Rev. Lewis Hay, D.D. and Marion Hill

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Husband Rev. Lewis Hay, D.D. ¹

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           Born: 1840 - Zelienople, Jackson Twp, Butler Co, PA 1
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         Father: Robert Hay (      -1887) 2 3
         Mother: Jane Buhl (      -1909) 2 3

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       Marriage: 1882 3

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Wife Marion Hill ³

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         Father: Daniel Hill (      -      ) 3
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Children

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1 F Sarah Meyers ⁴

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         Status: Adopted

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Lewis Hay, D.D.

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He attended public school and the academy at Zelienople, Pennsylvania, and when he began the serious work of life was associated in business with his father at Pittsburgh for a time. His next occupation was as traveling salesman for a New England leather and shoe manufacturing concern, with which he was connected in that capacity until 1873, at which time he put his determination to prepare for the ministry into practical execution. He took up a course of theological reading for one year, and then entered the Western Presbyterian Theological Seminary, at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, from which institution he was graduated in 1877. His first call was to the Church of the Reformation at Washington, D. C. From there he went to Brookville, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, where he was pastor for two years, at the end of that time changing to Leechburg, Armstrong County, where he was stationed from 1881 to 1885. In 1885 he came to Indiana as pastor of the Lutheran Church, which at that time was quite weak, the congregation numbering only about 165 members, and the church activities without enthusiastic support. Under Dr. Hay's pastorate the church grew until there were 475 members, with a Sunday school of 450 members, including a male Bible class of nearly one hundred, a mother's Bible class of about fifty and an infant department of nearly one hundred. This church had the largest missionary society in the Pittsburg Synod. Over thirty thousand dollars was expended on the church building and the parsonage property was a very creditable holding, worth over ten thousand dollars. The congregation was entirely free from debt. [HIC 1913, 722]

1 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 721.

2 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1085.

3 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 722.

4 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 723.