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WHAREY, James, clergyman, born in Rutherford county, North Carolina, 15 June, 1789; died in Goochland county, Virginia, 29 April, 1842. He entered Hampden Sidney college, where he remained for five years, teaching to obtain means to pursue his education, tie was licensed to preach in 1818, and began his ministry in Amherst and Nelson counties, spending a part of his time as principal of an academy, hi 1819 he made a missionary tour in Virginia, and afterward he was chaplain of Hampden Sidney for a year. In 1822 he held a charge in Cartersville, Virginia, and in 1824 he was made pastor of the churches of Bird and Providence in Goochland county, Virginia, where he served until his death. He published a series of articles in the " Southern Religious Telegraph" on " Baptism," and " Sketches of Church History from the Birth of Christ to the Nineteenth Century," both of which afterward appeared in book-form. Of the latter a new edition was published (Philadelphia, 1850).
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