Thought you might like some info on this man to put in the bio:
Head-and-shoulders portrait of Reverend Jonathan Franklin Denton, son of John B.
Denton (1806-1841), for whom Denton County and city are named, and Mary Greenlee
Stewart (1808-1848). Rev, J. F. Denton was born in Clark County, AR. He and a
brother, Rev. John B. Denton, Jr., followed their father into the Methodist
ministry. The two brothers were members of the West Texas Conference of the M. E.
Church, South, that met at San Marcos, TX, on October 16-22, 1878. Their pictures,
with those of other members of the conference, appear in Nail's Centennial History
of Texas Methodism, page 122. The two preacher sons of Denton and a grandson,
Professor William Baker, were speakers at the services in which John B. Denton's
remains were buried on the courthouse lawn at Denton in 1901. Rev. J. F. Denton died
in Weatherford, TX, around 1907.
Infomation from Denton Public Library
Head-and-shoulders portrait of Reverend Jonathan Franklin Denton, son of John B.
Denton (1806-1841), for whom Denton County and city are named, and Mary Greenlee
Stewart (1808-1848). Rev, J. F. Denton was born in Clark County, AR. He and a
brother, Rev. John B. Denton, Jr., followed their father into the Methodist
ministry. The two brothers were members of the West Texas Conference of the M. E.
Church, South, that met at San Marcos, TX, on October 16-22, 1878. Their pictures,
with those of other members of the conference, appear in Nail's Centennial History
of Texas Methodism, page 122. The two preacher sons of Denton and a grandson,
Professor William Baker, were speakers at the services in which John B. Denton's
remains were buried on the courthouse lawn at Denton in 1901. Rev. J. F. Denton died
in Weatherford, TX, around 1907.
Infomation from Denton Public Library
Thought you might like some info on this man to put in the bio:
Head-and-shoulders portrait of Reverend Jonathan Franklin Denton, son of John B.
Denton (1806-1841), for whom Denton County and city are named, and Mary Greenlee
Stewart (1808-1848). Rev, J. F. Denton was born in Clark County, AR. He and a
brother, Rev. John B. Denton, Jr., followed their father into the Methodist
ministry. The two brothers were members of the West Texas Conference of the M. E.
Church, South, that met at San Marcos, TX, on October 16-22, 1878. Their pictures,
with those of other members of the conference, appear in Nail's Centennial History
of Texas Methodism, page 122. The two preacher sons of Denton and a grandson,
Professor William Baker, were speakers at the services in which John B. Denton's
remains were buried on the courthouse lawn at Denton in 1901. Rev. J. F. Denton died
in Weatherford, TX, around 1907.
Infomation from Denton Public Library
Head-and-shoulders portrait of Reverend Jonathan Franklin Denton, son of John B.
Denton (1806-1841), for whom Denton County and city are named, and Mary Greenlee
Stewart (1808-1848). Rev, J. F. Denton was born in Clark County, AR. He and a
brother, Rev. John B. Denton, Jr., followed their father into the Methodist
ministry. The two brothers were members of the West Texas Conference of the M. E.
Church, South, that met at San Marcos, TX, on October 16-22, 1878. Their pictures,
with those of other members of the conference, appear in Nail's Centennial History
of Texas Methodism, page 122. The two preacher sons of Denton and a grandson,
Professor William Baker, were speakers at the services in which John B. Denton's
remains were buried on the courthouse lawn at Denton in 1901. Rev. J. F. Denton died
in Weatherford, TX, around 1907.
Infomation from Denton Public Library
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