This month marks the seventh year Presbyterians of the Past has been online. Among the 328 posts more than 170 are biographies including 34 of the first 35 moderators of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church...
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Florida Huguenot Trail
Jean Ribaut (or Ribault) was born about 1520 in the Normandy coastal village of Dieppe. He was a Huguenot as was Admiral of France Gaspard de Coligny (1519-1572) who ordered Ribaut to lead an expedition to explore the...
Alexander T. Rankin, Missionary to Kansas Territory & Denver
Alexander Taylor was born December 4, 1803 to Richard and Isabella (Steel) Rankin in Dandridge, Tennessee. His parents were originally from Augusta County, Virginia and had moved for better opportunities in east...
James F. Armstrong, Chaplain & Peacetime Pastor
Chaplain Armstrong made his way to North Carolina with the Second Maryland marching nearly 500 miles from Philadelphia to camp at Wilcox’s Ironworks just south of what is currently Siler City. He wrote William Churchill...
Collecting the Offering Discreetly
The pictures that follow this introduction show my “The Left Hand Doesn’t Know What the Right Hand is Doing Collection Box” (i.e. Matthew 6:3). It is modeled after the original box I saw in the Presbyterian Historical...
John B. Romeyn, Dutch-American Presbyterian
John Brodhead was born November 8, 1777 in Marbletown, New York, the only son of Dirick and Elizabeth (Brodhead) Romeyn. Dirick was pastor of the united Reformed Dutch congregations of Hackensack and Schraalenburgh in...
