. He allowed me a loose rein and I soon became a veritable tough. The community afforded poor facilities for getting an education, so when I was 15 years old I left Uncle FRANK and went to Flemingsburg and there fitted myself for Center College in the school taught by Rev. JAMES P. HENDRICK. I was partly converted about that time, joined the Presbyterian Church and became a candidate for the gospel ministry.
My health failed completely while at college, and the next thing I knew I was principal of the public schools in Neosho, Missouri. I joined the church, became superintendent of the Sabbath school, janitor of the church, sung in the choir and conducted the prayer meetings when they had no pastor. For awhile I taught among the Cherokee Indians down in the "Territory" - Going Snake district. While there I organized a Sabbath school, which was largely attended. I also talked to the people and they called it preaching.
During Christmas I visited Neosho. They were without a pastor at that time and invited me to talk to them on the Sabbath. I did so on two Sabbaths and went back to my Indian school. Pretty soon the church at Neosho invited me to become their pastor, and brethren of Ozark Presbytery urged me to accept the call and invited me to meet with the Presbytery. I accepted the call and at Springfield, Missouri, April 28, 1875, I was licensed to preach the gospel. Six months later I was regularly ordained and, notwithstanding the serious handicap of ill health and scant qualifications, my friends say I have been a first-class third-rate preacher.
In forty-eight years I served twenty-two churches. Because I have always written a legible hand I have been stated clerk of five different Presbyteries. I suspect that no Presbyterian minister in the world has a better record in that respect. I retired from the active work of the ministry in 1922.
I married Miss ELLA ALLIN, daughter of Rev. THOMAS H. ALLIN, November 1, 1877. [HLFKV]
Obituary: LANDER, ---Rev. DAVID LANDER died December 23, 1926, aged 74 years and 5 months. He was born in Kentucky and at the age of nine lost both of his parents, but graduated with honors from Centre College before he was 22. He taught school in Neosho, Missouri, and was supplied the Presbyterian church there, being licensed in 1875, and ordained the following autumn at Springfield, Missouri. He served in the active ministry for almost 50 years, serving as clerk of six different presbyteries, retiring from the position in Southwest Florida presbytery only last April because of failing health. He was married to Miss. ELLA ALLEN, daughter of Rev. THOMAS H. ALLEN. Two sons surviving with their mother, JOSEPH and HENRY and three grandchildren. The funeral was conducted at Kissimmee, Florida by J. F. SHEPHERD, D.D., assisted by Rev. REA W. MARTIN of Orlando and Rev. L. A. WERLEY of Kissimmee.
Rev. David Luther Lander wrote "History of the Lander Family of Virginia and Kentucky", published 1926.
DAVID LANDER, born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, July 23, 1852. Both of my parents died when I was 9 and a half years old. The next six years of my life were spent in the home of my Uncle FRANK LANDER. He allowed me a loose rein and I soon became a veritable tough. The community afforded poor facilities for getting an education, so when I was 15 years old I left Uncle FRANK and went to Flemingsburg and there fitted myself for Center College in the school taught by Rev. JAMES P. HENDRICK. I was partly converted about that time, joined the Presbyterian Church and became a candidate for the gospel ministry.
My health failed completely while at college, and the next thing I knew I was principal of the public schools in Neosho, Missouri. I joined the church, became superintendent of the Sabbath school, janitor of the church, sung in the choir and conducted the prayer meetings when they had no pastor. For awhile I taught among the Cherokee Indians down in the "Territory" - Going Snake district. While there I organized a Sabbath school, which was largely attended. I also talked to the people and they called it preaching.
During Christmas I visited Neosho. They were without a pastor at that time and invited me to talk to them on the Sabbath. I did so on two Sabbaths and went back to my Indian school. Pretty soon the church at Neosho invited me to become their pastor, and brethren of Ozark Presbytery urged me to accept the call and invited me to meet with the Presbytery. I accepted the call and at Springfield, Missouri, April 28, 1875, I was licensed to preach the gospel. Six months later I was regularly ordained and, notwithstanding the serious handicap of ill health and scant qualifications, my friends say I have been a first-class third-rate preacher.
In forty-eight years I served twenty-two churches. Because I have always written a legible hand I have been stated clerk of five different Presbyteries. I suspect that no Presbyterian minister in the world has a better record in that respect. I retired from the active work of the ministry in 1922.
I married Miss ELLA ALLIN, daughter of Rev. THOMAS H. ALLIN, November 1, 1877. [HLFKV]
Obituary: LANDER, ---Rev. DAVID LANDER died December 23, 1926, aged 74 years and 5 months. He was born in Kentucky and at the age of nine lost both of his parents, but graduated with honors from Centre College before he was 22. He taught school in Neosho, Missouri, and was supplied the Presbyterian church there, being licensed in 1875, and ordained the following autumn at Springfield, Missouri. He served in the active ministry for almost 50 years, serving as clerk of six different presbyteries, retiring from the position in Southwest Florida presbytery only last April because of failing health. He was married to Miss. ELLA ALLEN, daughter of Rev. THOMAS H. ALLEN. Two sons surviving with their mother, JOSEPH and HENRY and three grandchildren. The funeral was conducted at Kissimmee, Florida by J. F. SHEPHERD, D.D., assisted by Rev. REA W. MARTIN of Orlando and Rev. L. A. WERLEY of Kissimmee.
DAVID LANDER, born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, July 23, 1852. Both of my parents died when I was 9 and a half years old. The next six years of my life were spent in the home of my Uncle FRANK LANDER. He allowed me a loose rein and I soon became a veritable tough. The community afforded poor facilities for getting an education, so when I was 15 years old I left Uncle FRANK and went to Flemingsburg and there fitted myself for Center College in the school taught by Rev. JAMES P. HENDRICK. I was partly converted about that time, joined the Presbyterian Church and became a candidate for the gospel ministry.
My health failed completely while at college, and the next thing I knew I was principal of the public schools in Neosho, Missouri. I joined the church, became superintendent of the Sabbath school, janitor of the church, sung in the choir and conducted the prayer meetings when they had no pastor. For awhile I taught among the Cherokee Indians down in the "Territory" - Going Snake district. While there I organized a Sabbath school, which was largely attended. I also talked to the people and they called it preaching.
During Christmas I visited Neosho. They were without a pastor at that time and invited me to talk to them on the Sabbath. I did so on two Sabbaths and went back to my Indian school. Pretty soon the church at Neosho invited me to become their pastor, and brethren of Ozark Presbytery urged me to accept the call and invited me to meet with the Presbytery. I accepted the call and at Springfield, Missouri, April 28, 1875, I was licensed to preach the gospel. Six months later I was regularly ordained and, notwithstanding the serious handicap of ill health and scant qualifications, my friends say I have been a first-class third-rate preacher.
In forty-eight years I served twenty-two churches. Because I have always written a legible hand I have been stated clerk of five different Presbyteries. I suspect that no Presbyterian minister in the world has a better record in that respect. I retired from the active work of the ministry in 1922.
I married Miss ELLA ALLIN, daughter of Rev. THOMAS H. ALLIN, November 1, 1877. [HLFKV]
Obituary: LANDER, ---Rev. DAVID LANDER died December 23, 1926, aged 74 years and 5 months. He was born in Kentucky and at the age of nine lost both of his parents, but graduated with honors from Centre College before he was 22. He taught school in Neosho, Missouri, and was supplied the Presbyterian church there, being licensed in 1875, and ordained the following autumn at Springfield, Missouri. He served in the active ministry for almost 50 years, serving as clerk of six different presbyteries, retiring from the position in Southwest Florida presbytery only last April because of failing health. He was married to Miss. ELLA ALLEN, daughter of Rev. THOMAS H. ALLEN. Two sons surviving with their mother, JOSEPH and HENRY and three grandchildren. The funeral was conducted at Kissimmee, Florida by J. F. SHEPHERD, D.D., assisted by Rev. REA W. MARTIN of Orlando and Rev. L. A. WERLEY of Kissimmee.
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