The state of South Carolina is rich with Presbyterian and Reformed history because it was settled by Presbyterians from Ireland and Scotland along with French Reformed Huguenots seeking freedom from persecution and a...
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Robert J. Breckinridge, Presbyterian Polemicist
In 1728 Alexander and Jane Preston arrived in the port of Philadelphia, then a decade later settled in the Shenandoah Valley in the region that became Staunton, Virginia. Farming was hard work but it was the way of life...
Henry A. Boardman, August Pastor & Churchman
Henry Augustus was born January 9, 1808 to John and Clarinda (Starbuck) Boardman at Troy on the Hudson River in New York. His mother had grown up a Quaker but when she married John she became a Presbyterian. John had...
Robert Means, 1796-1836
While wandering inside a used book store several years ago I ran across an interesting book about a lesser-known Presbyterian of the past. It was a moment when I thought that the foxed and rubbed volume slid between a...
David J Beale, The Johnstown Flood
David was born the son of Joshua and Milly (Milliken) Beale on July 1, 1835 in the village of Honey Grove which is located about forty-five miles west-northwest of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. While he was a boy his father...
Morton H. Smith, Concerned Presbyterian Churchman
The above photograph was taken during the Second General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) in 1974. It shows Stated Clerk Morton H. Smith at the podium presenting a framed copy of the document “A...
