I recently finished reading Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770-1830, by Peter E. Gilmore, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. His thesis is that Irish Presbyterians viewed their...
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Overture Regarding Voluntary Societies, 1889
The overture that follows is referred to in the article “Membership Vows Origin, Presbyterian Church in America.” It came as Overture No. 10 before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the...
Thoughts for the New Year, 2019
As the new year 2019 approaches this post includes three brief pieces located in Sterling’s Southern Orator Containing Standard Lectures in Prose and Poetry for Declamation and Recitation in Schools and Colleges...
Robert McCachren, 1798-1885
Robert was born the second son of John and Isabella Cunningham McCachren at the Forks of Brandywine, Chester County, Pennsylvania, September 24, 1798. When he was ten years old his father died leaving his mother with...
Thomas Creigh, 1808-1880
Thomas was born September 9, 1808, to Dr. John and Eleanor Dunbar Creigh the seventh child in a family that would have six sons and four daughters. His paternal ancestors were Protestant Germans who fled their home in...
Robert Scotty Hastings, 1913-2003
When we met I was told that everyone called him Scotty because of his homeland. He looked the part with his thick white hair, matching bushy moustache, glint in his eyes, and ever-present smile. If he had been Irish, I...
