June 10: Persecution Produces a Presbytery
Some of our past posts published here on This Day in Presbyterian History have given us portions on the life and ministry of Francis McKemie, in the context of the…
December 14: Rev. Charles Beatty
Ready and willing to go for Christ . . . anywhere The young Irish salesman was sparring verbally with the small group of college students. Only he was doing it…
December 13: John Bailey Adger
The following obituary was published in The Presbyterian Quarterly, April 1899 (Volume 13, Number 2), pages 354-355: John Bailey Adger, D.D., died in Pendleton, South Carolina, on the 3d of January…
November 21: Rev. Robert Cooper
This Day in Presbyterian History: Bringing Bibles and Rifles to Worship It was in uncivilized territory where the Rev. Robert Cooper took his first pastorate in central Pennsylvania. Born in Northern Ireland…
August 31: Gov. John McKinly
This Day in Presbyterian History: The First Governor of Delaware The first governor, or at that time called the president of Delaware, was a Presbyterian physician in Wilmington, Delaware. Born…