Rev. Andrew Jardine

1785 - 1868  (83 years)

• Name	Andrew Jardine
  Prefix	Rev.
  Born	25 Feb 1785	Southdean, , Roxburgh, Scotland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-216435
  Died	17 May 1868	East Maine, Broome, New York, United States   [1]
  Person ID	I216435	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

• Notes

  THE REV. ANDREW JARDINE departed this life in the 83d year of his age and the 36th of his ministry, on the 15th of May, 1868, in East Maine, Broome county, New York. Mr. JARDINE was born on the 25th of February, 1785, in the parish of Southdean, Scotland. His parents, Thomas JARDINE and JANET OLIVER, were pious members, of the Established church of Scotland. When a child he was struck by lightning, which for a time impaired his physical constitution and nearly deprived him of sight. Early in life he formed the desire to become a minister of the gospel, but his parents were unable through poverty to afford him an education; and one-half of his long life was spent in acquiring it for himself. To do this, he worked on a farm, tended sheep and taught schools in his neighborhood. Having through these means acquired funds enough to enable him to attend a Grammar school, he entered one at Jedburg. After having obtained there a competent knowledge of the English, Latin, and Greek branches, he next became a teacher of a parish school in the county of Northumberland, in England. He remained in that position four years, after which he entered the Edinburgh University. During his attendance here he taught a classical school, and was for some years Secretary to the Scottish Bible Society. After many years spent in laborious preparation, he was licensed to preach the gospel in 1832, by the Presbytery of New Castle, in England, and for six months thereafter supplied the church at Felton, England, during the absence of the regular minister. In 1834 a gentleman who had acquired a large tract of land at Silver Lake in the North Eastern part to Pennsylvania, raised a colony of emigrants in and around Jedburg, in Scotland, for the purpose of settling on that land. He also invited Mr. JARDINE to be their pastor and he consented. He was ordained for that purpose by the Presbytery of New Castle. With this colony Mr. JARDINE arrived at New York on the 5th of August, 1834, and repaired directly to Silver Lake and entered upon the duties of his ministry. But the colony did not exist long; for finding affairs very different from what they had been represented in England, dissatisfaction ensued and the colony soon disbanded, and the members thereof, Mr. Jardine included, sought more congenial situations. In April, 1836, after a long and searching examination of his faith in those doctrines which then agitated the church, he was cordially received as a foreign minister by the Presbytery of Philadelphia. Shortly afterwards he became stated supply to a church in Maryland, in which situation he remained five years; then at Derham church in Tinicum, Pa., for one year; and afterwards for eighteen months to a church at Port Carbon, Pa. But earnestly desirous of obtaining a permanent charge, and learning that a colony of his countrymen in Clearfield county, Pa., desired a pastor, he concluded to pay them a visit and tender his services. While on his way there he met the Rev. John Hutcheson, then pastor of Miffintown and Lost Creek, who called his attention to a vacant church of Middle Tuscarora, Juniata county, and advised him to apply for that. Yielding to Mr. Hutcheson's persuasions, he accompanied him and was by him introduced to the congregation. That church heard him gladly ; in due time he was called, and he was regularly installed as their pastor by the Presbytery of Huntingdon. There he labored abundantly for sixteen years, and for a long time with eminent success. The church grew rapidly under his ministry until it numbered nearly five hundred members. But in course of time, old age with its infirmities came upon him, and a long and severe fever impaired his faculties, both mental and bodily. The old members gradually died off and the young became weary of his old fashioned style of preaching. Thinking that he had survived his usefulness, the church asked for a dissolution of the pastoral relation. This action on their part hurt his feelings exceedingly; for he tenderly loved all the lambs of his flock, and it was always his cherished desire to live and die with them. Besides he had labored faithfully during the best years of his ministry for the miserable pittance of four hundred dollars salary per annum; and at this time, nearly two thousand dollars of that miserable pittance was still due to him. But the Huntingdon Presbytery believing that it would prove advantageous to all parties concerned, having received a guarantee that all the arrears of his stipend should be paid, concluded to dissolve the pastoral relation. This they did much to his sorrow and regret. After this he had no fixed charge. For a few months he supplied the congregation of Mount Pleasant, in Clearfield county, Pa., after which, in 1858, he removed to East Maine, Broome county, New York, to the residence of his cousin, William Hogg, Esq., where he remained until his death. History of the Presbytery of Huntingdon By William J. Gibson

  
  

• Sources

  [S31] News - ON, Waterloo, Cambridge - Dumfries Reformer (1850-1892), 3 Jun 1868. Jardine, Rev. Andrew died 17 May 1868 Died at the residence of Wm. Hogg, East Main, NY, in his 84th year. A native of Roxburghshire, Scotland, and minister of the Kirk of Scotland. He visited friends in Galt in autumn, 1861, at which time he supplied St. Andrew's Church for several Sabbaths and Knox Church at an evening service. [Long obituary]

  
  

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  Born - 25 Feb 1785 - Southdean, , Roxburgh, Scotland Died - 17 May 1868 - East Maine, Broome, New York, United States  = Link to Google Earth