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David Rice

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Biographical sketch of Rev. David Rice (1733–1816), a Virginia-born Presbyterian minister and Kentucky pioneer, educator and anti-slavery author, noted for piety and longstanding ministry.
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David Rice (1733 – 1816) was an American Presbyterian minister and pioneering frontier evangelist who helped organize early Kentucky churches, presbyteries, and served as a key leader in founding Transylvania Seminary. Known for his tireless evangelistic and church-planting efforts across the frontier, Rice played a formative role in establishing Presbyterianism in Kentucky, earning him the enduring nickname “The Apostle to Kentucky.”

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