Thomas O. Chisholm

CHISHOLM, Thomas Obediah. b. Franklin, Kentucky, 29 July 1866; d. Ocean Grove, New Jersey, 29 February 1960. Thomas Chisholm received little formal education beyond elementary school. He served as a teacher at his own rural school from age 16, and then assumed editing duties at his hometown newspaper, The Franklin Favorite, at age 23. Converted under the preaching of Henry Clay Morrison (founder of Asbury College & Seminary), Chisholm became editor and manager of the Pentecostal Herald in Louisville, Kentucky. He was ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1903 but served only briefly, owing to poor health, as a pastor in Scottsville, Kentucky; he then sold life insurance in...