Zelotes Lee Holmes constructed his eight-sided home in Laurens with hand-mixed batches of concrete in 1859. The building has been restored and is currently the Octagon House Apartments. The contribution of the unique...
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Was George Gallup Right?
While taking on the task of cleaning out my many files, paper ones not digital, I ran across a tanned and deteriorating clipping that I had glued in the center of a bright white sheet of typing paper and inserted in a...
Review of God’s Man from Brooklyn by Frank J. Smith
When looking back over the history of American Presbyterianism the biographies of some influential figures have been composed by their descendants. For example The Life of Archibald Alexander was edited by his eldest...
John Blair Smith, A Preacher at Heart
John Blair Smith was born June 12, 1756 in Pequea, Pennsylvania. His mother Elizabeth was the sister of Samuel and John Blair who were the first two ministers of Fagg’s Manor Presbyterian Church (currently Manor...
Robert Smith, Pastor & School Master at Pequea
When the Second General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA) convened in First Church, Philadelphia, May 20, 1790, the retiring moderator, John Rodgers, delivered his sermon from...
John H. Livingston, Father of Reformed Dutch Church in America
The definition of presbyterian is expanded in this biography to include other denominations that are Calvinistic in theology, ruled by elders, and ordered by connectionalism. Presbyterian means most basically rule by...
