Carswell, Rev. Egenardus Ruthven, M.D., was born in Burke Co., Ga., Oct. 22, 1822.

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Carswell, Rev. Egenardus Ruthven, M.D., was born in Burke Co., Ga., Oct. 22, 1822. His parents were both native Georgians. His ancestors came from Ireland, his grandfather being a captain in the Revolutionary war. He was educated chiefly at Penfield, attending both Mercer Institute and Mercer University. He graduated in medicine at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, in March, 1844, and practiced medicine for ten years in Burke County. He experienced regenerating grace at the young men’s twilight meeting at Penfield in the spring of 1840, and was baptized by Dr. Adiel Sherwood. Impressed early that it was his duty to preach, he became a licentiate, and frequently engaged in proclaiming the gospel, meanwhile studying theology irregularly during the ten years of his medical practice. He was ordained at Bushy Creek church, Dec. 12, 1852. His first pastorate was that of Way’s church in Jefferson County. Afterwards he served Du Hart’s, Louis- ville, Piney Grove, Big Buckhead, Bark Camp, and Sardis churches, in the Hephzibah Associa- tion, besides others in both Georgia and South Carolina. Mr. Carswell has been a strenuous ad- vocate of temperance, of the Sunday-school cause, of missions, and of the distinctive peculiarities of Baptists. He has always been in full sympathy with the work of his Association and of the Geor- gia Baptist and Southern Baptist Conventions, and he was, perhaps, the youngest delegate present at the formation of the Southern Baptist Convention at Augusta in 1845. Utterly fearless in his sup- port of what he deems the truth, Mr. Carswell possesses great natural eloquence. He is noted for the power and pungency of his appeals, for logical force, and for rhetorical and figurative illustrations. Mr. Carswell married Miss L. A. Pior, Nov. 2, 1847, and they have raised six chil- dren, all of whom are members of Baptist churches, and two of whom are promising young ministers. Often made the moderator of the Hephzibah Asso- ciation, he has been honored by his brethren in various other ways in evidence of their confidence and high esteem. In 1872 he was selected to preach the first centennial sermon delivered in Georgia,— that of the Bottsford Baptist church in Burke County. From the Baptist Encyclopedia by William Cathcart

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