History of Mount Aerial, (Allen County) Kentucky United States of America

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James Lincoln Goodknight, clergyman and educator, was born near Mt. Aerial, Allen county, Ky., Aug. 24, 1846; son of Isaac and Lucinda (Billingsley) Goodknight, and a grandson of Jacob and Elizabeth (Condor) Goodknight, and of Capt. John and Mary (Doak) Billingsley, and great-grandson of Michael and Mary (Landes) Goodknight. His great-grandfather, Michael, came from the lowlands of Germany to Philadelphia about 1735, and settled at Rockbridge, Va., about 1737; removing thence to Mecklenburg county, N.C, where he was a member of the Mecklenburg convention which adopted the first Declaration of Independence. He removed from North Carolina to Harlaus Station, Mercer county, Ky. His son, Isaac, is said to have been the first white male child born in Kentucky. James L. Goodknight was graduated from Cumberland university, Tenn., in 1871. He was a teacher at Little Muddy, Ky., 1871-72; was ordained a Presbyterian minister. Aug. 9, 1872; and was joint pastor at Little Muddy, Pilot Knob, and Gasper River, Ky., 1872-76. He was graduated from the Union theological seminary, New York, in 1879; was pastor at Covington, Ohio, 1879-89, and was a delegate from the Cumberland Pan-Presbyterian Denominate to the Pan-Presbyterian council at Belfast, Ireland, in 1884, when the Cumberland Presbyterians were first admitted to membership in the council. He was also a delegate to the World's Sunday-school convention in London, England, in 1889. He took a post-graduate course and first honors in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1889-90; received the degree of D.D. from Waynesburg college, Pa, in 1890; took a post-graduate course in philosophy, pedagogy and biology at Jena university, Germany, 1890-91, and took six months of travel study in Egypt, Palestine. Syria, Asia Minor, Turkey, Greece and Italy in 1891, having previously spent five months in such study in Europe. He was pastor at Waynesburg, Pa., 1891-95, and president of West Virginia university at Morgantown, W.Va., 1895-97. He is the author of numerous contributions on religious, social, political and educational questions to periodical literature.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Mount Aerial, (Allen County) Kentucky

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