Seminary; he graduated in May of 1876. The young Warfield was soon licensed to preach, but he declined to take a call in Dayton, Ohio to pursue further studies in Europe. Soon after marrying Annie Pearce Kinkead, who was also from noble stock, the newlyweds journeyed to Leipzig. Kinkead was a descendent of George Rogers Clark, the famous general of the Revolutionary War who was known as the “Hannibal of the West.”25 During their stay in Europe, an event occurred that would forever change the Warfields’
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