July 18: Organization of Westminster Theological Seminary
Plans for a New Seminary The “school of the prophets” was lost to Old School Presbyterianism. The great theologians of old Princeton — Alexander, Miller, Hodge, etc. — might still be…
July 6: Ashbel Green
We could talk about the usual biographical information, like the fact that Ashbel Green was born on July 6, 1762, in Hanover, Morris county, New Jersey. Or that Green, at…
July 2: An Important Lecture
It was on this day, July 2d, in 1824, that the Rev. Dr. Samuel Miller delivered what was termed an Introductory Lecture, at the opening summer session of the Princeton…
February 26: Death of Caspar Wistar Hodge, Jr.
Dr. Caspar Wistar Hodge, Charles Hodge Professor of Systematic Theology in Princeton Theological Seminary since 1921, died on Friday morning, February 26, 1937, in the Princeton Hospital, of pneumonia. He…
February 7: Rev. George Smith Boardman, D.D.
The Rev. George Smith Boardman, D.D. Our candidates for this date are few, and information is sparse. Today's entry comes largely from Alfred Nevin's Encyclopedia of the Presbyterian Church, with some…