Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Logan County.

Note:  This biography, although belonging in Logan County, is printed in
the biographies of Warren Co.

BISHOP H. L. EADS, of Logan County, was born in a log cabin, near South
Union, Ky., April 28, 1807, and is a son of Samuel G. and Sallie (Robinson)
Eads.  He joined the Society of Shakers in his mother's arms; at its first
gathering on the 17th of November following was "given up to the Lord" and
placed in "the children's order" before he was one year old.  All he is, or
has, the Shakers made him and gave him, after obtaining his existence.  He
continued to live in a little log cabin until he was fifteen years old. 
After four years of age, he attended school three months each year,
leearned to read, spell, write "and 'tis said could ciper too" as far as
the rule of three and vulgar fractions.  All else (and he is the best read
scholar, writer and logician ever reared among the Shakers) he has "picked
up" at spare moments.  After he was six or eight years of age he worked
sedulously at some manual labor for nine months each year; learned the
shoe-maker's trade by four years' active service; was a teamster for two
years; a seed grower for eight years; was next elevated to the ministry
(1836) with Elder B. S. Youngs (the first missionary sent from the mother
society in New York to the West) and now "paid his way" by learning and
working at the tailor and book-binding trades. In 1844 he was suddenly
called to Ohio; was then informed of his releasement from the capacity of a
bishop, and requested to make his home at Union Village Society.  This he
did without ever inquiring the reasons for his displacement, and to this
day he is ignorant of the cause.  In Ohio he learned and worked two years
at wool-carding and spinning, also at the tin and sheet-works.  He was
appointed novitiate elder at Union Village, Ohio, in 1846, remaining at the
same twelve years; there learned the printing, dentistry, painting and hat
trades; was relieved of the eldership in 1858, and worked as a common
laborer for two full years, when he was again appointed the elder of a
senior family.  At this as well as at the novitiate family he was very
successful in his undertakings.  At the opening of the (un) civil war he
was sent back to Kentucky to assume the position he so suddenly vacated in
1844 - the junior bishop in the society having been absent more than
eighteen years; next became one of the bishops in the consolidated ministry
of the two Kentucky societies.  In 1872 this consolidation was dissolved,
and he became and has remained acting head of the Shaker Society at South
Union, Ky.

Eads Robinson Youngs
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Logan-KY NY OH

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