Carroll Kendrick (minister)

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Carroll Kendrick (December 29, 1815 – October 2, 1891) was a preacher, physician, and writer in the Restoration Movement, the early Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He was born in Maury County, Tennessee, studied at Bacon College (now Transylvania University), earned a medical degree, and received an honorary Master of Arts from Franklin College. He married Mary Wade Forbes in 1840, and they had nine children.

In 1851, Kendrick moved to Texas as a missionary and helped start and promote camp meetings for the Christian churches there. He preached across East Texas and frontier towns, living in Palestine, Salado, Bryan, and Bastrop before eventually moving on to California.

Kendrick was also a prolific writer and editor. He contributed to the Millennial Harbinger, Gospel Advocate, Ecclesiastic Reformer, and Christian Philanthropist. With his brother Allen Kendrick, he founded and edited the Christian Journal. In Texas, he published the Christian Philanthropist in 1855, becoming the first Christian Church publisher in Texas; the Philanthropist later merged with the Tennessee Gospel Advocate. He continued editing and publishing in Texas and across his career.

In 1890 he published Live Religious Issues of the Day: Rules and Principles for Bible Study; part of this work was reprinted as Rules for Bible Study in 1946. Carroll Kendrick died in Downey, California, in 1891 at age 75 and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery near Los Angeles.