August 28: Dr. Harvie Conn

Remembering Dr. Harvie M. Conn [1933-1999] [A tribute written in 1999 by Dr. Mark R. Gornik, upon Dr. Conn's death. We are grateful to Dr. Gornik for granting permission to…

August 27: Gideon Blackburn

Quite a Remarkable Man, Spent for the Gospel. Drawing again from Alfred Nevin's Presbyterian Encyclopedia (p. 75), we read of the Rev. Gideon Blackburn: Gideon Blackburn was born in Augusta…

August 26: William Buell Sprague, D.D.

Today's post is drawn from Alfred Nevin's Encyclopedia of the Presbyterian Church (1884), p. 850: The Long Pastorate of a Great Pastor and Biographer William Buell Sprague was born in Andover,…

August 24: Joseph Huntington Jones

Ashbel Green's Editor and Friend Joseph Huntington Jones, D. D., the brother of Judge Joel Jones, was born in Coventry, Connecticut, on August 24th, 1797. He graduated at Harvard University,…