TY - SER
KW - ministers
KW - missionaries
KW - romantic relationships
KW - Protestants
AU - Samuel John Mills Eaton
AB - Set in Lakeside, a fictitious pioneer community near Presque Isle. Mr. Eaton sets up a church in the wilderness, does missionary work in the Northwest Territories that are to be Ohio, and then travels to Laurel Hill to find his true love. After they marry, they go back to Lakeside to begin his ministry anew.
C1 - 1800s-40s
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Crawford County; Meadville; Erie County; Lake Erie; Erie; Millcreek Twp.; Presque Isle; Fayette County; Laurel Ridge; Mercer County; Mercer; Washington County; Canonsburg
C4 - Christian; Historical; Roman à clef; Romance
CY - Pittsburgh
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Laurel Ridge is referred to as Laurel Hill, as it is often known.

Based on the lives of the author’s parents: Rev. Johnston Eaton (1776-1847) and Elizabeth Canon (1780-1872).
N2 - Set in Lakeside, a fictitious pioneer community near Presque Isle. Mr. Eaton sets up a church in the wilderness, does missionary work in the Northwest Territories that are to be Ohio, and then travels to Laurel Hill to find his true love. After they marry, they go back to Lakeside to begin his ministry anew.
PB - Presbyterian Board of Colportage
PP - Pittsburgh
PY - 1880
RN - Samuel John Mills Eaton (1820-89), born in Fairview, Erie County, graduated from Washington & Jefferson College and the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. A Presbyterian minister, for many years he served as pastor in Franklin, Venango County and wrote a number of books.


EP - 306 p.
TI - Lakeside: A Memorial of the Planting of the Church in Northwestern Pennsylvania
ER -