The Rev. William M. Tryon - (March 10, 1809 - November 16, 1847) William Milton Tryon of New York City lost his father at the age of 9. At 17, young William was baptized. He and his mother moved to Georgia in 1832 where William was licensed to preach. He attended the Mercer Institute and was ordained as a minister in 1836. Tryon was pastor of five churches in Alabama and married Louisa Higgins in 1840. In 1841 the Rev. Mr. Tryon volunteered to go to Texas for the American Baptist Home Mission Society. Tryon became a circuit rider in southeast Texas, reviving the church at Washington-on-the-Brazos. He was instrumental in Texas Baptist affairs, beginning the first of five terms as moderator of the Union Baptist Association in Texas. He suggested the formation of the Texas Baptist Education Society and, with Robert E. B. Baylor, drafted the charter for a Texas Baptist college. Tryon served as chaplain of the Texas Senate from 1843-1845, and became the first president of the Baylor University Board of Trustees in 1845. On July 21, 1845, Tryon became the second missionary pastor of the First Baptist Church of Houston and was soon its first resident pastor. The membership, which had no church building, numbered only twelve. Tryon raised the money to erect a brick edifice on donated land at the corner of Travis Street and Texas Avenue. The completed structure was dedicated in May 1847. By the end of the summer sixty-nine new members had joined the congregation. William M. Tryon died of yellow fever in November 1847. He was interred in the churchyard. Years later, when the property was sold, his remains were transferred to Glenwood Cemetery. (1998) Incise on back: Project Sponsored by the New Covenant Department, First Baptist Church
TRYON, Rev. W. M.
Rev. W. M. Tryon, the pioneer Baptist minister and leader in the organization of the first "Education Society" organized under the auspices of the Baptist Church of Texas, was born in the city of New York, March 10, 1809. Losing his father when he was only nine years of age, his boyhood and youth were carefully watched over by a pious Christian mother. Part of his early life was spent in Connecticut, but at the age of nineteen he moved to Savannah, Georgia. Having received a through collegiate education at Mercer University, at Penfield, Georgia, he was ordained in 1837 by Elder Jesse Mercer and others. He served as pastor at Eufaula and Wetumpka, Alabama, until January, 1841, at which time he came to Texas under an appointment as missionary of the Triennial Convention.
He first settled in Washington county, between the towns of Independence and Washington, and devoted all his powers to ministry and to works of Christian endeavor.
During the term of the Congress of the Republic that was held in the old town of Washington, in 1843 and 1844, he served the body as chaplain by consent of his churches when the financial condition of the country was such that no remuneration was expected for his services.
In the winter of 1846 he moved to Houston and took the pastoral oversight of the little church in this city, and here performed the last and crowning work of his life. The Baptists of this place then were few in number and without a house of worship, but under the fervor of his ministry the small congregation increased to a large number and the little church soon contained almost a hundred communicants. The church, under his ministry, put forth an organized activity, and in a short time erected a very creditable building, since succeeded by the present handsome edifice.
The influences for good wielded by a man like the Rev. Mr. Tryon in the formative era of a State like Texas can hardly be estimated. He was well equipped for his work and entered into the spirit of it zeal and understanding. He was a man for any field. As pastor few excelled him, as missionary he gathered all classes, from the poor to the rich, and from the most illiterate to the most refined and cultivated about him; and when he espoused the cause of education he was master of the field and moved the Baptists of Union Association to rally around the infant institutions at Independence and labor industriously to provide means for the education of the rising ministry of Texas. As an orator he had few, if any, equals in Texas. He was well-versed in the history and principles of the church, and when his powers were brought to bear on this and kindred subjects the charge of bigotry and ignorance so often brought in an earlier day against the Baptists was hurled to the ground.
His career of usefulness in Texas was short. The last time the denomination was permitted to sit with him in council was at the session of Union Association held with the Houston Church, in October, 1847. At that meeting he was elected and served as moderator. There were a few cases of yellow fever in the city at that time. After the adjournment of that body and the fever was declared epidemic, he preferred to remain among the people whom he served and who loved him, notwithstanding the dangers that surrounded. On the 16th day of November, 1847, he died, after much suffering, from a violent attack of yellow fever. His remains were deposited near the church edifice that he had labored so hard to erect. His loss was deeply felt by the church at Houston and sincerely mourned by all who knew him, He is still pleasantly remembered by many old citizens of this city and locality, and every student that has been educated in Baylor University owes him a debt of gratitude.
William A. Tryon, son of the foregoing, was born at Longpoint, Washington county, Texas, September 14, 1842, and was reared mainly in the city of Houston. His education was obtained in the schools of this city and Osnabruck, Hanover, Germany. He read medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, under Dr. Thomas Buchanan, and attended lectures in the University of Nashville. He began the practice of his profession in Houston at the age of twenty-one,and has since been engaged in professional and business pursuits in this city. He married Miss Alice Cushman, of Houston, and by this union has five children: Leona, John I., Carrie, Joseph, and Armistead.
Joseph M., the only other son of Rev. W. M. Tryon, died a few years ago in Houston; and Ella, the only daughter, wife of William Clark, died about the same date, in Austin. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
Contributor: Sherry (47010546)
TRYON, Rev. W. M.
Rev. W. M. Tryon, the pioneer Baptist minister and leader in the organization of the first "Education Society" organized under the auspices of the Baptist Church of Texas, was born in the city of New York, March 10, 1809. Losing his father when he was only nine years of age, his boyhood and youth were carefully watched over by a pious Christian mother. Part of his early life was spent in Connecticut, but at the age of nineteen he moved to Savannah, Georgia. Having received a through collegiate education at Mercer University, at Penfield, Georgia, he was ordained in 1837 by Elder Jesse Mercer and others. He served as pastor at Eufaula and Wetumpka, Alabama, until January, 1841, at which time he came to Texas under an appointment as missionary of the Triennial Convention.
He first settled in Washington county, between the towns of Independence and Washington, and devoted all his powers to ministry and to works of Christian endeavor.
During the term of the Congress of the Republic that was held in the old town of Washington, in 1843 and 1844, he served the body as chaplain by consent of his churches when the financial condition of the country was such that no remuneration was expected for his services.
In the winter of 1846 he moved to Houston and took the pastoral oversight of the little church in this city, and here performed the last and crowning work of his life. The Baptists of this place then were few in number and without a house of worship, but under the fervor of his ministry the small congregation increased to a large number and the little church soon contained almost a hundred communicants. The church, under his ministry, put forth an organized activity, and in a short time erected a very creditable building, since succeeded by the present handsome edifice.
The influences for good wielded by a man like the Rev. Mr. Tryon in the formative era of a State like Texas can hardly be estimated. He was well equipped for his work and entered into the spirit of it zeal and understanding. He was a man for any field. As pastor few excelled him, as missionary he gathered all classes, from the poor to the rich, and from the most illiterate to the most refined and cultivated about him; and when he espoused the cause of education he was master of the field and moved the Baptists of Union Association to rally around the infant institutions at Independence and labor industriously to provide means for the education of the rising ministry of Texas. As an orator he had few, if any, equals in Texas. He was well-versed in the history and principles of the church, and when his powers were brought to bear on this and kindred subjects the charge of bigotry and ignorance so often brought in an earlier day against the Baptists was hurled to the ground.
His career of usefulness in Texas was short. The last time the denomination was permitted to sit with him in council was at the session of Union Association held with the Houston Church, in October, 1847. At that meeting he was elected and served as moderator. There were a few cases of yellow fever in the city at that time. After the adjournment of that body and the fever was declared epidemic, he preferred to remain among the people whom he served and who loved him, notwithstanding the dangers that surrounded. On the 16th day of November, 1847, he died, after much suffering, from a violent attack of yellow fever. His remains were deposited near the church edifice that he had labored so hard to erect. His loss was deeply felt by the church at Houston and sincerely mourned by all who knew him, He is still pleasantly remembered by many old citizens of this city and locality, and every student that has been educated in Baylor University owes him a debt of gratitude.
William A. Tryon, son of the foregoing, was born at Longpoint, Washington county, Texas, September 14, 1842, and was reared mainly in the city of Houston. His education was obtained in the schools of this city and Osnabruck, Hanover, Germany. He read medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, under Dr. Thomas Buchanan, and attended lectures in the University of Nashville. He began the practice of his profession in Houston at the age of twenty-one,and has since been engaged in professional and business pursuits in this city. He married Miss Alice Cushman, of Houston, and by this union has five children: Leona, John I., Carrie, Joseph, and Armistead.
Joseph M., the only other son of Rev. W. M. Tryon, died a few years ago in Houston; and Ella, the only daughter, wife of William Clark, died about the same date, in Austin. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
Contributor: Sherry (47010546)
The Rev. William M. Tryon - (March 10, 1809 - November 16, 1847) William Milton Tryon of New York City lost his father at the age of 9. At 17, young William was baptized. He and his mother moved to Georgia in 1832 where William was licensed to preach. He attended the Mercer Institute and was ordained as a minister in 1836. Tryon was pastor of five churches in Alabama and married Louisa Higgins in 1840. In 1841 the Rev. Mr. Tryon volunteered to go to Texas for the American Baptist Home Mission Society. Tryon became a circuit rider in southeast Texas, reviving the church at Washington-on-the-Brazos. He was instrumental in Texas Baptist affairs, beginning the first of five terms as moderator of the Union Baptist Association in Texas. He suggested the formation of the Texas Baptist Education Society and, with Robert E. B. Baylor, drafted the charter for a Texas Baptist college. Tryon served as chaplain of the Texas Senate from 1843-1845, and became the first president of the Baylor University Board of Trustees in 1845. On July 21, 1845, Tryon became the second missionary pastor of the First Baptist Church of Houston and was soon its first resident pastor. The membership, which had no church building, numbered only twelve. Tryon raised the money to erect a brick edifice on donated land at the corner of Travis Street and Texas Avenue. The completed structure was dedicated in May 1847. By the end of the summer sixty-nine new members had joined the congregation. William M. Tryon died of yellow fever in November 1847. He was interred in the churchyard. Years later, when the property was sold, his remains were transferred to Glenwood Cemetery. (1998) Incise on back: Project Sponsored by the New Covenant Department, First Baptist Church
TRYON, Rev. W. M.
Rev. W. M. Tryon, the pioneer Baptist minister and leader in the organization of the first "Education Society" organized under the auspices of the Baptist Church of Texas, was born in the city of New York, March 10, 1809. Losing his father when he was only nine years of age, his boyhood and youth were carefully watched over by a pious Christian mother. Part of his early life was spent in Connecticut, but at the age of nineteen he moved to Savannah, Georgia. Having received a through collegiate education at Mercer University, at Penfield, Georgia, he was ordained in 1837 by Elder Jesse Mercer and others. He served as pastor at Eufaula and Wetumpka, Alabama, until January, 1841, at which time he came to Texas under an appointment as missionary of the Triennial Convention.
He first settled in Washington county, between the towns of Independence and Washington, and devoted all his powers to ministry and to works of Christian endeavor.
During the term of the Congress of the Republic that was held in the old town of Washington, in 1843 and 1844, he served the body as chaplain by consent of his churches when the financial condition of the country was such that no remuneration was expected for his services.
In the winter of 1846 he moved to Houston and took the pastoral oversight of the little church in this city, and here performed the last and crowning work of his life. The Baptists of this place then were few in number and without a house of worship, but under the fervor of his ministry the small congregation increased to a large number and the little church soon contained almost a hundred communicants. The church, under his ministry, put forth an organized activity, and in a short time erected a very creditable building, since succeeded by the present handsome edifice.
The influences for good wielded by a man like the Rev. Mr. Tryon in the formative era of a State like Texas can hardly be estimated. He was well equipped for his work and entered into the spirit of it zeal and understanding. He was a man for any field. As pastor few excelled him, as missionary he gathered all classes, from the poor to the rich, and from the most illiterate to the most refined and cultivated about him; and when he espoused the cause of education he was master of the field and moved the Baptists of Union Association to rally around the infant institutions at Independence and labor industriously to provide means for the education of the rising ministry of Texas. As an orator he had few, if any, equals in Texas. He was well-versed in the history and principles of the church, and when his powers were brought to bear on this and kindred subjects the charge of bigotry and ignorance so often brought in an earlier day against the Baptists was hurled to the ground.
His career of usefulness in Texas was short. The last time the denomination was permitted to sit with him in council was at the session of Union Association held with the Houston Church, in October, 1847. At that meeting he was elected and served as moderator. There were a few cases of yellow fever in the city at that time. After the adjournment of that body and the fever was declared epidemic, he preferred to remain among the people whom he served and who loved him, notwithstanding the dangers that surrounded. On the 16th day of November, 1847, he died, after much suffering, from a violent attack of yellow fever. His remains were deposited near the church edifice that he had labored so hard to erect. His loss was deeply felt by the church at Houston and sincerely mourned by all who knew him, He is still pleasantly remembered by many old citizens of this city and locality, and every student that has been educated in Baylor University owes him a debt of gratitude.
William A. Tryon, son of the foregoing, was born at Longpoint, Washington county, Texas, September 14, 1842, and was reared mainly in the city of Houston. His education was obtained in the schools of this city and Osnabruck, Hanover, Germany. He read medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, under Dr. Thomas Buchanan, and attended lectures in the University of Nashville. He began the practice of his profession in Houston at the age of twenty-one,and has since been engaged in professional and business pursuits in this city. He married Miss Alice Cushman, of Houston, and by this union has five children: Leona, John I., Carrie, Joseph, and Armistead.
Joseph M., the only other son of Rev. W. M. Tryon, died a few years ago in Houston; and Ella, the only daughter, wife of William Clark, died about the same date, in Austin. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
Contributor: Sherry (47010546)
TRYON, Rev. W. M.
Rev. W. M. Tryon, the pioneer Baptist minister and leader in the organization of the first "Education Society" organized under the auspices of the Baptist Church of Texas, was born in the city of New York, March 10, 1809. Losing his father when he was only nine years of age, his boyhood and youth were carefully watched over by a pious Christian mother. Part of his early life was spent in Connecticut, but at the age of nineteen he moved to Savannah, Georgia. Having received a through collegiate education at Mercer University, at Penfield, Georgia, he was ordained in 1837 by Elder Jesse Mercer and others. He served as pastor at Eufaula and Wetumpka, Alabama, until January, 1841, at which time he came to Texas under an appointment as missionary of the Triennial Convention.
He first settled in Washington county, between the towns of Independence and Washington, and devoted all his powers to ministry and to works of Christian endeavor.
During the term of the Congress of the Republic that was held in the old town of Washington, in 1843 and 1844, he served the body as chaplain by consent of his churches when the financial condition of the country was such that no remuneration was expected for his services.
In the winter of 1846 he moved to Houston and took the pastoral oversight of the little church in this city, and here performed the last and crowning work of his life. The Baptists of this place then were few in number and without a house of worship, but under the fervor of his ministry the small congregation increased to a large number and the little church soon contained almost a hundred communicants. The church, under his ministry, put forth an organized activity, and in a short time erected a very creditable building, since succeeded by the present handsome edifice.
The influences for good wielded by a man like the Rev. Mr. Tryon in the formative era of a State like Texas can hardly be estimated. He was well equipped for his work and entered into the spirit of it zeal and understanding. He was a man for any field. As pastor few excelled him, as missionary he gathered all classes, from the poor to the rich, and from the most illiterate to the most refined and cultivated about him; and when he espoused the cause of education he was master of the field and moved the Baptists of Union Association to rally around the infant institutions at Independence and labor industriously to provide means for the education of the rising ministry of Texas. As an orator he had few, if any, equals in Texas. He was well-versed in the history and principles of the church, and when his powers were brought to bear on this and kindred subjects the charge of bigotry and ignorance so often brought in an earlier day against the Baptists was hurled to the ground.
His career of usefulness in Texas was short. The last time the denomination was permitted to sit with him in council was at the session of Union Association held with the Houston Church, in October, 1847. At that meeting he was elected and served as moderator. There were a few cases of yellow fever in the city at that time. After the adjournment of that body and the fever was declared epidemic, he preferred to remain among the people whom he served and who loved him, notwithstanding the dangers that surrounded. On the 16th day of November, 1847, he died, after much suffering, from a violent attack of yellow fever. His remains were deposited near the church edifice that he had labored so hard to erect. His loss was deeply felt by the church at Houston and sincerely mourned by all who knew him, He is still pleasantly remembered by many old citizens of this city and locality, and every student that has been educated in Baylor University owes him a debt of gratitude.
William A. Tryon, son of the foregoing, was born at Longpoint, Washington county, Texas, September 14, 1842, and was reared mainly in the city of Houston. His education was obtained in the schools of this city and Osnabruck, Hanover, Germany. He read medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, under Dr. Thomas Buchanan, and attended lectures in the University of Nashville. He began the practice of his profession in Houston at the age of twenty-one,and has since been engaged in professional and business pursuits in this city. He married Miss Alice Cushman, of Houston, and by this union has five children: Leona, John I., Carrie, Joseph, and Armistead.
Joseph M., the only other son of Rev. W. M. Tryon, died a few years ago in Houston; and Ella, the only daughter, wife of William Clark, died about the same date, in Austin. (Source: History of Texas Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston (1895)
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