J. Carroll Stark (1831–1908)

J. Caroll Stark was a classmate of President James Garfield.

He was in the work of the ministry at twenty. Before coming to Illinois, he served churches in Ohio, New York, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota. In this State he served at Princeton, Ohiotown, Belleplain, Antioch (now Toluca), Augusta, Table Grove, Greenville, Salem, Duquoin, Blandinsville and Hamilton. Besides this, he evangelized in twenty-two States and Provinces. His public ministry reached through fifty-eight years. He held many formal debates on various subjects pertaining to religion. Probably the last of these was in 1903, on "Instrumental Music in the Church of Christ," at Henderson, Tennessee, with Joe S. Wallick [sic - Warlick]. His last pastorate was at Tullahoma, Tennessee. Later, he moved to a ranch near McMinnsville, and preached almost every Sunday to the mountain people, although he was in his seventy-ninth year.