September 17: John James McCook

Born on May 25th, 1845 in Carrollton, Ohio, John James McCook was one of "the Fighting McCooks", a family that had seventeen from its clan who fought for the Union.…

September 12: Presbyterians and the Bible

[excerpted from The Encyclopedia of the Presbyterian Church, by Alfred Nevin (1884), p. 930: The First Bible Printed in New Jersey, by George S. Mott, D.D. As early as the beginning…

August 30: William C. Cattell, D.D.

Drawing again, in part, from Nevin's Presbyterian Encyclopedia, we read today of a man who gave himself unselfishly to the establishment of a school. Twenty Years the President of Lafayette…