Milnor Jones, Deacon and Missionary (SIGNED BY JOS. BLUNT CHESHIRE)

Cheshire, Jos. Blount. (Bishop of North Carolina)

Published by Mutual Publishing Company, Printers, Raleigh, 1920

About this Item

12mo. 84 pages. Soft cover bound in grey wrappers. Light wear to the binding. There is a brown splash mark on the spine. Illustrated with several photographs. Prior owner's name on the front cover is Wade R. Brown. INSCRIBED by the author to Brown on the recto of the frontis, "Wade R. Brown from Jas. Blount Cheshire." Cheshire (1850-1932) was the Bishop of North Carolina for the Episcopal Church from 1893 to 1922. Wade R. Brown was the Dean of the music department at the State Normal and Industrial School (now UNCG) in Greensboro, North Carolina and is the faculty member for whom the Brown Building is named. ~~ Milnor Jones was an itinerant Episcopal preacher from South Carolina who went to western North Carolina in the late 19th century to preach and establish churches in the remote mountain valleys. Along with Cheshire, he helped re-establish and build a mission and church in Valle Crucis, North Carolina, near Boone. This volume contains an account of his work in South Carolina as well as in the NC counties of Watauga, Mitchell, and Ashe. Chapter 5 (pages 54 to 66) is on the Valle Crucis Mission. Illustrated with several photos.

Seller Inventory # 037397

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Milnor Jones, Deacon and Missionary (SIGNED BY JOS. BLUNT CHESHIRE)
• Publisher: Mutual Publishing Company, Printers, Raleigh
• Publication Date: 1920
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition First Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • North Carolina
  • Ministers, Sermons, Missionaries & Evangelists
  • Signed Books & Association Copies