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3/26/23  · Daily Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart
Post by Jim Curran

Breaker, Rev. J. M. C., was born near Camden,
Kershaw District, S. C., July 25, 1824; graduated
from Furman Literary and Theological Institution,
Fairfield, S C., June, 1846; ordained to the minis-
try July 3, 1846; has been pastor of Greenville,
Grahamville, Beaufort, Columbia, Spartansburg,
§.C.; Newbern, N. C.; Park Avenue, St. Louis,
Liberty and First church, St. Joseph, Mo.; and
has been pastor at Houston, Texas, since April,
1877, where he is excelled by no other city minister
in ability and influence ; for several years was sec-
retary of the South Carolina Baptist State Con-
vention ; founded and edited at Columbia, S. C.,
during the war, a weekly paper called The Con-
federate Baptist ; received the degree of D.D, from
Lagrange College, Mo.; is a life-emember of the
American Baptist Missionary Union, American
Baptist Publication Society, and the American
Bible Society ; has baptized 1520 persons ; is author
of a prize essay on ‘‘Communion,” published in
1859, and has contributed a number of articles to
the Christian Review and other periodicals.