Old Photograph Stirling Street Alva Scotland

Old photograph of shops, houses, people and car on Stirling Street in Alva, Clackmannanshire, Scotland. John Eadie was born on 9 May 1810 in Alva. Having studied the arts curriculum at the University of Glasgow, he studied for the ministry at the Divinity Hall of the United Secession Church, a dissenting body which, on its union a few years later with the Relief Church, adopted the title the United Presbyterian Church. In 1843 Eadie was appointed professor of biblical literature and hermeneutics in the Divinity Hall of the United Presbyterian body. He held this appointment along with his ministerial charge for the rest of his life.
He died at 6 Thornville Terrace[2] in Hillhead, Glasgow on 3 June 1876.

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