23 April 1876 A.D. Rev. Dr. Junkin, a Presbyterian U.S. Navy Chaplain—Averts gunfire from a friendly, the USS Constitution: “…that’s our Chaplain!”
23 April 1876 A.D. Rev. Dr. Junkin, a Presbyterian U.S. Navy Chaplain—Averts gunfire from a friendly, the USS Constitution: “…that’s our Chaplain!” Editors. “.” This Day in U.S. Presbyterian History. 23 Apr 2015. http://www.thisday.pcahistory.org/2015/04/april-23-rev-david-x-junkin/ . Accessed 23 Apr 2015. April 23: Rev. David X. Junkin DAVID X. JUNKIN, D.D. The family was probably in its remotest ancestry Danish, but for many generations previous to the Revolution of 1688 had dwelt in Scotland. The Doctor’s maternal grandmother was Scotch, of the name of Wallace; his mother, Elinor Cochran born in Franklin county, Pa. The Junkins came to Pennsylvania early in the eighteenth century, and the grandparents of the Doctor to Cumberland about 1740, before Harrisburg was a town, and when Cumberland was a wilderness. His grandfather owned five hundred acres of land, on a part of which New Kingston now stands. The large stone-house, which he built a century and a quarter ago, i...