Rev Henry Isaac Venable

Rev Henry Isaac Venable

Born: 28 June 1811

@ Shelby County, Ky

Died: 22 May 1878

1830:

Graduated Centre College

1834:

Graduated Union Theological Seminary, Va

Licensed at West Hanover Presbytery

Missionary to Zulu Land, South Africa

Mar 1839:

Driven away by war in South Africa, he returned to the United States where he began to serve churches in our area.

1 Oct 1839- 1 Dec 1841:

supplied the Paris Church

(Later began the Edgar Female Academy)

1853-1856:

supplied the Charleston church

1 Apr 1856- 1 May 1860:

supplied the Oakland church 

1860-1865:

became the minister of the Oakland church

*( and somewhere in this time frame, be began the Venable Academy)

after 1865:

he served the following churches in Illinois

Newton, Carlisle, Claiborn and York

1870:

 became the principal of the Edgar Collegiate Institute in Paris, Il and continued there until shortly before his death.

Source: 

Encyclopædia of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America