William Swan was born July 26, 1802 to William and Catherine (McAlester) Plumer in what is currently Darlington, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of nine children. Before attending college at the age of nineteen, he...
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William J. Hoge, Virginian Minister
William James Hoge was born in Athens, Ohio, August 14, 1825 to Samuel Davies and Elizabeth Rice (Lacy) Hoge. Elizabeth was the daughter of a Presbyterian minister named Drury Lacy. Samuel was a minister and educator at...
Philip Lindsley, Reformer of Antebellum Education
Philip was born December 21, 1786, to Isaac and Phebe (Condict) Lindsley at the residence of his maternal grandmother near Morristown, New Jersey. He prepared for college studying for three years in an academy under the...
Thanksgiving, George Washington, Constitutions & Presbyterians
Over four-hundred years after the Pilgrims celebrated God’s preservation of their lives through a difficult winter and his gracious gift of an abundant harvest in the spring of 1621, the United States will once again...
James Blythe, 1765-1842
James was born to James and Elizabeth Blythe in recently established Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, October 28, 1765. According to W. B. Sprague in Annals of the American Pulpit, young James was receiving a...
Robert H. Reid, 1821-1907
Robert Harden Reid was born July 17, 1821 near Moffattsville, Anderson County, South Carolina. His father Andrew was an elder for nearly fifty years in the Good Hope Presbyterian Church. His mother’s name was Mary...
