1881 BARTON STONE - RESTORATION MOVEMENT. Autobiography of Elder Samuel Rogers [b.1789].

Rather rare work on the life of Elder Samuel Rogers [b.1789] who was one of the earlier "Elders" to join in following Barton W. Stone after the Cane Ridge Revival, etc., 

Born in Virginia in 1789, the family moved to Kentucky in 1793, when Samuel was just 4 years of age. By 1812, he had married Elizabeth Irvin, whose family had become followers of Stone when he preached near their home. That same year, Rogers himself heard Stone and was "liberated from the shackles of denominationalism," and was then sent off to fight in the War of 1812. 

After the War ended, he and his wife moved westward into Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri and planted groups of Christian Baptists everywhere they went. By 1825, he met with Alexander Campbell and became a core part of the Westward Expansion of the movement. 

His autobiography is scarce and a valuable source of early Restoration Movement history and biography. No copies on the market at the time of listing.

[Stone-Campbell Movement] Rogers, Samuel. Autobiography of Elder Samuel Rogers. Edited by His Son, Elder John I. Rogers. Cincinnati. Standard Publishing Company. 1881. 208pp.

Good, solid example in original cloth, rubbed through at extremities and faded. Else very solid and clean with one page having an acid burn from an old insert and one page with corner turned.