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Alexander "A.H." Hume Rule is credited as having started the first assembly in Des Moines, [[Iowa]]: the [[Des Moines Meeting Room, IA|Des Moines Meeting Room]] in the Fall of 1880, from a foreword the first volume of his [https://bibletruthpublishers.com/foreword/alexander-hume-rule/selected-ministry-of-a-h-rule-volume-1/a-h-rule/la87662 Selected Ministry] series.
=Life=
He (1843-1906) was born in on May 6, 1843 in Jedburgh, near Hawick, Roxburghshire, in the southeast of [[Scotland]], near the border with England, raised Presbyterian. His parents were John Johnstone Rule (1813-1888) and Jane Hume (1820-1889). His father was employed initially as a farm laborer, later as a shepherd, Hawick was a centre of the wool processing industry. It is unknown whether Jane was related to philosopher David Hume (1711-1776).
Monmouth College (now a part of [https://www.pts.edu/ Pittsburgh Theological Seminary] in Monmouth, Illinois, is where Alexander studied Greek, Latin, Hebrew, theology and many other subjects. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1868 and a Master of Arts degree in 1871. He met his future wife, Jane "Jennie" Moore Clarke (1845- 1918) at Monmouth College, where she was also a student. Jennie, who was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, excelled in mathematics and music while in college and became an accomplished pianist. She graduated from college with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1868.
In Sep 1871, Alexander was ordained as a minister in the United Presbyterian Church of North America (UPCNA). In Oct 1871, he and Jennie got married and Alexander served as a minister in Vinton, Iowa, until July 1872 when they returned to Hawick, Scotland where they studied Arabic in preparation for missionary service in Egypt with the UPNCA, their eldest daughter Carrie was born here in Oct. 1872. It was also there that Alexander and Jennie discovered William Kelly's "Lectures on the Church of God", changing their ecclesiastical position, but continued on to Egypt where they arrived in early 1873 where they remained until 1874 They returned to the U.S. where Alexander engaged in gospel preaching and Bible teaching, and Jennie with a gift of ministry among women, among PB. They lived initially in Vinton, Iowa, then St. Louis by 1878, then Des Moines in 1880 where they remained for the duration of their lives.
Alexander & Jennie had six children:
=Children=
* Carrie Clarke Rule Kingsbury (b. 1872 Hawick, Scot.) Husband (1905 Des Moines, IA): Clarence Thrall Kingsbury (b. 1881 Dunlap, Harrison, IA), son of Arthur Preston Kingsbury (b. 1855 Coventry, Tolland, [[Connecticut|CT]] & Carrie Thrall Kingsbury (m. 1880 Dunlap, IA). In 1900, Carrie was employed as a schoolteacher in Des Moines.
* [[John Frederick Rule]]
* Dr. James Clarke Rule (b. 1880 St. Louis, MO - d. 1940 Stockton, San Joaquin, CA). Dr. Rule moved to Stockton in 1903 where he opened an osteopathy office, after graduating from the Univ. of Iowa. He was a dean of osteopaths, and and died of a heart attack while on the Stockton Golf & Country Club, which he assisted in establishing in 1910. He played basketball with the YMCA All Stars 1910 which he continued many years, and directed a boys' work for the local Optimists. Wife: Katharyn Mae Peacock Rule (b. 1881 IL - d. 1964 Stockton, CA), daughter of Frank D. Peacock & Josephine Hume Peacock.
** Frank A. Rule (b. 1907 Stockton, CA) - Silver Spring, MD
** Dr. Hulet Hume Rule (b. 1908 Stockton, CA - d. 1982 Pebble Beach, Monterey, CA); Wife(1939 @ Stockton, CA): Mary Polak Rule (b. 1913 ONFernie, Elk Valley, East Kootenai, BC; 1935 Vancouver, [[British Columbia|BC]]; emig. 1937 Stockton, CA; d. 1981 Pebble Beach, CA) , daughter of John Polak (b. 1877 Czech.; emig. 1905; d. 1938 Fernie, BC. John was employed in 1911 In 1935, Mary lived in Vancouver, and by 1937 in Edmonton, [[Alberta|AB]] when she emigrated as a grad nurse to settle with her sister Emma Hazel Polak Dielman (1915-2007) who worked or lived at the [https://www.dameronhospital.org/ Dameron Hospital] in Stockton. 1961- 1981/1982 @ Pebble Beach, CA. ** Dr. James RRoderick Rule (b. 1911 Stockton, CA - d. 1987 Ventura, CA). Wife: Dorothy Ann Jones Rule (b. 1913 Chico, Butte, CA - Stocktond. 1990 Ventura, CA), daughter Charlie Laverne Jones (b. 1886 Meridian, Sutter, CA - d. 1935 San Joaquin, CA). In 1920, Charlie was managing a lumber flour mill in Chico, he was Lutheran.
** Capt. John "Jack" Clarke Rule (1917-1969 Stockton, CA). Cpt. Rule served with the Stockton Fire Dept. 1942-1969. Wife: Winifred Garnet "Gamma" Harris Rule (1914-1985 Stockton, CA), daughter of Allen E. Ghoca-Harris (b. 1871 Wausau, [[Wisconsin|WI]] - d. 1947 Stockton, CA) & Esther Grover Ghoca-Harris (b. 1879 Amherst Junction, Portage, WI - d. 1927 Stockton, CA). Allen Harris was a veteran of the Spanish-American War.
* Edward A. Rule
* Jean Rule
=Death=
Alexander died unexpectedly in 1906 at age 63. While engaged in renovating a house he owned and working on the second floor tearing down the interior part of a brick chimney, ten feet of the chimney gave way and fell on him, causing his death. His wife Jennie died in 1918 at age 73.
=Jennie's Revolutionary War ancestry=
Jennie’s paternal great-grandfather, Robert Clarke (1752-1899), served in the First, Fifth and Sixth Battalions of the Cumberland County Militia in Pennsylvania during the American Revolutionary War. Jennie’s maternal great-grandfather, Robert King (1747-1826), also served in the Revolutionary War, as an officer (2nd Lieutenant) in the Continental Army under the command of General George Washington. He fought in several battles and skirmishes and was once wounded in the skull but recovered. He spent the trying winter of 1777-78 with Washington at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
In the fall of 1778, he and two other officers were selected by Washington to assist Colonel Thomas Hartley in a campaign to defend the American frontier in western Pennsylvania against Indians who were allied with the British and who had caused much death and destruction. The campaign was successful. Robert King is the subject of a 29- page article in the periodical entitled Western Pennsylvania History (Vol. 5, No. 1, Apr 1922, pp. 145-173). He is buried in the soldiers’ plot in Evergreen Cemetery in Union City PA.
=AncestryAlexander's ancestry=
* John Johnstone Rule (b. 1813 Bent Path, Westerkirk, Dumfries, [[Scotland|Scot.]] - d. 1888 Elmira, Stark, IL), son of Alexander John Rule (b. 1783 Hairlawslock, Canonbie, Dumfries, Scot. - d. 1826?) & Jean Reid Rule (b. 1788 Glasgow, Scot. - d. 1889 Greenbush, [[New York|NY]]) ?. John's paternal grandparents were William Rule (b. 1749 Castleton, Roxburgh, Scot. - d. 1802 Archerbeck, Canonbie, Scot.) & Catherine Little Rule (1748-1832 Canonbie, Scot.). His maternal grandparents were James Reid (b. 1763 Dalry, Ayr, Scot.) & Margaret Douglas Reid (1764?-1830? Scot.).
* Jane Hume Rule (b. 1820 South Dean, Roxburgh, Scot. - d. 1889 Bureau Co., IL), daughter of James Hume (b. 1794 New Monkland, Lanark, Scot. - d. 1839 Southdean, Scottish Borders, Scot.) & Jane Huggan Hume (b. 1784 Maxton, Roxburgh or Crailing, Scottish Borders, Scot. - d. 1865 Jedburgh, Roxburgh, Scot.). Her paternal grandparents were James Hume (b. 1757 New Monkland, Scot.) & Janet Stevenson Hume (b. 1765 New Monkland, Scot.), and her maternal grandparents were Andrew Huggan (b. 1767 Crailing, Roxburgh, Scot. - d. 1853 Maxwellheugh, Kelso, Roxburgh, Scot.) & Jane Scott Huggan (b. 1767 Crailing, Scot. - d. 1790? Roxburghshire, Scot.).
