William Richmond Smith was born May 10, 1752 in Pequea, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to Rev. Robert Smith and Elizabeth (Blair) Smith. He was one of seven children, two of which died in infancy, two became...
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Samuel Stanhope Smith, Princeton College President
The image of Samuel Stanhope Smith shows him in his later years. Archibald Alexander described his impressions of Dr. Smith when they first met at an earlier time in his tenure at Princeton College. I had met Dr. Samuel...
William H. McGuffey, America’s Educator
The cabin pictured in the header is currently in Greenfield Village of the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, where it was relocated from its original site. It is a typical small pioneer cabin with simple notched...
Review, Donald Vedders, Dakota Dawn, One Woman’s Struggle to Survive on a South Dakota Homestead
As immigrants settled the United States and its territories in the nineteenth century they tended to gather in colonies according to their common nationalities and associated languages. This is true of the French...
Colin McIver, Salkehatchie Presbyterian Church
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...
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...
