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Ewing, Finis, was born in Bedford county. Virginia. June to. 1773, died in Lexington, Missouri, July 4, 1841.
He was of Scotch Irish descent and both of his parents were noted for piety. His early education was neglected,
but it is said that he studied for a time in college. After the death of his parents he moved to Nashville, Tennessee.
and in 1823 married a daughter of William Davidson, a revolutionary general. Soon afterward he went to Logan county,
Kentucky. where he was licensed to preach, and in 1803 was ordained by the Cumberland presbytery. He met with remarkable
success as a revivalist, but his ordination was not recognized by the Kentucky synod, and the presbytery being
dissolved, and the action of the synod having been sustained by the general assembly, he, with two others, organized
in 1810 the new Cumberland Presbyterian church, which now numbers about two thousand congregations. In doctrine
they occupy a middle ground between Calvinism and Arminianism. A few years after originating the new denomination
Mr. King removed to Todd county, Kentucky. and became pastor of the Lebanon congregation. near Kingsville. In 1820
he proceeded to Missouri, settled in what is now Cooper county, and organized a congregation at New Lebanon, which
still flourishes. In 1836 he removed to Lexington, Fayette county, where he preached till his death. He is the
author of "Lectures on Divinity," which contains the germ of the peculiarities of the creed of the Cumberland
Presbyterians.
FROM:
Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography
Volume II
By: Lyon Gardiner Tyler, LL. D.
Lewis Historical Publishing Company
New York 1915
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