Cumber land Presbyterians

a religious denomination which sprang up in 1810 in the State of Kentucky, in consequence of a dispute between the presbytery of Cumber land in that State, and the Kentucky Synod of the Presbyterian Church in America, concerning the ordination of persons who had not pa ed through the usual educational curriculm, but whose services the presbytery regarded as demanded for the ministry by the exigencies of the times.: Cumber land Road, The, a highway about 800 miles long, extending ‘ from Fort Cumber land, Md., over the Alleghany Mountains, to Vandal i a, Til. The road commenced in 1806, and finished about 1840, was known as “The Great National Pike.” It was built by the Federal Government, and was under the control of the Washington authorities until 1856, when it was relegated to the various States through which it pa ed. Prior to railroads it was the great avenue ‘to the West, and over it the pioneers of Western development emigrated.