Fall, P. S. (Philip Slater), 1798-1890

Philip Slater Fall was born in 1798 at Brighton, England. His family immigrated to America in 1817, settling in Logan County, Kentucky. After the deaths of both parents, Fall moved to Franklin County in 1820 to teach in an academy. He was licensed to preach at the age of twenty-one and was ordained a Baptist minister. In 1820 Fall married Anne Bacon of Franklin County. Three years later, the Falls went to Louisville where Philip took charge of an academy and a small Baptist church. Fall began to study the teachings of Rev. Alexander Campbell and became a convert to the Campbellite or Christian movement. His congregation became the First Christian Church of Louisville. Fall established other Christian churches in his career and profoundly influenced the development of the new denomination in Kentucky and Tennessee. Philip and Anne Fall retired to Frankfort in 1877, where she died in 1888 and he died in 1890.