Dr. John Roach Straton (surname rhymes with "Dayton"; born April 6, 1875 in Evansville, Indiana; died October 29, 1929 in Clifton Springs, New York) was a noted pastor. Straton was born into a Baptist pastor's home, the son of Rev. Henry Dundas Douglas Straton and the former Julia Rebecca Carter of Virginia, but did not become a Christian until he was a teenager and heard the revival preaching of James Hawthorne.
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