Jessie Brown Pounds

POUNDS, Jessie Hunter (née Brown). b. Hiram, Ohio, 31 August 1861; d. Hiram, 3 March 1921. She was born into a family of the Church of the Disciples of Christ. She was often in poor health as a child and was educated at home. She wrote essays and poems for religious periodicals, notably the Christian Standard, and for newspapers at Cleveland. In 1897 she married John E. Pounds, pastor of the Central Christian Church, Indianapolis. He later became pastor in her native town of Hiram. Jessie Pounds was known as a writer of fiction as well as a poet. Among her many books were Norman Macdonald (1887), Roderick Wayne (1889) Ironclad Pledge: a story of Christian endeavor (1890), all published by...