Ewing, Rev Fielding Nathaniel
- Scots-Irish Presbyterian ancestry; family emigrated from Northern Ireland to PA, then to NC and KY
- 1811 – born in Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina, son of Adlai Osborne Ewing and Sophia Goodrich Gillespie
- attended academy at Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky (probably the one where Rev William K Stewart taught)
- 1838 – graduatd from University of Tennessee, Nashville
- 1843 – graudated from Princeton Theological Seminary, NJ
- 1845 – Oct 28 married Sarah A Powers in Decatur, IL (Sarah was born in NY but joined brother William L Powers in Alabama in 1838 before coming to her brother George Wilson’s in Decatur, IL in 1840.
- 1845 – first church in Morganfield, Kentucky
- 1849 – pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Bloomington, Illinois. The church split during his tenure, reportedly because he preached pro-slavery. Those who left formed a New School Presbyterian Church, later known as the Second Presbyterian Church of Bloomington.
- 1852 – Sister Eliza Ewing (1809-1889) and her husband John Turner Stevenson moved from Christian County, Kentucky to Bloomington, Illinois with their son Adlai Ewing Stevenson I (1835-1914)
- 1859 – retired from pastorate due to problems with his throat and moved to Lake View, Illinois
- 1862-3 – credited with saving McCormick Theological Seminary by raising funds to finance part of building
- 1864 – moved to Decatur, Illinois
- 1880 – died. Funeral at First Presbyterian, Decatur. Rev W W Harsha of Jacsonville, IL offered a prayer; Rev W Priestly and Rev Marshba, Dr Ferris presided
