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On the 1870 U. S. Census of Davidson Co., Tennessee, J. D. Kirkpatrick age 24 and Sue his wife age 25. They have a son Curby B. age 2. J. D. is a minister of the gospel.

Goodspeed Biographies of Wilson County, Tennessee reports on John D.(illard) Kirkpatrick, D.D. professor of historic and practical theology in Cumberland University and editor and proprietor of the Lebanon Register, was born July 8, 1836, son of Anderson and Eliza (Moss) Kirkpatrick, who were the parents of nine children. The father was of Scotch-Irish lineage, born in Wilson County in 1808, a farmer and stock raiser by occupation. He was married about 1828, and has since resided on the old homestead, which consists of several hundred acres. the mother was born in 1814 in Christian County, Kentucky, and died in 1875. Our subject received his rudimentary education in the county schools, and afterward attended the Hartsville High School for three years and the High School at Mount Juliet two years. At the age of nineteen he entered Cumberland University, remaining two years. In 1857 he entered the Theological Seminary of, the same institution. He began teaching in 1854, and in 1858 became a minister of the Presbyterian Church, being ordained in 1860. In April, 1861, he enlisted in Maney's company, First Tennessee Regiment. In 1862, he returned to Sumner County and raised Companies C and D, and was elected captain of Company C, Seventh Tennessee Cavalry. He participated in many of the principal battles of the war, and rose to the rank of Colonel. He was seriously wounded at Cynthiana, Ky., and was compelled to give up active duty, and was given charge of the enrolling department at Richmond, Va. He was also chaplain of his regiment. After his return he resumed teaching, and November 1, 1866, he married Susan Kirkpatrick, who has borne him four children: Curry B., Donnell B., John D. and Harry B. In 1865 he was given the pastorate of the Goodlettsville Cumberland Presbyterian Church, where he remained four years, and then took charge of the Second Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Nashville. In 1875 he was called to Lebanon to become the financial agent of Cumberland University, and at the same time accepted the chair of historic and practical theology, which he has since filled with credit to himself and honor to the institution. In 1880 he was made managing editor and proprietor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Review. This he disposed of, however, and in 1885 took charge of the Register. In December of the same year the building caught fire, and was consumed with all it's contents. He immediately re-established himself and is at present editing a newsy and valuable paper. In 1884 the degree of D.D. was conferred upon him entirely unsolicited. He is a man of unsullied reputation, a gentleman and a scholar. He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, and K. of H. and K. of P.

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Birth	8 Jul 1838	Lebanon, Wilson Co., Tennessee
Marriage	1 Nov 1866	Sumner Co., Tennessee - Susan Hannah Kirkpatrick
Death	2 Aug 1895	Ripley, Lauderdale Co., Tennessee
Title (Nobility)		Rev.
Burial		Cedar Grove Cemetery, Lebanon, Wilson Co., Tennessee

Spouse	Susan Hannah Kirkpatrick (1844 - 1908)
Child	Curry "Curby" B. Kirkpatrick (1867 - 1891)
Child	Donnell B. Kirkpatrick (1872 - )
Child	John D. Kirkpatrick (1875 - )
Child	Harry B. Kirkpatrick (1878 - )

Father	Anderson Kirkpatrick (1808 - 1887)
Mother	Emma Eliza Moss (1812 - 1874)
Sibling	Lucilius Moss Kirkpatrick (1829 - 1908)
Sibling	Ann Elizabeth Kirkpatrick (1831 - 1912)
Sibling	Mary Frances Kirkpatrick (1833 - 1874)
Sibling	Lutitia Jane Kirkpatrick (1835 - 1892)
Sibling	Amy Angeline Kirkpatrick (1837 - 1837)
Sibling	William Henry Harrison Kirkpatrick (1840 - 1908)
Sibling	Thomas Curry Kirkpatrick (1843 - 1932)
Sibling	James Hamilton Kirkpatrick (1845 - 1847)
Sibling	Josephine Hodge Kirkpatrick (1848 - 1909)
Sibling	Sarah Manie Kirkpatrick (1853 - )