The International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures and Products of the Soil and Mine was held in 1876 to commemorate achieving American independence one hundred years earlier. Fortunately, it has come to be known more...
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David Xavier La Far, Charlestonian Huguenot Presbyterian
The Huguenot Church at the corner of Queen and Church Streets in Charleston provides a place of worship for the only extant Huguenot congregation in the United States. Its continued presence is a reminder of the...
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, & Puritans
The header is an illustration from one of the many editions of Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. The picture visualizes the following text as Crusoe recovers...
William S. Plumer, A Father to the Faithful
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...
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...
