Born near Lucesco, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, September 15, 1803. He received his early education in a private Academy, and graduated from the Western University of Pennsylvania in 1829. He studied theology...
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Born in the parish of Kilraughts, County Antrim, in 1847. Robert Kerr, his father, was an Ulster farmer. He attended the Academical Institution, Belfast, and then attended Queen's College for three years. There he completed a...
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Son of James R. Willson, born near Elizabeth, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, November 17, 1809. He graduated from Union College in 1829. He studied theology under the direction of his father, and was licensed by the Presbytery...
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Born near Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia, January 6, 1807. His grandparents came from Scotland, in 1774, as members of the Mecklinberg Colony, and settled near Charlotte, North Carolina. His father, a Presbyterian elder...
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Born in Upper Creevaugh, County Donegal, Ireland, November 2, 1803. He received his early education in the private and night schools of the vicinity, and labored upon the farm until his sixteenth year. In 1820, he entered the Academy...
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Born near Franklin, Pendleton County, Virginia (now West Virginia), June 27, 1798. His parents were members of the Associate Reformed Church. He received preparatory course in the Academy of Bedford, Pennsylvania, and...
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Born near Londonderry, Ireland, March 8, 1781. He came to America with his parents, in 1792, settling in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. In early life he manifested a thirst for knowledge, which could not be gained very...
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Born at near Elizabeth, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, April 9, 1780. In 1795, he joined the Associate Reformed Church, but transferred his membership to the Reformed Presbyterian Church in 1798. Graduated with first...
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Born in Saintfield, County Down, Ireland, February 13, 1778. He came with his parents to America in 1791, and settled in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. In 1798, he was engaged as a teacher in Shippensburgh, Pennsylvania, and...
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Born in County Antrim, Ireland, May 21, 1773. Entered the University of Glasgow, Scotland, where he distinguished himself as a scholar, and graduated with the honorary degree of Master of Arts in 1797. He began teaching...
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Born in the Isle of Mull, Scotland, June 12, 1774. His father was a distinguished minister of the Church of Scotland. He came to America, by way of Liverpool, England, in the spring of 1792. Soon after his arrival in New York, he..
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Born in County Antrim, Ireland, October 2, 1768. He received the rudiments of a classical education in the schools of his native country. He graduated from the University of Glasgow, in 1790. He returned to Ireland where he engaged in...
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Born at Bargady, Old Monkland, Lanarkshire, on September 15, 1753, to parents driven into the Secession church on account of some dissatisfaction with the moral character of their minister in the Church of Scotland. He received a country...
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Believed to be the son of John Reid of Chirnside, John Reid was licensed at Douglas on August 12, 1786. On February 13, 1787, a call was presented to him from Perth, but delay was asked for on the ground of the improved...
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Born, probably in 1730, at Wallacetown in Annandale, where his father was a merchant. He was one of the "four Johns." The first extant minutes of Presbytery, February 9, 1758, gives his name as clerk, a post he retained until...
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One of the original "four Johns," nothing is known of his birth and training. He was ordained at Craighead on September 6, 1755, and was specially assigned to the Southern congregation when the Presbytery was divided...
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Born in the parish of Carnwath, Lanarkshire, in 1729. While a student he supported himself by teaching. He first appears in minutes of Presbytery in 1760. After a long examination, extending over many months, he was licensed...
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John M'Millan III, the son of John M'Millan II, was born in 1752, and was licensed on January 4, 1775, at Pentland. On March 19, 1777, he received no fewer than four calls—Inverkeithing, Hamilton, Stirling, and Merse and...
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Born at Eastforth, Carnwath, on July 4, 1729. He was numbered among the "four Johns" of the Reformed Presbytery. He was ordained at Bothwell on September 20, 1750. He first appears in support of his father against the heresy...
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Born at Barncauchlaw, Minigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, in 1669?, and spent his boyhood near his birthplace. He appears to have been raised among the United Societies from his youth, but entered the Revolution Church for a time. Before he...
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