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From: winter dellenbach <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] "They Planted a Tree in the Wilderness"
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:57:01 -0700
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Hello Gail - can you tell me if each person you list has a section in
the book, or is a person's story scattered throughout the book? If
section by section, could you tell me how many pages are given to John
Naas - if convenient? Thanks - winter dellenbach
On Oct 6, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Gail Longton wrote:

> Speaking of books....I just got a book that was my great-
> grandfather's,
> "Builders of the Church of the Brethren" by John S. Flory copy right
> 1925,
> Elgin Press.My great grandfather was Levi Abraham Bowman, a COB
> minister.
> This little book has life stories of several leaders of the COB:
> Alexander
> Mack, John Naas, Peter Becker, Christopher Sower, John Garber and
> Jacob
> Miller, George Wolfe, John Kline, James Quinter, D.L. Miller and
> Wilbur
> Brenner Stover. Since there are no COB churches here in Clarksville,
> TN I
> have been raised in the Southern Baptist church so learning about the
> leaders and the doctrine of the church is the reason I joined this
> message
> board. The story on Alexander Mack doesn't give the names of his
> children
> except for Alexander Mack, Jr who was the bishop of Germantown for
> 50 years.
>
> I also got: "The German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America"
> copyright
> 1906, Elgin, Ill, Brethren Publishing House by Martin Grove
> Brumbaugh. I
> have not read this book yet since it is 538 pages long.
>
> The third book is "Brethren Education in the Southeast" by Paul Haynes
> Bowman honoring the founding of Bridgewater College copyright 1955,
> printed
> by Brethren Printing, Elgin , IL. This book has a list of the board
> of
> trustees Bridgewater, Daleville and Blue Ridge colleges.
>
> Gail Bowman Longton
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "k. kensinger" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 12:20 PM
> Subject: [BRE] "They Planted a Tree in the Wilderness"
>
>
>>
>> I bought it to check on a reference, and it's not in the book, so if
>> anyone would be interested in buying it(1/2 price),email me at:
>>
>> ken
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