PRINCETON, N. J. 
 
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 BX 8958 .R44 H5 1889 
 
 History of the Presbytery of 
 Shelf..... Redstone 
 
Rev. Ashbel O. Fairchild, D. D. 
 
 Bee Appendix. 
 
HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Presbytery of Redstone 
 
 ORGANIZED BY 
 
 I'he gynod of ]\[eW yorl^ and Philadelphia, gspt. IQ, 
 IJSl, and ifnder its care till VJBS ; 
 
 A PART OF 
 
 THE SYNOD OF VIRGINIA, 1788-1802 ; 
 
 OF 
 
 The Synod of Pittsburg, 1802— 1881 ; 
 
 AND NOW OF 
 
 THE SYNOD OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1881—1889. 
 
 1889. 
 
 Washington, Pa.: 
 
 Observer Book and Job Print, 
 
 1889. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 In obedience to a resolution of the General Assembly of 
 1886, that "Presbyteries be requested to send two copies of their 
 histories to the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly and to the 
 Presbyterian Historical Society, respectively," the Presbytery of 
 Redstone appointed the undersigned a committee to prepare a 
 history and transmit the same to the parties named. In the per- 
 formance of this duty the committee prepared and forwarded the 
 history of the Presbytery to the Stated Clerk of the Genera! 
 Assembly, and also to the Historian of the Synod of V^irginia. 
 In preparing the history they did not hesitate to draw largely 
 from all reliable sources within their reach. It was read before 
 the Presbytery in the fall of 1887 and approved, and the Presby- 
 tery directed that the history and the accompanying histories of 
 the several churches secured by the committee, be published in 
 permanent form if satisfactory arrangements could be made. 
 
 These arrangements having been completed, the committee 
 have issued this volume. A history of woman's work in the 
 Presbytery, a list of candidates, licentiates and ministers, and the 
 dates of their connection with the Presbytery as far as could be 
 ascertained, and a few personal sketches in connection with the 
 phototypes, are added. 
 
 The committee cannot forbear expressing regret that this 
 little book gives such an inadequate view of the pioneer work of 
 this earliest of the Presbyteries west of the Alleghenies. They 
 
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 became more and more impressed with its defects as the prepara- 
 tion of it was drawing to a close. But the imperative demands 
 of other duties forbade the research necessary to gather addi- 
 tional materials and properly sift and arrange them, or even to 
 re-arrange what were already in their possession. They send it 
 out hoping that in some small measure it may preserve facts and 
 give a better understanding of the faithful, self-sacrificing and 
 consecrated labors of the Fathers, and strengthen the faith and 
 increase the consecration of those who are building on these 
 foundations laid so deep and broad by the laborers who rest from 
 their labors and "their works do follow them." 
 
 JOHN M. BARNETT, 
 JOHN C. MELOY, 
 EBENEZER FINLEY, 
 
 Committee. 
 
HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 ORIGIN OF NAME. 
 
 Redstone Presbytery is said to have taken its name from the 
 rocks in the banks of Redstone Creek, one mile below Browns- 
 ville, Pa. It is supposed that a vein of coal in that locality was 
 set on fire at an early day, either by the Indians or by friction 
 caused by a land slide. In course of time the fire died out leav- 
 ing the banks reddened by its heat. They present a very pecul- 
 iar appearance and are quite an object of interest to any one 
 fond of natural curiosities. 
 
 BOUNDARIES AND EARLY SETTLEMENT. 
 
 The Presbytery originally was practically bounded on the 
 east by the Allegheny mountains, on the north by Lake Erie, on 
 the south by Virginia and on the west by the setting sun. It 
 embraced what was called the "Great West," the vastly larger 
 part of which was at that time a "terra incognita." 
 
 The Synod in passing the order for the new organization as- 
 signed no geographical limits, and named no churches save only 
 Laurel Hill and tlie four Ministers west of the Allegheny Moun- 
 tains, one of whom was in Westmoreland county and the other 
 three in Washington county, which was organized as a count)' 
 shortly after the act was passed. 
 
 Previous to its organization the first parts of the country 
 settled, were portions of what is now embraced in the counties of 
 Washington, Fayette, Westmoreland and Allegheny, together 
 with the regions along the Monongahela and Ohio rivers and 
 
2 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 their branches and later along the Allegheny to the shores of 
 Lake Erie and westward to the Muskingum, Sciota and Cuyaho- 
 ga rivers. The first settlers were of Scotch-Irish descent, who 
 had come from the east taking up lands, clearing out farms and 
 building log houses until such times as they were able to pro- 
 cure more comfortable homes. They were a sturdy people, with 
 the same kind of blood in their veins which had flowed at the 
 Battle of the Boyne in the days of William the Third. They 
 brought with them the Assembly's Catechism, the Confession of 
 Faith and their Bibles; and withal a good degree of religious 
 faith, intelligence and fervor. There w^as a population here very 
 early in the last century. In the year 1738 "John Caldwell in 
 behalf of himself and many families of our persuasion who were 
 about to settle in the back parts of Virginia, induced the Synod 
 of Philadelphia to appeal to Governor Brooch, of Virginia, for 
 countenance and protection in their proposed settlement." "The 
 request was granted and they went to settle on the western side 
 of our great mountain." Smollet, in his history of England, 
 says that in 1760 there were 4,000 settlers in this region. 
 
 EARLY MISSION.\RY EFFORTS. 
 
 Rev. Chas. Beatty, the grandfather of the late Rev. C. C. 
 Beatty, D. D., is said to have preached the first protestant ser- 
 mon in this part of the country. It was a Thanksgiving sermon 
 and was preached on the 25th of November, 1758, at Fort Du- 
 quesne, which had just been evacuated by the French. Two 
 years later the Rev. Messrs. Alexander and Hector Allison were 
 sent by the direction of the Synod of Philadelphia to go with the 
 Pennsylvania forces to explore the country and see what might 
 be done in the way of missionary efforts. In the 3'ear 1766, 
 Revs. Chas. Beatty and George Dufifield were sent by the Synod 
 on a similar errand "to explore the frontier .settlements and to a.s- 
 certain the condition of the Indians." They preached a number 
 of times going as far west as the Muskingum river. Soon after 
 this the Rev. Mr. Anderson was .sent by the Synod to visit this 
 region with a promise of "20 shillings" for every Sabbath he 
 .should preach on the other side of the Kittochtinny mountains. 
 
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 In the year 1769, the Presbytery of Donegal, by the direction of 
 Synod, supplied the western frontier with ten Sabbaths' preach- 
 ing — but just where their labors were performed we do not know. 
 It is probable that the)' preached in the bounds of some of the 
 old Centennial Churclies which are still vigorous congregations 
 within the bounds of Redstone Presbytery. 
 
 EARLY MINISTERS. 
 
 In the year 1771, the Rev. James Finley came to this wes- 
 tern frontier and did some excellent missionary work. He was a 
 native of Ireland, forty years of age, a fat, florid, nervous little 
 man, very hardy and ready for any labor, having already an ex- 
 perience of nineteen years in the ministry. He had been in the 
 country in 1765, again in '67, doing some secular work in the 
 Dunlap's Creek region — but he returned again by direction of 
 Synod and supplied in Ligonier or that region for two months in 
 '71 and '72. He also labored for some time in that part of the 
 country called "The Forks of Yough," organizing, it is said, on 
 the same day, in the year 1778, the Churches of Rehoboth and 
 Round Hill. He brought his family west in 1783, and two years 
 later became pastor of the two churches just mentioned, continu- 
 ing in that relation till the time of his death, Januar}^ 6, 1795. 
 
 Rev. James Power, D. D., was the first minister who came 
 to stay and grow up with the country. He was a tall, graceful, 
 genteel young man, clear, methodical and evangelical as a 
 preacher, in the 29th year of his age, a native of Pennsylvania 
 and a graduate of Princeton. He came in 1774, as a licentiate, 
 was ordained by the Presbytery of New Castle, "sine titulo," in 
 1776, and sent back "to the western parts of this Province." He 
 proved to be a most effective missionary, organizing in 1774, 
 while he was yet a licentiate, so it is claimed, the Dunlap's Creek 
 Presbyterian church — the oldest organization west of the inonri- 
 tains. The authority for this is a statement said to have been 
 made by Mr. Power himself While we are not disposed to dis- 
 pute the correctness of the claim, we are inclined to think there 
 must have been some ordained minister present to set apart the 
 Elders to their work in the church. Dr. Power also organized 
 
4 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 the Sewickley Church in 1776, and soon after, it is beheved, he 
 organized the Mt. Pleasant Church at its present location, two 
 miles north of the present town of Mount Pleasant. He was 
 pastor of the two churches named until 1787, when he Avas re- 
 leased from Sewickley, serving the other church until the year 
 1 817, when on account of infirmity he gave up his charge. He 
 died in 1830. 
 
 Rev. John McMillan, D. D., was the second man to stay 
 upon the ground. He was born at Fagg's Manor in 1752, grad- 
 uated at Princeton in 1772, and was licensed by the Presbytery 
 of New Castle in 1774, at the age of twenty -two. He first visit- 
 ed this region in 1775, staying but a short time. It is said that 
 during this visit he organized the churches of Pigeon Creek and 
 Chartiers, the latter now in the Presbytery of Pittsburg and the 
 former in the Presbytery of Washington. After going back East 
 he married. He returned to this region in '76 and in '78 brought 
 his family, crossing the mountains on pack-horses. He was pas- 
 tor of the two churches he organized till his death, November 
 16, 1833. He was a tall, rough-looking man, with a voice re- 
 sembling thunder. Dr. D. X. Junkin said of him, "Dr. McMil- 
 lan's voice, even when your present speaker sat under him in 
 1829-31, was strong, clear and powerful in the tones of denunci- 
 ation, but often meltingly tender. He almost made you hear the 
 vibration of Sinai's thunder, and yet when setting forth the love 
 of Jesus, his voice would mellow to the tenderest tones. At the 
 Communion season he was peculiarly effective. Then his heart 
 and eyes and voice were like one fresh from Gethsemane and 
 Golgotha." We presume that his subsequent life and labors will 
 be treated of at length in the history of Pittsburgh Presbytery, 
 within who.se bounds Dr. McMillan did his greatest work, and 
 which includes Chartiers Church, where his remains lie buried. 
 
 Rev. Thaddeus Dodd, a descendant of a New England 
 family, a man in the prime of life, after two years pastoral labor 
 at Patterson's Creek. Va., (1777-1779) came to this region in 
 September of the latter year and began his labors in the Upper 
 and Lower Ten Mile Churches, where he continued up to the 
 time of his death in 1793. He was a gentle, earnest man, a fine 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 5 
 
 scholar, especially noted as a mathematician and very attractive 
 as a preacher. He was born near Newark, N. J., March 7th, 
 1740. He graduated at Princeton in 1773, was licensed to preach 
 by the Presbytery of New York in 1775, and in October, 1777, 
 was ordained by the .same Presbytery "sine titulo." Washington 
 Presbytery will doubtless give the details of his work. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Smith, was born in Nottingham, Md., in 1736, 
 was licensed to picach by the Presbytery of New Castle, August 
 5th, 1767, after graduating at Princeton, 1764. He was ordained 
 by the same Presbytery, April 19th, 1769 and installed pastor of 
 Lower Brandy wine Church, Del. He remained here until 1772. 
 In 1774 he accepted a call to the Second church in Wilmington, 
 where he labored till 1778, when he resigned on account of the 
 distracted state of the country. In 1779, the 44th year of his 
 age and the nth of his ministry, he came to this "Western Wil- 
 derness," and in 1780 became pastor of Buffalo and Cross Creek, 
 both now in the bounds of Washington Presbytery. A revival 
 began in his church very soon after his arrival which never ceas- 
 ed till the day of his death. As a preacher he was very impres- 
 sive both in the terrific and the pathetic. He dealt largely in the 
 terrors of the law, so much so that some of the irreverent called 
 him "Hell Fire Smith." Rev. Samuel Porter says of him, "I 
 never heard a man who could so completely as Mr. Smith, un- 
 bar the gates of Hell and make me look down into the dark, bot- 
 tomless abyss, or like him could so throw open the gates of 
 Heaven and let me glance at the insufferable brightness of the 
 great white throne." Mr. Smith died April 19, 1792. 
 
 OKGANIZ.ITION OF REDSTONE PRESBYTERY. 
 
 The Act for the organization of the Presbytery of Redstone 
 was adopted by the Synod of New York and Philadelphia in 
 session at Philadelphia, Pa., May 16, 178 1. It directed that the 
 Presbytery should meet at Laurel Hill Church (now in Fayette 
 county. Pa.,) on the third Wednesday of September at 1 1 o'clock 
 A. M., (September 19th). 
 
 The meeting was held at the appointed time, but at Pigeon 
 Creek instead of Laurel Hill, because the incursions of the sav- 
 
6 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 ages into Washington county rendered it very undesirable for the 
 ministers there to leave their homes. The record is as follows : 
 U. P. P. S., the Revs. Messrs. John McMillan, James Power and 
 Thaddeus Dodd. Elders, John Neil, Demas Lindley and Patrick 
 Scott. Absent, the Rev. Joseph Smith. 
 
 The second meeting failed for want of a quorum. The 
 third meeting ar Sewickley also failed "by reason of the incur- 
 sions of the savages" into Washington county. The next and 
 subsequent meetings were held without interruption. 
 
 The Presbytery continued with great zeal for a period of 12 
 years to push forward her work within the immense boundaries 
 described before — or up to the formation of the Presbytery of 
 Ohio in 1793. In the meantime, however, May 28th, 1788, the 
 Synod of New York and Philadelphia, having completed the re- 
 vision of the public standards of the church and having adopted 
 them, arranged for the organization of a General Assembly. To 
 accomplish this, the old Synod was divided into four Synods, 
 viz. : New York and New Jersey, Philadelphia, Virginia and the 
 Carolinas. Redstone was set off in order to form the Synod of 
 Virginia. This change of relation, however, did not make any 
 change on the boundary lines of the Presbytery up to the time 
 noted above — 1793. During these years the Presbytery received 
 a number of ministers and organized various churches. Rev. 
 James Dunlap was received from the Presbytery of New Castle. 
 He served in 1782 the church of Dunlap's Creek and subse- 
 quently he became the pastor of Laurel Hill Church, continuing 
 in that relation until 1803, when he was made President of Jeffer- 
 son College. 
 
 In 1783 Rev. John Clark was received into the Presbytery 
 and shortly afterwards was installed as pastor of Lebanon and 
 Bethel, continuing in that relation till his death in 1797. 
 
 Mr. Alexander Addison, a licentiate from Scotland, applied 
 in 1785 to be taken under the care of the Presbytery. His ex- 
 aminations were not entirely satisfactory and he was not received, 
 though leave was given him to preach to the church of Wash- 
 ington until the next meetinsr and at that meeting until the meet- 
 
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 iniT of Synod, after which his name is not mentioned. He studi- 
 ed law and became an eminent jurist and judge. 
 
 Then we find on the records the name of Rev. James 
 Hughes, who was one of the four young men hcensed in 1788. 
 He became pastor of the churches of Short Creek, now^ West 
 Liberty, West Va., and Lower Buffalo. Afterwards he removed 
 to the Presbytery of Miami and became the President in 1818, of 
 what is now Miami University. 
 
 We find on the roll the name of Rev. Samuel Porter, who 
 was licensed by the Presbytery November 12th, 1789, and be- 
 came pastor of the churches of Congruity and Poke Run in 
 1790; of the latter he was pastor until 1798, and of the former 
 congregation he continued as pastor up to the time of his death, 
 September 22d, 1825. He was 66 years old. 
 
 Rev. Joseph Patterson, a man famous in his day, belonged 
 at this time to the Presbytery. Indeed he was licensed by the 
 Presbytery in 1788. He was pastor of the church of Raccoon 
 for 27 years, dying February 4th, 1832, aged 80 years. 
 
 Rev. George Hill, born in York county, March 13th, 1764, 
 was licensed in 1791. He became pastor of Fairfield, Donegal 
 and Wheatfield. He was afterwards released from Wheatfield 
 and took instead Ligonier, a new congregation organized be- 
 tween Fairfield and Donegal. He finally devoted his whole time 
 to Fairfield, where he remained till his death in 1822. 
 
 Rev. Jacob Jennings, grandfather of the late Rev. S. C. Jen- 
 nings, D. D., was received from the Dutch Reformed Church 
 and made pastor of Dunlap's Creek Church. Rev. David Smith, 
 father of the author of "Old Redstone," was licensed in Novem- 
 ber, 1792, and became pastor first of George's Creek and Tent 
 Churches, and afterwards of Rehoboth and Round Hill Churches. 
 He died August 14th, 1803. A writer says, "The Presbytery of 
 Redstone was composed of able, devoted and self-denying men. 
 They were men for the times. Although commencing in the 
 wilderness, they were not forgetful of the prospective wants of 
 the country. They laid the foundations deep and broad. The 
 influence they exerted in the planting of the church is felt at the 
 
8 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 present day, not only in the region where they labored but in the 
 regions beyond." 
 
 PRESDYTERY OF OHIO. 
 
 In the year 1793 the Presbytery of Ohio was organized by 
 the Synod of Virginia, cutting off all that territory lying west 
 of the Monongahela river, including what is now Washington 
 Presbytery and that part of Pittsburgh Presbytery west of the 
 Monongahela river and south of the Ohio. The ministers in the 
 new Presbytery were John McMillan, Joseph Patterson, James 
 Hughes, John Clark and John Brice, together with all the 
 churches west of the Monongahela river. The boundaries now 
 were the Monongahela river on the west, Lake Erie on the 
 north, the Allegheny mountains on the east and a part of Vir- 
 ginia on the south. Plow far the Presbytery extended into Vir- 
 ginia is not definitely known — probably as far as Presbyterians 
 could be found. Within this newly adjusted boundar)^ the Pres- 
 bytery continued to work till the year 1801, when the Synod of 
 Virginia erected the Presbytery of Erie. This organization was 
 granted on the unanimous request of the members present from 
 the Presbyteries of Redstone and Ohio, at the meeting of the 
 Synod of Virginia, in session at Winchester, Va., October 2d, 
 1 801, and included Rev. Messrs. Thos. E. Hughes, Wm. Wick, 
 Samuel Tait, Joseph Stockton and Robert Lee, together with all 
 the congregations north and northwest of the Ohio and Alle- 
 gheny rivers "unto the place where the Ohio river crosses the 
 western boundary of Pennsylvania." (Act of Synod in History 
 of Presbytery of Erie, by Dr. Eaton). 
 
 SYNOD OF PITTSBURGH. 
 
 In the year 1802, by the act of the General Assembly, the 
 Presbytery of Redstone was set off from the Synod of Virginia, 
 and with her two daughters was organized into the Synod of 
 Pittsburgh. Thus Redstone assisted in the organization of two 
 Synods and the General Assembly and is now in the third Synod. 
 It would make our history too long and tedious to speak of all 
 the ministers whose names have appeared on her roll. 
 
 In 1788, when the Synod of Virginia was formed, there 
 were on the roll eight ordained ministers, viz.: James Finley, 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 9 
 
 John Clark, Joseph Smith, John McMillan, James Dunlap, James 
 Power, Thaddeus Dodd and Samuel Barr. 
 
 We have not the means of knowing accurately the names of 
 all the churches, as there are no statistical reports, and in the 
 minutes, congregations and preaching stations are not distin- 
 guished. Twenty-four places are mentioned as supplicating or 
 applying for supplies. Some of these we know were organized. 
 When the Synod of Pittsburgh was organized, there were twelve 
 ministers in the Presbytery, viz. : James Power, Mt. Pleasant, Pa.; 
 Joseph Henderson, Ebcnezer and Blacklick; James Dunlap, Lau- 
 rel Hill; Jacob Jennings, Dunlap's Creek and Little Redstone; 
 John McPherrin, Salem; Samuel Porter, Congruity; George Hill, 
 Fairfield and Donegal; Wm. Swan, Long Run and Sewickley; 
 David Smith, Round Hill and Rehoboth; James Adams, George's 
 Creek and Union; Francis Laird, Poke Run and Plum Creek; 
 Robert Steel, pastor elect, Pittsburgh. The vacant churches 
 able to support a pastor were Pittsburgh, Greensburg and Unity; 
 Pitt Township and McKeesport ; Morgantown and Middletown. 
 The churches unable to support a pastor were New Providence, 
 Uniontowm, Tyrone, Sandy Creek Crossings, Clarksburg, Ty- 
 gart's Valley, Somerset, Turkey Foot, VMieatfield and Stoney 
 Creek. About this time some of the churches were visited with 
 a wonderful revival accompanied by what were called "The Fall- 
 ing Exercises." These were often observed in churches now in 
 Washington county. Rev. Robt. Johnson who was an eye wit- 
 ness of this work in the Round Hill Church, gives the following 
 account of it : 
 
 "I have seen men and women in solemn attitude, pondering 
 the truths which were presented, fall in a moment from their 
 seats or off their feet as helpless as though they had been shot 
 and lie from ten to fifteen or twenty minutes or longer as motion- 
 less as a person in a sound sleep. At other times the whole 
 frame would be thrown into a state of agitation as seemingly to 
 endanger the safety of the subject; and yet in a moment this agi- 
 tation would cease and the person arise in the full possession of 
 all his bodily senses and take his seat composed and solemn 
 without the least sensation of pain or uneasiness." 
 
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 A very deep impression was made upon the people by these 
 exercises and the very old, as long as they lived, spoke of them 
 with the most profound reverence. In these meetings very many 
 were brought into the fold of Christ, who were pillars in the 
 house of the Lord. The question as to how the persons who 
 were the subjects of these remarkable experiences conducted 
 themselves is one of deep interest. 
 
 A very old lady whose memory ran back to those times 
 once said to the writer, "Some of them proved to be very good 
 Christians and were useful in the church and others soon went 
 back to the world and became as wicked as ever." In some 
 churches there was a continuous revival lasting a number of 
 years. Revivals began at an early day. 
 
 In 1778 the settlers in what is now Washington county were 
 driven into Vance's Fort by the Indians. Then God's spirit was 
 poured out in copious showers. "From 1781 to 1787," says the 
 historian, "a most extensive work of grace was experienced in the 
 churches of Cross Creek, Upper Buffalo, Chartiers, Pigeon Creek, 
 Bethel, Lebanon, Ten Mile, Cross Roads and Mill Creek, during 
 which more than a thousand persons were brought into the 
 Kingdom of Christ." 
 
 "From 1795 to 1799 another series of gracious visitations 
 were enjoyed by the churches generally, throughout Western 
 Pennsylvania, extending to the new settlements north of Pitts- 
 burgh." (Dr. Eaton's History of the Presbytery of Erie, p. 405.) 
 These reached on into the new century as we have seen. The 
 Communion seasons were usually occasions of very great inter- 
 est. People came on horseback and in wagons not infrequently 
 as far as twenty miles and lodged with the members who were 
 nearer until the services were concluded. Often has the writer 
 heard one who had been present in these seasons speak of the 
 delightful social Christian intercourse enjoyed. 
 
 EDUCATION. 
 
 Redstone Presbytery was a pioneer in Christian Education. 
 The early pastors were deeply impressed with the importance of 
 raising up a native ministry. The outpouring of the Spirit had 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. II 
 
 led young men to consider the duty of preaching Christ. But 
 there were no available facilities for education. The pastors 
 though burdened with the labor needed to help support their 
 families, with the care of planting and fostering the infant churches 
 in the wilderness and looking after the lost sheep of the house of 
 Israel, heroically undertook this new work of educating the 
 young. 
 
 FIRST SCHOOLS. 
 
 In 1782 Thaddeus Dodd built a little log cabin and opened 
 a classical and mathematical school which continued for three 
 and a half years, till he sold his farm. In 1785 Jo.seph Smith 
 began a school at Buffalo in his study, for young men, who were 
 preparing for the ministry. In Dodd's Academy, amongst others 
 were Jas. Hughes, John Brice, Daniel Lindley, Robert Marshall, 
 John Hanna and David Smith. When Mr. Dodd's school was 
 suspended Messrs. Hughes, Brice and perhaps others went to 
 Buffalo to Joseph Smith's school, in 1785, where they were join- 
 ed by Joseph Patterson, Jas. McGready and Samuel Porter. 
 This school was continued with success until Mr. Smith's failing 
 health compelled him after a few years to give it up and his 
 scholars passed into the Log Cabin School at Chartiers. 
 
 The exact time when Dr. McMillan began his school at 
 Chartiers has been in dispute and also the character of the school. 
 Dr. J. I. Brownsbn, who has thoroughly examined the discussion 
 pro and con, suggests that Dr. McMillan's school may have been 
 opened in 1780 and included Latin and Greek in its design as far 
 as there was demand for them, and when two years later Mr. 
 Dodd's distinctly classical school was started, such instruction 
 may have been surrendered to him for the time being, in view of 
 the sufficiency of one such school to meet the demand at the 
 time. The "Log College" survived the others, supplying classi- 
 cal and even theological training till after the Academy was start- 
 ed in Canonsburg in 1791, when the students in it were passed 
 over to that institution. (See Pres. Cen. Convention, p. 74.) 
 
 On September 24th, 1787, a charter was granted for an 
 Academy in Washington, Pa., by an Act of the Legislature of 
 Pennsylvania. The same Act devoted for the uses of the Acad- 
 
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 emy 5,000 acres of land north of the Ohio river, chiefly in what 
 is now Beaver county. The charter was secured mainly through 
 the influence of Dr. McMillan and his two Elders, Judges Alli- 
 son and McDowell, who were members of the Legislature. In 
 1789 the Academy went into opei'ation under the care of Mr. 
 Dodd, who had given up his Academy on the Ten Mile. 
 
 In 1 791 the burning of the Court House in Washington, 
 the difficulty of obtaining a suitable building, the donation of a 
 lot of ground by Col. John Canon in Canonsburg and the gift 
 of a considerable sum of money by the same gentleman turned 
 the tide in favor of the establishment of another Academy in the 
 last named place. A school was opened there and the first reci- 
 tation in Latin was made by Robt. Patterson and Mr. Wm. Rid- 
 dle. Rev. Messrs. McMillan, Smith, Henderson and others in- 
 terested in the new institution were present and at the request of 
 Dr. McMillan, Mr. Henderson opened and Mr. Smith closed the 
 exercises with prayer. That first recitation was made "under the 
 shade of some sassafras bushes." In that year, 1791, the Pres- 
 bytery of Redstone overtured the Synod of Virginia on the edu- 
 cation of pious young men for the ministry. The Synod re- 
 sponded by recommending the establishment of two schools, one 
 in Rockbridge county, Va., under the Presidency of Rev. Wm. 
 Graham and the supervision of the Presbyteries of Lexington 
 and Hanover and the other in Washington county. Pa., under 
 Dr. McMillan and the supervision of the Presbytery of Red- 
 stone. Canonsburg was chosen as the place and the Academy 
 chartered in 1794. 
 
 EARLY COLLEGES. 
 
 The former institution grew into Washington College at 
 Lexington, Va., and the latter into Jefterson College, being char- 
 tered as a college in 1802. In 1-806, Washington Academy, after 
 varied fortune, became Washington College. The history and 
 work of these institutions, their rivalry, their struggles with pov- 
 erty, the efforts and sacrifices of their friends, the efforts for en- 
 dowment, the plans for union in deference to the demands of the 
 Christian public, form most interesting chapters in the education- 
 al history of the region, but we can not dwell upon them. In 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 3 
 
 1865 the efforts for union were partially successful; a plan was 
 adopted, a charter obtained, giving the three higher classes to 
 Canonsburg, and the Freshmen, the Preparatory and the Scien- 
 tific departments to Washington. In 1869 this was abandoned, 
 a complete union formed and the united College was located at 
 Washington and Jefferson Academ}' at Canonsburg. Convenient 
 buildings, located in a beautiful campus and an endowment of 
 $250,000 have been secured. The life of the College is assured, 
 but more buildings and larger endowment are needed. 
 
 MISSIONARY CH.^RACTER. 
 
 The Presbytery was essentially a missionary Presbytery. 
 Its members not only preached to their own people but they vis- 
 ited waste places, sought out destitute ones and organized them 
 into churches and watched over them till pastors could be ob- 
 tained. The labor performed was wonderful, especially when it 
 is remembered there were no public conveyances of any kind 
 and traveling was on horse-back or on foot, without roads, 
 bridges or ferries, and without comfortable stopping places at 
 night. Often, says the historian, has the preacher been com- 
 pelled to swim the creek or river on Sabbath morning and preach 
 in his wet clothes and then hasten on to fill another appointment. 
 Perhaps after a two days' ride he could not cross the swollen 
 stream and was compelled to retrace his steps without delivering 
 his message. (Hist. Erie Pres., p. 12). Yet their success was 
 great and churches seemed to spring up everywhere. Such was 
 the growth that in October, 1801, the Synod of Virginia, in ses- 
 sion at Winchester, organized the Presbytery of Erie, as we have 
 seen, from the Presbyteries of Redstone and Ohio. And in May, 
 1802, the General Assembly organized from Redstone, Ohio and 
 Erie, the Synod of Pittsburgh, mother, daughter and grand- 
 daughter. 
 
 At the first meeting of the Synod of Pittsburgh, in Pitts- 
 burgh, September 29th, 1802, it was resolved (ist) "that the Synod 
 of Pittsburgh should be styled the Western Missionary Society. 
 (2d) That the object of the Missionary Society is to diffuse the 
 knowledge of the Gospel among the inhabitants of the new set- 
 
14 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 tlements, the Indian tribes and if need be among some of the in- 
 terior inhabitants where they are not able to support the Gospel." 
 Redstone Presbytery entered heartily upon this work of the Syn- 
 od, aiding the missionary efforts among the Wyandotte In- 
 dians, at Sandusky; the Senecas, near Buffalo; the Ottawas, 
 near Maumee and the Cornplanters on the head-waters of the 
 Allegheny. 
 
 CONTRIBUTIONS. 
 
 But even before this something had been done in the way of- 
 contributions. We find that on the 20th of Augu.st, 1789, Pres- 
 bytery ordered "that collections be raised from the several con- 
 gregations under the care of this P. b. y. agreeably to the Act 
 of General Assembly, and that the money collected be brought 
 to our spring meeting," (p. 60, min. Redstone.) This was prob- 
 ably to bear the expenses of Commissioners to the General As- 
 sembly, and, indeed, in the earlier history much of the energy of 
 the Presbytery, in the way of raising money seems to have been 
 devoted to this object and to getting arrears in pastors' salaries 
 settled up. But at a meeting held November 12th, 1789, we find 
 this record: 
 
 "Agreeably to a recommendation of the Synod of Virginia 
 for raising contributions for the support of missionaries, the 
 P. b. y. agrees to make contributions in the several congrega- 
 tions for that purpose as soon as convenient and that report of 
 success in the same be brought in at next spring meeting," (min. 
 p. 62). Then, April 22d, 1790, the Presbytery makes inquiry 
 and finding that some congregations had not attended to the 
 matter directs them to take collections and pay the same to Mr. 
 McMillan, Treasurer, (p. 65.) This record says the object was 
 to pay missionaries to vacant congregations. In September fol- 
 lowing, the order was renewed, (p. 70.) October 19, 1796, the 
 order was again renewed and the money ordered to be forwarded 
 to the Treasurer of the Commission appointed by the Synod of 
 Virginia. It was again renewed in 1799, (p. 130). In June, 1799, 
 Presbytery "injoined its members to exert themselves in endeav- 
 oring to raise collections for the support of missionaries and to 
 report at our next meeting," (p. 149). 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 5 
 
 On p. 152 is the record that the following sums were col- 
 lected for the Missionaries, viz.: 
 
 £. s. d. 
 Salem, .... 2 2 6 
 Little Redstone, . . i 3 io>^ 
 
 Long Run, ...18 6% 
 Round Hill, . . • 3 I5 i 
 
 Unity, .... I 10 8>^ 
 
 Sewickley, . . . . i 16 o 
 Rehoboth, . . . 5 12 6 
 Other records follow showing that the Presbytery was alive 
 to Missionary work and their eftorts were the more commenda- 
 ble when we remember the scarcity of money in early days. It 
 is worthy of note that by the efforts of the Synod of Pittsburgh, 
 in which the Presbytery took such an active part, was sown the 
 seed which has grown and ripened into the great work which the 
 church to-day is carrying on at home and abroad in the name of 
 the Lord. Note should be made also of the work of the Pres- 
 bytery in aiding young men of limited means to obtain an educa- 
 tion. 
 
 In Joseph Smith's school, at Buffalo, there were four young 
 men, Jas. Hughes, John Brice, Jos. Patterson and Samuel Porter, 
 aided by the ladies of Buffalo, Bethel, Chartiers and Cross Creek 
 Churches, who furnished them a part at least of their clothing. 
 So far as we know this was the first Educational Society in the 
 Presbytery. (See Dr. Smith's Hist, of Jefferson College, Oct., 
 1 791.) The Presbytery in approving the action of the Synod of 
 Virginia in establishing the two schools, or Seminaries, as the 
 Synod termed them, recommended as follows: "The P. b. y. 
 therefore order their members to use their best endeavors to ob- 
 tain contributions for the above purpose and put them in the 
 hands of Mr. McMillan, who is appointed Treasurer, as soon as 
 possible, and of their diligence therein to render account at our 
 next Spring meeting," (p. 81.) Dr. McMillan faithfully attended 
 to this duty and in pursuance of it attended the meetings of Red- 
 stone Presbytery for eleven years after Ohio Presbytery was 
 formed as faithfully as he did his own. 
 
1 6 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 For a period of 30 years the work of the Presbytery was 
 quiet, yet faithful, under the ministrations of such good men as 
 Dr. Power, Samuel Porter, Rev. Geo. Hill, Wm. Swan, Wm. 
 Speer, Francis Herron, Joseph Stockton, Wm. Wylie, Robt. 
 Patterson, Robt. Johnson, Jas. Graham, Jas. Guthrie, Wm. John- 
 ston, Elisha P. Swift, Ashbel G. Fairchild, John Reed, Aretas 
 Loomis, A. O. Patterson, Jos. Henderson, Francis Laird, Robt. 
 Lee, A.sa Brooks, David Barclay, Geo. Van Eman, John McPher- 
 rin, Thos. Hunt and Thos. Davis. If it were not that we must 
 be brief, it would be interesting to give a sketch of the work per- 
 formed by some of these faithful servants of Christ, whose names 
 and memories are still fragrant in the church. 
 
 DRS. SWIFT AND HERRON. 
 
 The names of Francis Herron and Elisha P. Swift are inter- 
 woven with the history of the Church in Pittsburgh and Alle- 
 gheny. They did a work there in laying the foundations of Pres- 
 byterianism which will never be forgotten. We doubt not that 
 the historians of these churches will do justice to these godly 
 men. 
 
 Samuel Porter did a work in the Congruity Church and 
 Geo. Hill in Fairfield and Ligonier Churches which have made 
 their names memorable in Blairsville Presbytery. 
 
 MEMBERS OF PRESBYTERY. 
 
 We refer to two or three who served the church grandly in 
 the bounds of the Redstone of to-day. Robt. Johnston was one 
 of these. He was of English extraction, a lineal descendant of 
 Oliver Cromwell, born August /th, 1774. He was educated at 
 Canonsburg and Dr. McMillan's "Log College," licensed by the 
 Presbytery of Ohio in 1802, came to this Presbytery from the 
 Presbytery of Erie and settled in Round Hill and Rehoboth con- 
 gregations in 1817, continuing for five years in that relation. He 
 was a successful pastor and a vigorous preacher. During his 
 pastorate these churches enjoyed some precious revivals. 
 
 Ashbel Green Fairchild, D. D., was another of Redstone's 
 noble workers. He was born in New Jersey, May ist, 1795, 
 graduated from Princeton in 181 3, licensed by the Presbytery of 
 New Jersey, April 1 8 16, received under the care of Redstone 
 
PRESBYTERV OF REDSTONE. 
 
 17 
 
 Presbytery, April 21st, 181 8, and July ist following, was ordain- 
 ed as an evangelist. July 2d, 1822, he was settled as pastor at 
 George's Creek, Morgantown ajid Greensboro, at a salary of 
 5333-00. In '27 he resigned Morgantown and Greensboro and 
 was settled over the Tent Church, giving it half the time and 
 George's Creek the other half, till April, 1854, from which time 
 till his death, June, 1864, he gave his whole time to the Tent 
 Church. He was a faithful and successful pastor. Of wide and 
 varied scholarship, of genial temper, simple, dignified, yet unas- 
 suming, tried and true as a friend, he was greatly beloved by 
 his people and esteemed by his brethren. The historian of the 
 Tent Church has given a most admirable description of this good 
 man. It will be found further on in this book. But we must 
 not tarry longer with these personal sketches. 
 
 The first Statistical Report recorded in the minutes of Red- 
 stone Presbytery is as follows, (p. 234, in 1809): 
 
 
 Total in Communion, 
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 NAMES 
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 Congruity .... 
 Poke Run • • • 1 
 Plumb Creek . . / 
 
 Beulah 
 
 Rehoboth .... 
 Round Hill . . . 
 Laurel Hill . . . 
 
 Tyrone 
 
 Rehoboth (New) . 
 
 Licking 
 
 1st Pres. Cong. Pitts 
 
 125 
 
 136 
 122 
 
 120 
 90 
 20 
 33 
 45 
 
 8 
 7 
 
 7 
 15 
 2 
 8 
 6 
 
 3 
 
 I 
 
 1 
 
 18 
 
 25 
 2 
 
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 2 
 
 9 
 
 2 
 2 
 
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 144 
 122 
 
 126 
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 I 
 
 7 
 2 
 
 I 
 
 45 
 56 
 20 
 
 22 
 20 
 II 
 
 15 
 18 
 
 48 
 
 57 
 20 
 
 22 
 27 
 13 
 16 
 18 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
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 Laurel Hill and Tyrone 
 Brown-sville and Dunlap's Creek . 
 George's Creek and Union 
 Clarksburg and French Creek 
 Jefferson and New Providence . 
 Mt. Pleasant and Sewickley . 
 Long Run and McKeesport 
 Greensburg and Unity . 
 Somerset and Jenner . 
 Morgantown, S. S. . . . 
 Middletown, S. S. . . . 
 Uniontown, S. S. . 
 
PRESIJVTEKV OF KEDSTONE. I9 
 
 TRANSFER OF CHURCHES. 
 
 In the year 1822 the Synod of Pittsburgh set off the 
 churches of Pittsburgh to the Presbytery of Ohio, and in 1825, 
 three years later — in a small measure compensated for tlie 
 loss by transferring to the Presbytery of Redstone the churches 
 of Jefferson and New Providence. 
 
 BLAIRSVILLE PRESBVTERV. 
 
 Up till 1830 the Presbytery held its north-east border un- 
 disturbed. But at the October meeting" of that year, it request- 
 ed Synod to divide the Presbytery by a line starting at the Mon- 
 ongahela river below McKeesport and running north-east to the 
 Pittsburgh and Stoystown turnpike and thence along the pike to 
 the top of the Allegheny mountains, the ministers and churches 
 north of the pike to be called the Presbytery of Blairsville, leav- 
 ing it optional with the ministers through whose charges the 
 road passes to which of the two they shall belong. (Min. p. 
 409.) Subsequently Greensburg and Donegal, now called Pleas- 
 ant Grove, were transferred to Blairsville, and the churches of 
 Somerset and Jenner at first in Redstone were set over to Blairs- 
 ville, but after a time restored to Redstone. 
 
 NEW AND OLD SCHOOL. 
 
 The division into Old and New School affected Redstone at 
 Greensburg, and at Mt. Pleasant and Pleasant Unity, which at that 
 time were one organization. A part, the larger part, went off 
 under the leadership of Rev. Samuel Montgomery, at that time 
 pastor of Mt. Pleasant, to the New School body. A church was 
 organized in the Mt. Pleasant (Middle) Church and another at 
 Pleasant Unity, under the care of the Presbytery of Pittsburgh. 
 After thirty-two years of separate existence, in the year 1869, 
 when the Old School and the New School Assemblies united and 
 the terms Old School and New School were dropped as titles, 
 two congregations under the care of Redstone took the place of 
 the three, viz.: Mt. Pleasant and Pleasant Unity. Subsequently 
 a new church building in the town of Mt. Pleasant was erected 
 and soon after the "Reunion Church," of Mt. Plea.sant, was organ- 
 ized. 
 
20 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 WEST VIRGINIA PRESBYTERY. 
 
 The only subsequent change in our boundary was brought 
 about by the organization of the Presbytery of West Va., on the 
 south, by which we lost all south of the Pennsylvania line. With 
 this single exception the Presbytery has occupied substantially 
 the same ground for about fifty-seven years. 
 
 NEW CHURCHES. 
 
 During these years some new and important churches have 
 been organized, viz.: West Newton, Belle Vernon, Dunbar, Mt. 
 Pleasant Reunion, Scottdale, Fairchance, Leisenring and Mt. 
 Vernon. 
 
 MEMBERS OF PRESBYTERY. 
 
 During this half century the Presbytery has had on her 
 rolls not a few of the excellent of the earth, among whom we 
 may mention the names of Rev. A. O. Patterson, D. D., Rev. N. 
 H. Gillett, Rev. Joel Stoneroad, Rev. Watson Hughes, Rev. 
 John McMillan, D. D., — who rest from their labors — Rev. Sam- 
 uel Wilson, D. D., long the pastor of Dunlap's Creek, who is 
 waiting calmly for the end in Fairfield, Iowa, and Rev. J. R. 
 Hughes, who is still faithfully serving the Master in Dayton, 
 Ohio. In the Presbytery is Rev. John McClintock, pastor of 
 New Providence, who has stood in his lot in that field, faithful and 
 beloved since July, 1839, and Rev. Hugh O. R.oseborough, who 
 has served the church of the "Old Frame," George's Creek, since 
 1854. During these years, v/hich make up the later life of the 
 Presbytery, we have nothing of unusual character to chronicle. 
 Possibly every church within the bounds of the Presbytery has 
 enjoyed precious revivals of religion and again has experienced 
 seasons of spiritual coldness. Pastors have been released to go 
 to other fields of labor and worthy successors have come to fill 
 their places. Some strong churches have been weakened for a 
 time by strife and division or by immigration and death and have 
 grown strong again or remain in a crippled condition. Others 
 by revival or immigration have grown and are strong — some 
 which were in a healthy state and able to support pastors are 
 about the same still — and a few which had but a name to live 
 fifty or sixty years ago arc still breathing — not exactly dead yet, 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 21 
 
 but comatose, with tlic probabilities that in the course of nature 
 they will join two or three others and be numbered among the 
 dead. 
 
 We have at this day some eight or nine churches which date 
 their birth before the organization of the Presbytery and are 
 older than the General Assembly. 
 
 We believe the Presbyterian church has not ceased to be the 
 leading denomination in this region. In the early days it stood 
 here almost alone; but now there are many others nobly engaged 
 with it in the work of the Master. With our advancement in 
 numbers, wealth and influence, we hav-e made advancement in 
 benevolence and in sj'stematic church work. Now our attention 
 is not so much absorbed in efforts to raise the Commissioners' 
 fund to defray the expenses to the General Assembly, or to se- 
 cure the pa)'ment of the arrears of Pastors' salaries. The whole 
 work of the Church at home and abroad in bringing the Gospel 
 to every creature occupies time and thought and prayer and ef- 
 fort. We are tr)M'ng to build on the foundations our fathers laid 
 in faith and prayer and self-denial and toil, to maintain, enlarge 
 and .strengthen the institutions they founded and hand them 
 down fitted as well to do the work of the future as they were to 
 do the work of the times when we received them. . The brethren 
 of Redstone Presbytery are striving to cultivate well the field in 
 which God has placed them, to care for the strangers that God is 
 bringing into their midst, to extend their influence as far as they 
 are able to "the regions beyond," and so leave the inheritance re- 
 ceived from the fathers undiminished in its glory. The last 
 statistical report to the General Assembly will show the present 
 condition of the churches and something of the progress of the 
 Presbytery. 
 
 PRESBYTERIAL CENTENNIAL. 
 
 The history would be incomplete without a notice of the 
 Centennial Celebration of the Presbytery, held in Uniontown, 
 Pa., September 22d, 1881. This celebration was held at Union- 
 town, rather than Laurel Hill, because of its greater accessibility 
 and superior accommodations. The Synod of Pittsburgh ar- 
 ranged to hold its eighty-first and last meeting at the close of the 
 
22 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 celebration. Most of the members of the S}'nod were present 
 from the beginning. 
 
 After appropriate music, Rev. John M. Barnett, pastor of the 
 Presbyterian church of Connellsville, dehvered the address of 
 welcome at 1 1 a. m. "In the afternoon Rev. Wm. F. Hamilton, 
 D. D., of Washington, Pa., formerly pastor of the Presbyterian 
 church of Uniontown, gave a 'Brief History of the Founders of 
 Redstone Presbytery, Ministers and Elders,' in an exceedingly 
 clear and forcible style." After the singing of a hymn, Rew S. 
 J. Wilson, D. D., since gone to rest, set forth with great vivid- 
 ness and eloquence, "The growth and influence of Presbyterian- 
 ism, west of the Alleghenies during the past century." He was 
 followed by Rev. S. J. M. Eaton, D. D., of the Presbytery of 
 Erie, who gave interesting reminiscences of Redstone Presbytery. 
 The evening exercises were held in the Presbyterian Church, 
 Hon. J. K. Ewing presiding. Addresses were made by repre- 
 sentatives of the Presbyteries occupying territory once covered 
 by Redstone Presbytery. The venerable Rev. C. C. Beatty, D. 
 D. LL. D., represented Steubenville Presbytery; Rev. Wm. O. 
 Stratton, the Presbytery of Mahoning; Rev. Anson Smythe, D. ■ 
 D., the Presbytery of Cleveland; Rev. Wm. M. Robinson, the 
 Presbyter)^ of Allegheny; Rev. Wm. McMichael, the Presbytery 
 of Clarion. Rev. Wm. V. Milligan, D. D., of the Presbytery of 
 St. Clairsville and Hon. John Trunkey, of the Presbytery of 
 Erie, were unable to be present. 
 
 At 9 A. M., on the 23d, the exercises were resumed on the 
 Fair Grounds. Rev. W. H. Jeffers, D. D. LL. D., of the Western 
 Theological Seminary, was to have discussed "The Future of 
 Presbyterianism and its part in moulding the Nation," but severe 
 illness in his family prevented his presence. His place was occu- 
 pied by Rev. John Gillespie, D. D., now Junior Secretary of the 
 Board of Foreign Missions and Rev. S. F. Scovel. D. D., now 
 President of Wooster University, O. Both made excellent ad- 
 dresses. After singing and prayer, at the request of Rev. Adam 
 Torrence, who was shortly after called home, the 23d Psalm was 
 sung and the benediction pronounced and the Centennial closed. 
 
 In its final action, the Synod of Pittsburgh, after extending 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 23 
 
 heart}' thanks to various parties, added "also to the Presbytery of 
 Redstone for the invitation extended to the other Presb}'teries to 
 share the enjoyments and benefits of the exceedingly interesting 
 and profitable celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of 
 the formation of that first Presbytery west of the Allegheny 
 mountains." 
 
 THANK OFFERINGS. 
 
 During the sessions of the Synod the following resolution 
 was adopted : "Whereas, the last meeting of the Synod of Pitts- 
 burgh occurs in connection with the Centennial celebration of 
 the foundation of Redstone Presb\'tery, therefore. Resolved, 
 That as a monument of this memorable occasion, the churches 
 in the bounds of the Synod contribute $3,000 to found in the 
 Western Theological Seminary, a scholarship to be named the 
 Redstone Centennial Scholarship." The following Committee, 
 one from each Presbytery, was appointed to suggest the means 
 for carrying out this resolution, viz. : Rev. Messrs. W. W. 
 Moorhead, C. V. McCaig, Wm. P. Moore, W. F. Hamilton and 
 J. B. Reed. The committee reported a plan which was adopted, 
 but was subsequently so modified and changed, that under the 
 management of Rev. C. V. McCaig, D. D., it resulted in the en- 
 dowment of a Professorship of Elocution in the Seminar)' in the 
 sum of $10,000 and the founding of the Redstone Centennial 
 Scholarship in the sum of $3,000. Of this sum $6,000 were 
 contributed by Redstone Presbytery — and of this two members 
 of Uniontown Church gave one half 
 
 In the territory occupied by Redstone Presbytery in 1788, 
 there are now, in 1888, the Presbyteries of Allegheny, Blairs- 
 ville, Butler, Clarion, Erie, Kittanning, Pittsburgh, Shenango, 
 Washington and West Va., in the Synod of Pennsylvania, and 
 Cleveland, Mahoning, St. Clairs\ille and Steubenville, in the 
 Synod of Ohio. 
 
 The eleven Presbyteries in the Synod of Pennsylvania have 
 340 ministers, 32 licentiates, 58 candidates. 453 churches, 67,299 
 members, 64,182 Sabbath School members. The}' gave in 1887 
 to Home Missions, $57,357; to Foreign Missions, $74,654; Edu- 
 cation, $12,942; to Sabbath School work, $7,819; Church Erec- 
 
24 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 tion, ^10,913 ; Relief Fund, ^48,984 ; Freedmen. ,$15,388 ; Sus- 
 tentation, ;^3,77i ; Aid to Colleges, ;$ 18,671 ; General Assembly, 
 ;$5, 398.69; Congregational, $574,686; Miscellaneous, 525.000. 
 
 The four Presbyteries in Ohio have 126 ministers, 4 licen- 
 tiates, 18 candidates, 162 churches, 24,047 members, 24,312 Sab- 
 bath School members, and gave to Home Missions, $25,279; 
 to Foreign Missions, $24,641 ; Freedmen, $2,756; Sustentation, 
 ;^7o6; Aid for Colleges, $4,845 ; General Assembly, $2,188.10; 
 Congregational, $2,035.01 ; Miscellaneous, $27,975. In 1888 
 Presbytery reported 26 ministers, 34 churches, i licentiate, 5 can- 
 didates; members, 4,239; Sabbath School members, 3.989; Home 
 Missions, $2,359.00; Foreign Missions, $3,809.00; Educational, 
 $325.00; Sabbath School work, $456.06; Church Erection, $1,- 
 094; Relief Fund, $3,353.00; Freedmen, $717.00; Sustentation, 
 $282.00; Aid for Colleges, $656.00; Congregational, $47,172.00; 
 Miscellaneous, $1,281.00. Total, 466 ministers, 36 licentiates, 76 
 candidates, 615 churches, 91,346 members, 88,494 Sabbath 
 School members, and gave to Home Missions, $82,606.00; to 
 Foreign Missions, $99,295.00; Freedmen, $18,184.00; Sustenta- 
 tion, $4,477; Aid to Colleges, $13,516.00; General Assembly, 
 $758,619.00; Congregational, $778,187.00; Miscellaneous, $52,- 
 975.00. 
 
 Compare all this with the little band that was organized in 
 1 78 1, or that stood on the picket line west of the Alleghenies in 
 1788, and we can only exclaim, "Lo what hath God wrought." 
 To his name be all the praise. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 25 
 
 HISTORY OF CHURCHES. 
 
 DUNLAP'S CREEK. 
 
 BY REV. H. H. M MASTER. 
 
 Dunlap's Creek Presbyterian Church was organized in the 
 year 1774, nearly two years previous to the Declaration of Amer- 
 ican Independence, by Rev. James Power, D. D. The only 
 record known of its organization is that Dr. Power said he or- 
 ganized it in September, A. D., 1774. It comprised sixty-one 
 members and the following ruling elders, viz.: Charles Mc- 
 Clean, Andrew Frazer, Robert Baird, John Parker, Samuel Ter- 
 ence, David Reeder, Ebenezer Finley and William Frame. 
 
 The few Presbyterian families who had emigrated from East- 
 ern Pennsylvania and Old Virginia and settled in this vicinity 
 were visited in 1765 by Mr. Finley, a member of New Castle 
 Presbytery. He was one of the first ministers of the Gospel 
 who crossed the Allegheny mountains in quest of a western field 
 of missionary labor. He first blew the Gospel trumpet in this 
 then unbroken wilderness. He finally settled at Rehoboth and 
 Round Hill, where he enjoyed a long and successful pastorate. 
 He left three sons who became ruling elders in Rehoboth — Jo- 
 seph, William and Michael ; the eldest, Ebenezer, became a 
 ruling elder in Dunlap's Creek. The Rev. Drs. James Power 
 and John McMillan, among the earliest and noblest pioneers of 
 the Presbyterian Church, visited and preached the Gospel here. 
 Dr. Power brought his family here in the fall of 1776 and preach- 
 ed as stated supply for some time, but finally settled at Mount 
 Pleasant and Pleasant Unity. The first installed pastor of Dun- 
 
26 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 lap's Creek was Rev. James Dunlap, who was installed, October 
 15th, 1782, and continued pastor seven years, when he resigned 
 this branch and gave all his time to Laurel Hill. After 
 a short period of supplies from Presbytery, the Rev. Jacob Jen- 
 nings, M. D., of the Dutch Reformed Church of New York and 
 New Jersey, was called and installed as the second pastor in 1792, 
 continuing to preach here and at Little Redstone until 181 1, 
 when, on account of age and infirmity, he resigned the charge, 
 but continued to preach occasionally until February 17th, 181 3, 
 when he was called to the eternal rest and reward promised by 
 the Chief Shepherd to the faithful pastor. He was a practical 
 physician and did good service in both his professions. His 
 ashes now rest in the adjoining cemetery. 
 
 The ruling elders during Dr. Jennings' pastorate were Hon. 
 Charles Porter, Ebenezer Finley, Sr., Robert Baird, Enoch 
 French and George Gallaher. 
 
 The third pastor of Dunlap's Creek was Rev. William John- 
 ston, whose charge embraced also the Presbyterian Church of 
 Brownsville. He became co-pastor with Dr. Jennings in 1812 
 and in 181 3 Dr. Jennings died and Mr. Johnston assumed the 
 pastorate, continuing in that relation until October or November, 
 1839, making a pastorate of over twenty-six years. He was 
 called to his reward, December 31st, 1841. His dust, with that 
 of his wife and eight children, rests in the old Dunlap's Creek 
 cemetery. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Wilson, D. D., was invited to occupy the pul- 
 pit from January ist, 1840, and was installed pastor by "the Pres- 
 bytery of Redstone, November 17th, of the same year. He 
 continued pastor of the church until May ist, 1869; from that 
 time he supplied the pulpits of Dunlap's Creek, New Salem and 
 McClellandtown, until June 20th, 1869, when he removed to Illi- 
 nois. For nearly thirty years he enjoyed a prosperous pastorate 
 in this charge and left many warm friends behind. 
 
 The ruling elders in 1840 were Ebenezer Finley, Sr., Hon. 
 Charles Porter, Aaron Baird, George Chalfant, Moses B. Porter, 
 Cephas Porter and Ebenezer Finley, Jr. Others were added 
 during Dr. Wilson's pastorate, viz.: Samuel Linn, Finley Chal- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 2/ 
 
 fant, James Evving, and at another time, Ebenezer T. Gallaher 
 and Joshua V. Gibbons; of these Ebenezer Finley, Finley Chal- 
 fant and E. T. Gallaher, still remain the wise and beloved coun- 
 sellors of this congregation. 
 
 The Rev. James P. Fulton received and accepted a call from 
 this congregation on November 3d, 1869, (McClellandtown was 
 still included in the charge) and he continued pastor until Octo- 
 ber, 1878. During the pastorate of Mr. Fulton there were added 
 to the Board of Elders on October 31st, 1875, Messrs. Johnston 
 Vankirk and E. Hayden Baird. When Dr. Wilson resigned in 
 1869, there were 183 members in the church and during Mr. Ful- 
 ton's pastorate of nine years there were added to the member- 
 ship 157. 
 
 On the I ith of December, 1878, the congregation of Dun- 
 lap's Creek made a call for the services of Rev. W. G. Nevin, 
 and on March i ith, 1879, he was installed pastor of said church 
 and continued in that office until April 17th, 1883. There were 
 added to the membership during his pastorate thirty-two. It 
 was a prosperous and pleasant pastorate but not long. Ill health 
 disabled him for the work in so large a field, which he resi"-ned 
 for a less extended one. 
 
 The present pastor was called to the field on May 14th, 
 1883, and installed August i6th, of the same year. Of the work 
 of the past four years we have but little to say. During that 
 time there were added to the eldership in 1885, Messrs. H. W. 
 Finley, John E. Finley and Clark B. Campbell, and during these 
 four years past of the present pastorate there have been added to 
 the membership eighty-seven, of whom seventy-two were by pro- 
 fession and fifteen by letter. 
 
 The house of worship still occupied by the congregation of 
 Dunlap's Creek was built of stone in 18 14 and took the place of 
 the old log church which was erected a short time after the or- 
 ganization of the congregation. The old stone church has un- 
 dergone many changes in the past seventy-three years, having 
 been several times repaired and remodeled, but like all things 
 earthly it began to show marks of decay. The tooth of time 
 
28 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 had gnawed much of the pointing out of the wall and weakened 
 the roof structure until it was no longer safe. 
 
 In the spring of 1887 the people concluded to honor the 
 Lord by making the dear old church almost new, leaving the old 
 walls standing as they were erected in 18 14, only adding a little 
 more to them by raising the gables higher and thus giving a 
 more modern appearance to the roof They put up a new frame 
 ceiling, renewed the doors and windows, repainted the walls and 
 replaced nearly all the old with new and substantial material, so 
 that now we have practically a new house of worship, and yet it 
 is the Old Stone Church of Dunlap's Creek, re-dedicated on the 
 25th of August, 1887. 
 
 But the history of Dunlap's Creek would not be complete 
 were we to make no mention of her eldest and only daughter, the 
 church of New Salem. Many years ago one of the good and 
 brave elders of this Church, Ebenezer Finley, Sr., planted a Sab- 
 bath School in the little village of New Salem, which, by the 
 blessing of God, has became an important ally of the old church. 
 A commodious and substantial brick church was erected, which 
 was dedicated in February, 1853. The New Salem branch has 
 for years been a prosperous and promising field and takes hon- 
 est and commendable pride in bearing half of the financial bur- 
 den of the Dunlap's Creek charge. This congregation, however, 
 has not furnished her quota of ministers to the actual work of the 
 Lord. We can only find a record of six from this large congre- 
 gation in more than a hundred years. To the work of those six 
 the congregation may look with humble pride and congratula- 
 tion. 
 
 It gives us pleasure to record that one of our brave and no- 
 ble daughters, Miss Maggie Baird, some three years ago laid her 
 life and talents upon the altar of God's service and with a holy 
 consecration of all to her Redeemer, went out to labor for His 
 glory and the salvation of perishing souls in our mission field in 
 Canton, China. Thus we have recorded a few of the historical 
 facts connected with the rise and progress of the Lord's work in 
 this part of his vineyard during the past 113 years. May the 
 next century by the blessing of God be more fruitful of good, 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 29 
 
 more honoring to God and more blessed in winning souls into 
 His kingdom is the prayer of your unworthy historian. 
 
 [The pastorate of Rev. H. H. Mc Master ended on the last 
 of September, 1888, by his resignation and removal to Iowa, to 
 enter on a field of labor in the bounds of Ft. Dodge Presbyter}'.] 
 
 SEWICKLEY. 
 
 BY REV. A. W. EMMONS. 
 
 Sewickley Presbyterian Church was organized by the Rev. 
 James Power in the year. 1776 — probably in November — soon 
 after the arrival of himself and family in Western Pennsylvania, 
 or what was then called the "back woods." Two years before, 
 in the summer of 1774, he had spent three months in this new 
 country engaged in missionary work among the settlers. At 
 that time he frequently preached where the first Sewickley 
 church building was erected, "one mile and a half north of the 
 present structure." In the spring of 1779 he became the regu- 
 lar pastor of Sewickley and Mt. Pleasant congregations. He 
 continued the pastor of these united congregations until August 
 22d, 1787, when he was dismissed from Sewickley Church. Of 
 the faithfulness of this servant of Christ there can be no ques- 
 tion. Many who knew him during their lives testified of his 
 earnest, intelligent presentation of gospel truth both in the pul- 
 pit and the family circle. At his regular visits the children were 
 examined in the Shorter Catechism, "and the young people and 
 heads of families were examined as to their understanding of the 
 doctrines taught in the Catechism and the Scripture Proofs" and 
 "the whole was closed with an address suited to the occasion and 
 with prayer." 
 
30 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 After the retirement of Dr. Power from this church, the 
 pulpit remained vacant for six years and two months, but on 
 October i6th, 1793, the Rev. Wm. Swan was installed pastor of 
 the united congregations of Sewickley and Long Run, and la- 
 bored for twenty-five years, until October i8th, 18 18, when he 
 resigned his pastoral charge. 
 
 "In the year 1804 and for some years afterwards this con- 
 gregation was visited with special outpourings of the Spirit of 
 God" and considerable numbers were added to the church. 
 
 After the dismissal of Mr, Swan the church was dependent 
 for preaching upon supplies for two years and a half; but this 
 state of things was happily terminated in the spring of 1821, by 
 the ordination and installation of Mr. A. O. Patterson, who on 
 the 1 8th day of April began his labors as pastor of the united 
 congregations of this church and Mt. Pleasant. This connec- 
 tion was a pleasant and a profitable one, and continued until Oc- 
 tober 8th, 1834, when it was severed by the resignation of Dr. 
 Patterson, because both churches had grown so much that each 
 felt able to support a pastor. 
 
 In April, 1836, Sewickley gave a call to Rev. Wm. Annan, 
 who was installed in the following June; but owing to the "weak 
 and debilitated state of his health" he was compelled to resign 
 in April, 1838. The vacancy this time was short, as in Decem- 
 ber of the same year Rev. J. B. McKee was installed pastor; he 
 remained in this position for three years and six months. Dur- 
 ing his stay several members in the south-eastern part of the 
 congregation obtained their certificates. Mr. McKee went with 
 them and organized the Harmony Church, at Reagantown, seven 
 miles south-east of Sewickley church building. His successor 
 in Sewickley was the Rev. Richard Graham, who was installed 
 probably in the spring of 1845, and was dismis.sed some time in 
 the year 1 850. Mr. Graham, although a man of some eccen- 
 tricities of character, was a fine scholar and an able preacher, and 
 was generally successful in his labors. He went from here to 
 the State of Ohio, where he died not long after leaving Sewickley. 
 
 After Mr. Graham left. Rev. Watson Hughes supplied the 
 pulpit for a time. During his stay several members secured cer- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 3 I 
 
 tificates from the church to organize a church at West Newton, 
 which was done, January 8th, 185 i. Mr. Hughes retired with 
 them and became the pastor of the new organization. 
 
 In 1852, Rev. Cyrus Riggs became the pastor and faithfully 
 preached the Gospel and taught from house to house the doc- 
 trines of the Bible until the tenth day of April, 1861, when ex- 
 pediency required him to make a change in his field of labor. 
 
 It was two and one-half years before another minister was 
 secured; at the end of that time, November 7th, 1863, the Rev. 
 \Vm. L. Boyd was installed, but only remained pastor until April 
 4th, 1867, because the congregation having been weakened by 
 the withdrawal of several members felt unable to continue the 
 payment of his salary. 
 
 The vacancy of the pulpit this time lasted a year and five 
 months and was terminated October 3d, 1868, by the installation 
 of Rev. J. K. Andrews as pastor; but this connection only lasted 
 until April 26th, 1871, when Mr. Andrews severed his connec- 
 tion with the church. It was during his stay that the organ was 
 introduced into the church. 
 
 Now occurred a longer vacancy, succeeded by a shorter 
 pastorate than any which had taken place in the history of this 
 church. For six years and seven months this congregation was 
 without the ministrations of a regular pastor, dependent upon 
 supplies for preaching; the most of these supplies were good and 
 able men who performed their duties faithfully. Among them 
 may be mentioned Rev. J. H. Stevenson, who, it is safe to say, 
 never neglected a known duty. Mr. Stevenson supplied the pul- 
 pit for about one year. During his stay he received about thirty 
 members, more than had been received by any minister of this 
 congregation in the same length of time. Rev. Geo. K. Scott 
 also labored for a time and received a call to become pastor, but, 
 some differences arising in the congregation, the Presbytery, on 
 meeting to install him, deemed it best not to do so and the va- 
 cancy continued. 
 
 Rev. \V. G. Nevin, then of the U. P. Church, was called. 
 He accepted and was installed pastor, December 17th, 1877, but 
 he only remained one year, being dismissed, December 24th, 
 
32 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 1878, to accept a call to the Dunlap's Creek Church. Mr. Nevin 
 is now pastor of the church in Sharon, Pa., and is favorably re- 
 membered by the members of Redstone Presbytery. His suc- 
 cessor was Jacob Ruble, a licentiate, who was ordained and in- 
 stalled pastor in 1880. He preached faithfully, meeting with 
 much apparent success in bringing- souls to Christ, until October, 
 1 88 1, when he was suspended from the Gospel Ministry and 
 from membership in the church by the Presbytery. Another va- 
 cancy of two years now occurred, during which the church suf- 
 ered much from removals and death. 
 
 On the nth of October, 1883, the Rev. J. D. Owens be- 
 came the pastor of the church, but for reasons satisfactory to 
 himself he resigned, and was dismissed April 29th, 1885. It was 
 during his short stay of one year and seven months that the 
 parsonage was built. It is a frame building, containing six 
 rooms, a pantry and closets, and is well arranged for a small 
 family. It stands on a lot of about one and a half acres adjoin- 
 ing the church lot. 
 
 After the departure of Mr. Owens a vacancy of two years 
 and one month occurred. During this time the church was rare- 
 ly supplied up to the month of July, 1886, when Mr. A. W. Em- 
 mons, the Presbyterial Missionary, a licentiate, was engaged to 
 preach every other Sabbath, which he continued to do until 
 April 1st, 1887, when he began preaching regularly every Sab- 
 bath, and was ordained and installed pastor, May 26th, 1887. 
 
 While the church has experienced many severe trials, which 
 have brought it very low at times, God has graciously brought 
 it safely through them all, and has given it many manifestations 
 of his favor, so that at the present time there is good promi.se 
 of a future career of usefulness. 
 
 The present membership, as reported, is one hundred and 
 five, but these figures will have to be reduced some because of 
 the removal of several members. The Sabbath School has sixty 
 members and seems to be doing a good work among the child- 
 ren and young people. A prayer meeting was established in 
 May of the present year and is regularly attended by from fifteen 
 to forty persons. The present session is composed of five mem- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 33 
 
 bers, as follows : David Hunter, John Martin, Jacob Edward 
 Robertson, Thomas L. Robertson and David D. Bair; the four 
 last named were installed, June 26th, 1881. The congregation 
 has had three buildings since its organization. The first one is 
 thus described in "Old Redstone:" "Constructed entirely with 
 the axe, no saw, or plane, or even a hammer to drive a nail were 
 used, for naiis or iron in any shape were not employed The roof 
 was clap-boards, kept in their places by logs laid upon them 
 and the doors were of the same kind, fastened together with 
 wooden pins. The windows were small openings cut in adjacent 
 logs and glazed with paper or white linen, oiled with hog's lard 
 or bear's grease. The seats were logs, cleft in the middle and 
 rai.scd a suitable height on blocks. Such was the original house 
 in which Dr. Power preached in Sewickley congregation. It 
 stood about one mile and a half north of the present place of 
 public worship, on the road leading from Alarkle's mill toward 
 Pittsburgh, about half way between the big and little Scwick- 
 lies." 
 
 This continued to be the place of worship until 1787 or af- 
 ter. During that year the south side of the congregation de- 
 cided, as they had a large majority of the congregation and many 
 of them many miles to go, to build a house on the south side of 
 the creek; this being opposed by the members on the north side, 
 much trouble arose and was the cause of Dr. Power resigning 
 his care of the congregation. A compromise between the two 
 sides was finally effected by the south side promising to build a 
 bridge at what is now known as Bell's mill. 
 
 The second building was built of logs and was about sixty 
 feet in length by thirty in width. There the congregation met 
 and worshiped until 1832, when the pi'cscnt building was erected. 
 This being of stone, si.xty feet long by forty feet wide and thirty 
 feet to top of roof, and having a wall twenty-four inches in thick- 
 ness, was a work of great magnitude in those days, and required 
 the labors of many men for several months. In the meantime 
 the congregation worshiped in the adjoining lot, some sitting in 
 a temporary board tent, in which the pulpit stood and others 
 resting on the ground beneath the shade of large oak trees. 
 
34 PRKSBYTF.RY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 The present building is in good condition and bids fair to 
 remain a comfortable place of worship for many years to come. 
 At one time, before the bridge was built, in the early spring, a 
 heavy rain so raised the water that the creek could not be forded 
 on the Sabbath. Dr. Patterson, who was then pastor, mounted a 
 stump, the people seated themselves on saddles, logs and stones, 
 sung God's praise and listened to the sermon delivered by the 
 faithful ambassador of Christ. 
 
 MOUNT PLEASANT. 
 
 BY REV. GEO. P. DONEHOO. 
 
 In a paper of this nature, which must necessarily be very 
 brief, it is a difficult matter to know what to omit. Only those 
 events which serve as mile-stones shall be pointed out. In 
 1774, James Power, a minister of twenty-nine years, "crossed the 
 Allegheny mountains and spent three months in what are now 
 Westmoreland, Allegheny, Washington, Fayette and Greene 
 counties, Pennsylvania." In 1776, probably. Dr. Power moved 
 with his family to Dunlap's Creek, near what is now Browns- 
 ville. During his residence at this place he occupied himself 
 with missionary labors, preaching in the various settlements 
 about him and in organizing new churches. At this time he 
 probably organized the church of Mount Pleasant. In 1779 he 
 became the regular pastor of the Mount Pleasant and Sewickley 
 congregations. It was at this time that the settlement of various 
 other ministers in the then "west," led to the formation of the 
 "Redstone" Presbytery, which was organized at Pigeon Creek, 
 September 19th, 1781. The pastorate of Dr. Power continued 
 until 1 8 17, when he resigned on account of infirmity brought on 
 by old age. He remained among the people of his charge until 
 his death in 1830. 
 
 The two congregations of Mount Pleasant and Sewickley 
 were united in one pastorate under Rev. Andrew O. Patterson. 
 
PRE.SHVTEKV OF KED.STOXE. 35 
 
 Fie was ordained and installed, April iSth, 1821. He was a 
 <^reat worker among the young people of his charge. The mem- 
 bership of the united congregations in 1829 was about 300. In 
 the year in which he resigned it was over 400. While he was 
 pastor of these churches, houses of worship were built in the 
 towns of Mount Pleasant and Pleasant Unity and the old Mid- 
 dle church was re-built. In 1 834 Dr. Patterson resigned his charge 
 to labor in the interests of the Board of Home Missions. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Montgomery succeeded Dr. Patterson in 1835. 
 In 1840, after the division of the General Assembly took place, 
 the church of Mount Pleasant became divided into the Old and 
 the New School branches. About tA\o-thirds of the congrega- 
 tion followed Mr. Montgomery into the New School branch. 
 This left about sixty members and six elders who remained in 
 the Presbytery of Redstone and the Old School branch. The 
 New School branch was very prosperous during this time. Mr. 
 Montgomery remained its pastor until 1844 or '45- The Old 
 School congregations of Mount Pleasant and Greensburg united 
 in one charge and called Mr. James I. Brownson in 1841. He 
 continued pastor until December, 1848, when he resigned to take 
 charge of the Presbyterian Church of Washington, Pa. The 
 other pastors of the New School branch during the division were 
 Rev. Messrs. Porter, Cochrane and Sparks. We have no means of 
 finding out the exact time when these men were at Mt. Pleasant. 
 Rev. John M. Barnett took charge of the Old School branch of 
 the congregation, April 1st, 1862 and resigned October 6th, 1869. 
 The membership at the beginning of his pastorate was 121 ; fifty- 
 three were received on profession of faith, thirty-nine by letter, 
 sixty-three were dismissed and twenty died. The first pastor after 
 the reunion in 1869 was Rev. John McMillan, D. D., who became 
 pa.stor in April, 1870. His charge consisted of the re-united 
 churches of Mt. Pleasant and Plea.sant Unity. On June i6th, 
 1870, the corner-stone of the new church in Mt. Pleasant town 
 was laid. This building was completed on September ist, 1872. 
 Dr. McMillan was at this time released from the charge of the 
 church of Pleasant Unity and preached at the Reunion and the 
 Mt. Pleasant churches on alternate Sundays. April 25th, Pres- 
 
36 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 bytery in session at Mt. Pleasant, divided Mt. Pleasant church 
 and organized Mt. Pleasant Reunion church, by setting over 170 
 members, and William B. Neel, William Giffen and John D. Mc- 
 Caleb, ruling" elders — Alexander H. Stricklerand Absalom Schall 
 were elected deacons. Shortly after this time the church of 
 Mt. Pleasant requested that Dr. McMillan give them the 
 whole of his time, as did also the Reunion church. In 1873 Pres- 
 bytery dissolved the pastoral relation existing between Dr. Mc- 
 Millan and the church of Mt. Pleasant and left him pastor of the 
 Reunion church. At the beginning of his labors in the Mt. 
 Pleasant church in 1 870 it had 241 members. Of these 107 be- 
 longed to the Old School branch and 134 to the New School. 
 During his pastorate 126 were received into the communion of 
 the church. At the time of his dismissal, there remained 160. 
 Rev. W. F. Pawing was ordained and installed pastor of this 
 church on June 4th, 1874. "On the 9th of October, 1874, the 
 Presbyterian church of Mt. Pleasant held a Centennial celebra- 
 tion commemorative of the first Presbyterian preaching in the 
 church and neighborhood. The adjoining congregations of 
 Pleasant Unity and the Reunion Memorial church — both daugh- 
 ters of the Mt. Pleasant church — were present by invitation and 
 participated in the celebration." Addresses were made by Rev. 
 J. I. Brownson, D. D.. Rev. J. M. Barnett, Rev. John McMillan, 
 D. D., and others. Rev. W. F. Ewing resigned in the spring of 
 1884 to travel for the benefit of his health. Rev. M. H. Bradley 
 was installed pastor of the church, October 7th, 1884, and re- 
 signed in the spring of 1886. The present pastor, Rev. George 
 P. Donehoo, was ordained and installed October 6th, 1886. 
 
 The members of the Church Session, of whom any record 
 remains, are the following: John Vance, for thirty-two years a 
 ruling elder; died, April 15th, 1845. William T. NichoUs, died 
 1842. John Giffin, an elder for fifty years ; died, October 6th, 
 1854. His father was one of the original elders of the church; 
 his son also is an elder. John Giffen, ordained in 1850. John 
 Hunter, served twenty-four years as ruling elder; died in 1854. 
 Nathaniel Hurst, son-in-law of Dr. Power, was for fifty-five years 
 an elder in the church; died 1861. Hugh Wilson, an elder for 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 37 
 
 fifty-two years ; died 1869. Samuel Neel, an elder for sixteen 
 years; died in 1862. He was a son-in-law of one of the original 
 elders of the church. James P. Hurst, ordained in 1850; re- 
 moved from the church in 1863. Robert C. McClain, ordained 
 in 1854; died in 1867. Jesse Hunter, ordained and installed, 
 May loth, 1862. William B. Neel, ordained and installed, May 
 lOth, 1862. Joseph Jamison, ordained and installed. May loth, 
 1862. William Giffen, ordained and installed. May loth, 1862. 
 Jesse Hunter and William B. Neel are now elders in the Re- 
 union Church of Mt. Pleasant; Joseph Jamison and William Gif- 
 fen are elders at Pleasant Unity. John Sherrick, ordained in 
 1840; removed from the congregation in 1886. James Newell, 
 ordained, December 1843. He is now an active member of the 
 session. Joshua Evans, ordained, November 1858; died, Sep- 
 tember 1 87 1. Samuel Hissem, ordained, September 1867; died, 
 January 30th, 1882. These three were elders in the New School 
 branch before the reunion. Reuben K. Hissem, ordained, 1882; 
 now a member of the session. Wilson Shields, William H. Evans 
 and Abram S. Loucks, were ordained and installed, March 20th, 
 1887. 
 
 The session, at present, is composed of the following mem- 
 bers, viz : R. K. Hissem, Wilson Shields, William H. Evans, 
 Abram S. Loucks and James Newell. There have been four 
 church buildings. The first was made of logs, the second was a 
 frame structure and the last two have been of brick. The pres- 
 ent membership of the church is 181. 
 
 LAUREL HILL. 
 
 FROM A HISTORICAL SERMON BY REV. JOEL STONEROAD AND BROUGHT 
 
 DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME BY THE LATE PASTOR^ 
 
 REV. .S. S. BERGEN. 
 
 From the most reliable sources of information accessible to 
 us, the first pastor of Laurel Hill, was Rev. James Dunlap, D. 
 
38 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 D., a native of Chester county, Pa. He was a graduate of Prince- 
 ton College and studied Divinity with Rev. James Finley, of 
 East Nottingham; was licensed by the Presbyter}- of Donegal 
 somewhere between 1776 and 1 781, and was settled in 1782 as 
 first pastor of Laurel Hill and Dunlap's Creek. (See "Old Red- 
 stone," pages 301-2-3). As to facts and dates no man was more 
 likely to be correct than the author of "Old Redstone." 
 
 The same authority informs us that the pastoral relation of 
 Dr. Dunlap to Laurel Hill was dissolved in 1803, when he was 
 elected to the Presidency of Jefferson College. He held this re- 
 -sponsible position until 181 1, when he moved again into the 
 Presbytery of Redstone, shortly after which he was dismissed, at 
 his own request, to the Presbyter}- of Philadelphia, with which 
 his son (Rev. Wm. Dunlap) was connected, as pastor of the 
 church of Abingdon, Pa. With him he lived until his death in 
 18 18, at the age of seventy-five years. 
 
 Tradition, as well as concurrent history, accord to Dr. Dun- 
 lap the character of a very good man and superior scholarship, 
 especially in the classics. It is said he could hear long recita- 
 tions in Virgil and Homer without book and then thoroughly 
 drill the reciting class in the words and sentences, while walking 
 to and fro with his hands behind his back. Tradition, moreover, 
 says that a very difficult sentence from one of the Latin or Greek 
 classics had passed round some half dozen American colleges, 
 challenging translation, when Dr. Dunlap took hold of it and 
 promptly disposed of it to the entire satisfaction of every one 
 competent to pass judgment in the premises. 
 
 It is also said that this excellent and learned man was occa- 
 sionally subject, as many others have been, to periods of great 
 despondency. Take the following case: Soon after his settle- 
 ment at Dunlap's Creek, at the close of the forenoon service, af- 
 ter announcing a second service, with the usual intermission and 
 pronouncing the benediction, he withdrew, under dejection of 
 spirit, to his own house, some half mile away from the church, 
 where some of the elders traced him and with great difficult}- and 
 much persuasion succeeded in bringing him back to the churcli, 
 when he preached with more than usual liberty. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 39 
 
 VVc have no authentic record as to the general state of the 
 church during his pastorate, though tradition says his pastorate 
 was, in the main, a successful one. The great revival of 1 800-1- 
 2-3, attended with what was generally called "the falling work" 
 and which visited so many parts of the western country, was felt, 
 more or less, in the churches of Dunlap's Creek and Laurel Hill. 
 
 The church of Laurel Hill was probably organized by Dr. 
 Power in the year 1776. Such is the testimony of "Old Red- 
 stone." There is not on record, so far as known to the writer, a 
 single shred of positive testimony giving the exact year of its or- 
 ganization. And where "Old Redstone" speaks with hesitation, 
 it ill becomes us to be positive. But in a case of this sort, un- 
 contradicted tradition ought to be satisfactory, if not entirely 
 conclusive. Admitting the chronological ccfrrectness of the fore- 
 going statement, this year, 1876, is literally and truly our Cen- 
 tennial year. 
 
 Laurel Hill just 100 years old! This reminds us of a re- 
 mark made by the great Dr. R. J. Breckinridge, in the Assembly 
 of 1866, at St. Louis, that "one of the hardest things in the 
 world to kill is an Old School Presbyterian Church." Had not 
 the Devil been sufficiently chained he would have crushed old 
 Laurel Hill beneath his feet long, long ago. But thanks to kind 
 Heaven, the Devil is chained by the power and Providence of 
 God; and, like Bunyan's roaring lion, can but reach to the end of 
 his chain. 
 
 The question might as well be mooted here as anywhere, 
 viz.: Why was Laurel Hill given as the name of the church ? 
 Though we have no positive evidence as to the reason of the 
 name, yet, we doubt not, 'tis found in the well known fact that 
 this church lOO years ago was the only church near the great 
 mountain range of that name h'ing to the east — much nearer 
 than any other Presb)'terian church. The churches of Union- 
 town and Connellsville had no existence then, nor for more than 
 half a century after that. Laurel Hill and Dunlap's Creek then 
 may be regarded as the mother of Presb)'terian churches in Fay- 
 ette county, Pa., and have now some fifteen ecclesiastical daughters. 
 
40 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 This is swarming pretty successfully, for which we would thank 
 God and take courage. 
 
 The first house of worship at Laurel Hill was erected in 
 1772 — a very plain, rather small log structure. Subsequently it 
 was considerably enlarged with a frame addition. And then in 
 1852, in the second year of the writer's administration, Rev. Joel 
 Stoneroad, the congregation erected the present very creditable 
 structure in which to worship the God of our fathers. 
 
 Dr. Power, who organized the church of Laurel Hill, came 
 from the Presbytery of New Castle and preached as a licentiate 
 for a short season to the congregations of Laurel Hill, Dunlap's 
 Creek and others in the western country. In December, 1776, 
 he moved his family into the bounds of this Presbytery and in 
 the same year organized this church. 
 
 The earliest records of the church, if they had any, being 
 lost, we have no sessional records running back farther than 
 1833. Yet, unofficial testimon)^ says, that, at the time of Dr. 
 Dunlap's settlement at Laurel Hill, in 1782, the elders were John 
 Travis and James Finley. We know- nothing of them save the 
 names. The first election of elders, after Dr. Dunlap's settle- 
 ment at Laurel Hill, resulted in the choice of James McLean, 
 Samuel McLean, Daniel McLean, John Allen, James Wilkin and 
 John Maxwell. The next accession to the eldership were James 
 Parker and Joseph Morrison — the exact time of their election 
 not being given. 
 
 Though we know but little of these men — of some nothing 
 — they were doubtless men possessing the confidence of those 
 by whom they were elected. James Parker, grand- father to 
 Messrs. James and W. H. Henshaw, as also to the first consort 
 of the present pastor (Rev. J. Stoneroad), comes down thus en- 
 dorsed by tradition, as a faithful servant of Christ and His 
 church. 
 
 It may as well be noted here that it was under Dr. Dun lap 
 that the division on Psalmody occurred in this congregation. 
 The exact time of this is not on record so far as known to us. 
 On the introduction of Dr. Watts' Psalms and Hymns, fully one- 
 third of the congregation, if not more, immediately withdrew. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 4 1 
 
 And to this day, after the lapse of near a century, proportions 
 remain much tlie same — save that the Presbyterian church has 
 grown into some fifteen churches — while the seceding portion 
 (now U. P.) has made no advance whatever in the number of its 
 churches in P"ayette county. [Eds. — We think one or two U. P. 
 churches have recently been organized. A church has been 
 organized in Connellsville within a few years.] 
 
 Whatever may be said of Dr. Dunlap's piety, ability and 
 learning, tradition does not give him much credit for prudence 
 and forecast in this matter of division. Kindly and prudentlx' 
 managed, this unhappy division could and should have been 
 avoided. To thrust Watts upon the congregation without con- 
 sulting the views and sentiments of those opposed to the meas- 
 ure was, to say the least, inexpedient, impolitic and unwise. We 
 have a number of churches in our communion, which, to this 
 day, continue to use Rouse's version. And, in doing so, they 
 have the endorsement of our General Assembly, which long ago, 
 authorised the use of Rouse's version in all our churches that 
 preferred to use it — and this endorsement the General Assembly 
 has never withdrawn. It seems a great pity that so small a mat- 
 ter should have kindled so great a fire. United, they could readi- 
 ly furnish a living salary; divided, the salary in both congrega- 
 tions, is necessarily kept, as nearly as possible, at starvation 
 point. In one way or other, God has doubtless accomplished 
 some good by this division — how or what we cannot say. But 
 assuredly the cause of division is too weak and slender to stand 
 the full blaze of millennial glory, and long ere that period, 
 doubtless, "Fuit Ilium" (Troy has been), will be written under- 
 neath it and then consigned to the tomb of the Capulets. 
 
 Dr. Dunlap having become President of Jefferson College in 
 1803, on the 1 8th of April, 1804, a call from the congregations 
 of Laurel Hill and Tyrone for the ministerial services of Re\ . 
 James Guthrie was lodged in the hands of Presbytery. 
 
 Mr. Guthrie was a native of Westmoreland county, Pa., a 
 child of the covenant, early renewed by the Spirit and carefulK- 
 instructed in the doctrine and duties of religion. His mind be- 
 ing biased in favor of the ministry, he entered Dickinson Col- 
 
42 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 lege, Carlisle, Pa., of which Charles Nesbit, D. D., was the illus- 
 trious President and graduated with the last class from Dickin- 
 son College during Nesbit's administration. Mr. Guthrie studied 
 Theology with one of the pastors of Redstone Presbytery, whose 
 name we have not been able to learn. There were no Theologi- 
 cal Seminaries in those days. 
 
 The above named call being put into the hands of Mr. Guth- 
 rie, after holding it some six months, he accepted it and was or- 
 dained and installed, April 17th, 1805. Rev. George Hill preach- 
 ed the sermon and Rev. Mr. Henderson presided. 
 
 The elders composing the session of Laurel Hill when Mr. 
 Guthrie settled here were Samuel Finley, Samuel McLean, James 
 Holliday, James McCormick and John Morrison. The first el- 
 ders ordained and installed by Mr. Guthrie were Joseph Tor- 
 rence, James Allen and Enoch French. The second addition to 
 the session, under his pastorate, were Patrick Watson, Andrew 
 Wylie and John Clark. 
 
 In 1826, D. A. C. Sherrard, Esq. and John Larrimer, were 
 ordained and installed ruling elders. In 1833, Thomas Grier, 
 John Morrison, Esq., Samuel A. Russel, Robert Davies, A. C. 
 Byers and Matthew Byers, were also ordained and installed by 
 Mr. Guthrie. Also in November 22d, 1844, by the same, Thom- 
 as McMillan, having been previously elected by the congrega- 
 tion, was duly ordained and installed. 
 
 Some five or six months before his death, Mr. Guthrie, feel- 
 ing the infirmities of age creeping upon him, suggested to the 
 session to make out a call for the ministerial services of Rev. 
 Joel Stoneroad, then pastor of Cross Roads Church, Presbytery 
 of Washington, Pa., to become co-pastor with Mr. Guthrie. To 
 this proposition Mr. Stoneroad acceded, a relation both pleasant 
 and cordial, but of very short duration, as Mr. Stoneroad was in- 
 stalled co-pastor, June 6th, 1850, and Mr. Guthrie departed this 
 life, August 24th, 1850, thus making the co-pastorate not quite 
 three months duration. Mr. Guthrie died as he lived and enter- 
 ed into rest. 
 
 Mr. Stoneroad continued to be pastor of the two congrega- 
 tions of Laurel Hill and Tyrone until 1861, when, owing to the 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 43 
 
 cxtensiv^e territory of tlie combined charge, the difficulty of 
 crossing a river without a bridge and the fact that Laurel Hill 
 proposed to take the whole of the pastor's time, paying the sal- 
 ary of both congregations, Mr. Stoneroad, with consent of Pres- 
 bytery, relinquished his charge of Tyrone and gave all his time 
 to Laurel Hill. 
 
 During Mr. Stoneroads first year as pastor of both congre- 
 gations, the additions on examination, at Laurel Hill, were twen- 
 ty-six — not at one time, but at two or three communion seasons. 
 The next year there were ten on examination, the next ten and 
 the next fifteen. We cannot say what were the additions in the 
 same period at Tyrone, as we have not the records before us, 
 though the presumption is that it would nearly equal that of 
 Laurel Hill. After the first four years the additions varied con- 
 siderabl}^, but were generally less up to the year 1870, when 
 twenty-four were added on examination at one time. In 1851 
 the membership was about 136 and shortly after rose to 150; but 
 owing to fewer additions for some years past, with at least the 
 usual number of deaths and dismissions, the membership does 
 not now probably exceed 140. 
 
 The first election for elders under Mr. Stoneroad's pastorate 
 occurred in April, 185 i, which resulted in the choice of James 
 Stewart, John Clark, Wm. H. Haslett and James Allen, who 
 were ordained and installed by the pastor, April, 185 1. The next 
 addition to the session took place in the fall of 1 866, when the 
 following persons were elected, viz.: Wm. Bryson, Robert H. 
 Smith, James Curry, Sr., James Henshaw, Thomas G. Sherrard 
 and Samuel Watson. The two last named refu.sed to serve; the 
 other four were ordained and installed ruling elders by the pas- 
 tor in the church of Laurel Hill. 
 
 We have thus endeavored to give a brief histor)- of the 
 church of Laurel Hill from the beginning, chiefly statistical, of 
 course, and on that account dry. The general character of its 
 membership was of the type impressed on the Presbyterianism 
 of Western Pennsylvania, viz.: Solid, intellectual, evangelical. 
 True, indeed, this general rule has many exceptions, yet con- 
 trasted in these particulars with other denominations, the Presby- 
 
44 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 terian church need not hang her head. Yet we have no reason 
 to boast (God forbid), but the strongest reason for self-abasement 
 and humihation. And whatever has been auspicious in the gen- 
 eral character of our educational and religious institutions in 
 Western Pennsylvania, has been largely influenced by the Pres- 
 byterian element pervading our population. This is emphatically 
 true in the matter of education, scientific, linguistic or theologi- 
 cal. The war-whoop of the savage had scarcely died away 
 along the banks of the Chartiers, when McMillan began to lay 
 the foundations of Jefferson College and taught its pupils to 
 sing : " Tityre, tti patiilae rccubans subtegumine fagir 
 
 Having thus briefly noticed Dr. Dunlap, the first pastor of 
 Laurel Hill, with some of his excellencies and eccentricities, we 
 pass to notice in a similar way the second pastor. Rev. James 
 Guthrie. As the name indicates, he, too, was of Scotch-Irish ori- 
 gin and inherited its usual characteristics, marked, perhaps, with 
 an occasional exuberance of spirits, enabling him to enjoy a good 
 joke and a hearty laugh. His social qualities were rather re- 
 markable, making him quite acceptable to any society in which 
 duty called him to move. 
 
 Mr. Guthrie was four times married. His first wife was a 
 daughter of Joseph Torrence, one of the first elders installed by 
 him and of whom we have already spoken, by whom he had but 
 one son, long since deceased. His second wife was Miss Gal- 
 lagher, of Dunlap's Creek, with an issue of five children, two 
 sons and three daughters, who have all long since deceased, save 
 one, who was long since a member of Laurel Hill, but recently 
 on the score of proximity, of Dunbar, Pa. His third wife was 
 the widow Hunter, of Mt. Pleasant, Pa., who lived a very short 
 time and died without issue. His fourth wife was the widow 
 Heeson, of Uniontown, at that time a member of the writer's 
 charge and whose marriage with Mr. Guthrie he solemnized of 
 course. When a widower the third time and manifestly in search 
 of a fourth wife, the writer told him he knew a lady in his charge 
 (Uniontown) that would suit him well, but doubted if he could 
 get her and on hearing the name he remarked he might try. He 
 did try and succeeded. And as evidence of his fondness for a 
 
PKESI5VTERY OF REDSTONE. 45 
 
 joke, as soon as the ceremony was over he reached out the usual 
 fee to the officiating minister, which, of course, was promptly re- 
 fused, when, with a hearty laugh, he said: "Dog don't eat dog." 
 And wlien twitted, as he occasionally was, with having his fourth 
 wife, he would promptly answer: "If I should lose the fourth I 
 would seek a fifth." And personal acquaintance with one of 
 them, as well as tradition, agree in saying his wives were all pru- 
 dent, pious, excellent women. 
 
 One of the first elders, as we have seen, that Mr. Guthrie or- 
 dained and installed was Joseph Torrence, a man of mark in his 
 day, and for many years clerk of session. Mr. Torrence reared 
 a large and respectable family, one of whom became Judge Tor- 
 rence, of Cincinnati, whose descendants there are numerous, in- 
 telligent, wealthy and greatly respected, many of them being 
 connected with the church of their fathers. The same is, in a 
 measure, true of his posterity in the line of the Millers and Tor- 
 rences, of Allegheny and Fayette counties, Pa. Want of space 
 forbids any special notice of man}' excellent men in the eldership 
 during the Centennial past. Those elders, with many others, 
 like those of Hebrews II, "all obtained a good report" when 
 living, died the death of the righteous, and entered the Gen- 
 eral Assembly of Heaven. There can be nothing invidious in 
 the statement that of the class of elders ordained in 1833 ^^^ 
 held a most prominent position for usefulness as an officer of the 
 church. A gentleman by nature, of unequivocal piety, portly 
 presence and strong common sense, he was emphatically a pillar 
 in the church and his loss was most deeply felt. 
 
 And still there lingers with us one elected, ordained and in- 
 stalled in 1826, completing this year his semi-centennial of fifty- 
 years in the eldership of Laurel Hill, a venerable patriarch of 
 ninety years, calmly waiting an invitation to go up higher. I 
 mean D. A. C. Sherrard, Esq., — having lived through three gen- 
 cration.s — himself the only relic of his own generation left 
 among us. May his last be his best days and in the time ap- 
 pointed may he rest in peace. I must here be permitted to say 
 that having been some forty-six years in the ministry and of 
 course somewhat largely acquainted with the eldership of the 
 
46 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 Presb}'terian church, they constitute as a class, one of the purest, 
 most intelHgent and conscientious body of men to be found on 
 the globe and that their influence in church and state is most fa- 
 vorably and widely felt. (Elder D. A. C. Sherrard died June 3d, 
 1880, in the ninety-fourth year of his age and fifty-fourth year as 
 elder of Laurel Hill S. S. B.) 
 
 We have thus given a brief history of the Presbyterian 
 church of Laurel Hill, the best we can do from the material ac- 
 cessible to us. The sessional records run back to 1833, previous 
 to which no minutes of session seem to have been kept, or if kept 
 are now utterly lost. In November, 1840, session thought it high 
 time to prepare a brief history of the church and from the sources 
 of information accessible to them compiled substantially the his- 
 tory you have just read relative to the first pastor. Dr. Dunlap, 
 and the first elders, John Travis and Samuel Finley, and thence 
 down to 1833, from which time to the present we have the regu- 
 lar minutes of the session. In the foregoing history there is, we 
 acknowledge, a comparative dearth of incident, which is charac- 
 teristic of the great majority of real congregations. But our 
 business now is not to make history but to write it. 
 
 A fact here I prefer not to write, but which, if omitted, would 
 leave the history of the congregation imperfect, is this: that 
 though the salary twenty-six years ago was the usual sum of 
 $500, this congregation did not, as was generally done, raise the 
 salary as the price of living rose. This would have been clearly 
 just, and because just and not done, may not God have had a 
 controversy with the congregation, withholding His Spirit be- 
 cause they bring not "the tithes into the store house?" But 
 the opposite course : bringing "the tithes into the store house," 
 that is fully supporting the Gospel, "will open you the windows 
 of Heaven and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be 
 room enough to receive it." True, indeed, occasional showers 
 and frequent mercy drops from Heaven have in times past visited 
 the congregation, but not those copious outpourings of the Spirit 
 that sometimes descend upon more liberal congregations. "The 
 liberal soul shall be made fat and he that watereth shall be water- 
 
PRKSBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 47 
 
 ed also himself." Fidelity to truth and history requires that this 
 statement, however unpleasant, be recorded. 
 
 It is not out of place here to say, what can be said of but few- 
 congregations lOO years old, that we have had but three pastors 
 averaging thirtj'-three and a half years each. Whether more 
 frequent changes in the pastorate would have proven beneficial 
 or otherwise, must, of course be left to individual decision. 
 
 (Prepared by Rev. Joel Stoneroad in the year 1876, the 
 centennial of Laurel Hill's existence as a church.) 
 
 .SUPPLE.MENT TO THE HISTORY OF LAUREL HILL CHURCH, 
 BY REV. S. S. BERGEN, OCTOBER, 1 887. 
 
 Rev. Joel Stoneroad, author of the previous part of this his- 
 tory, was ordained as pa.stor of Laurel Hill Church in June, 
 1850, and continued to hold this position until near the close of 
 the year 1878, a little over twenty-eight years. He resigned in 
 the spring of that year, but was still acting as Moderator of the 
 session late in the fall. Feeling the infirmities of age creeping 
 upon him, he resigned his charge and spent the few remaining 
 years of his life in his home, near the village of Dunbar, quietly 
 waiting the summons to come up higher. It was hard for him 
 to give up the active duties of the ministry and spend so many 
 years in apparent idleness, but such seems to have been the 
 Lord's will. I am well satisfied it would have been a great re- 
 lief to his mind and satisfactory to a large majority of the con- 
 gregation, if he had had a co-pastor and had been permitted 
 to preach whenever he felt able. But for some two or three 
 years before his death he was too feeble for any public effort, 
 though not confined to his bed. He died August nth, 1884, 
 and was followed to his final resting place in Laurel Hill grave- 
 yard, mourned by the whole congregation and hosts of other 
 friends. His memory is still precious in every household in 
 Laurel Hill congregation. Truly, "he being dead, yet speaketh." 
 
 Mr. Stoneroad was of German descent and was born near 
 Lewi.stown, Mifflin county. Fa., January 2d, 1806. He graduated 
 
48 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 at Jefferson College, Pa., in 1827 and studied theology in the 
 Theological department or Seminary of Princeton College, New- 
 Jersey, taking the full three years' course and receiving a diplo- 
 ma. His ministry covered a period of nearly fifty years. After 
 a short service under commission from the Board of Domestic 
 Missions, he was pastor of the church in Uniontown, F'ayette 
 county, Pa., for eleven years and afterward of the Cross Roads 
 Church, Florence, Washington County, Pa., for eight years and 
 then of Laurel Hill for twenty-eight years. He was a devout 
 student of God's word. As Rev. L. Y. Graham, who was for 
 many years intimately associated with him, testified at his funeral, 
 he was eminently Pauline in his theology and was exceedingly 
 conscientious in his ministrations in the pulpit and out of it. 
 The weather was never severe enough to keep him from his ap- 
 pointments or to prevent him from visiting the sick and dying. 
 On one occasion one-third of his congregation was converted as 
 the result of his preaching, but only three persons were present. 
 As one of the resolutions passed by the congregation at the time 
 of his resignation declares, he literally wore himself out in the 
 service of the Master. 
 
 Mr. Stoneroad was twice married. His first wife, to whom 
 he was married, September i ith, 1832, was Miss Rebecca, daugh- 
 ter of David Veech, of Greene county. Pa., by whom he had two 
 daughters, the elder being the wife of Rev. T. P. Speer, of Woos- 
 ter, Ohio, and the younger, Miss Sarah Louisa Stoneroad, who 
 resides with her sister. His second wife, to whom he was mar- 
 ried, June 27th, 1854, was Miss Hannah, daughter of Col. James 
 Paull, of Fayette county. Pa. Of this union are four children — 
 James Paull, now in New Mexico ; Thomas Lewis, a graduate of 
 LaFayette College, accidentally drowned a few years ago ; Miss 
 Mary Belle, at home and Joel T. M., lately attending Wooster 
 University, Ohio. Mrs. Stoneroad, sometime after Mr. S.'s death, 
 moved to Wooster, Ohio, where she still resides. 
 
 For the first few months of the year 1879, Rev. J. P. Ful- 
 ton, for eleven years pastor of Dunlap's Creek and McClelland- 
 town, acted as supply. During his ministration, as the result of 
 a series of meetings held in the Laurel Hill church and la.sting 
 
PRESBVTERV OF REDSTONE. 49 
 
 for several weeks, quite a number were added to the church and 
 the church members were very much revived. The minutes 
 show that during his short stay with the church over thirty were 
 added on examination. After supplying the church for a few 
 months against the wisli of the congregation, he moved west, to 
 Kansas, where is still living and serving the Master. The report 
 comes back that he has become wealth)-, but we are sure that it 
 is not by preaching. 
 
 For a few months after Mr. Fulton left, the congregation 
 made the mistake, so often made by congregations in these days, 
 of listening to various candidates. In September, 1879, becom- 
 ing tired of this and being well satisfied with his ministerial qual- 
 ifications, &c., the congregation called to the pastorate Rev^ R. 
 R. Gailey, then and for several years before, pastor of Little 
 Redstone Church, in the same Presbytery. According to the 
 records he was installed, September 12th, 1879, and remained 
 pastor until April i.st, 1882. Then, at his own request, he was 
 dismissed to the Steubenville Presbytery, within the bounds of 
 which he still lives and labors. 
 
 Before the fires went out in the house now occupied as a 
 parsonage, the present pastor (Rev. S. S. Bergen), invited by the 
 congregation to supply the pulpit for a few months, moved in. 
 After preaching for some two months as supply, he was called to 
 the pastorate and installed, August 12th, 1882. 
 
 Of the elders ordained and installed in 1866, Messrs. Wm. 
 Bryson, Robert H. Smith and James Curry, Sr., were still living 
 and serving at the time Mr. Stoneroad resigned in 1878. Also. 
 Mr. John Wright, formerly an elder in the Presbyterian church 
 of Monongahela City, was received into the church of Laurel 
 Hill and elected a ruling elder in July, 1864. James Henshaw, 
 ordained and installed in 1866, died October 22d, 1878. He was 
 a godly man, having the confidence of the whole congregation 
 and died as he lived. He was a great sufferer, dying with can- 
 cer, but bore it with Christian fortitude. Two of his children, a 
 son and daughter, still serve the Master in the old church. 
 James Curry, Sr., died March 2d, 1883, during the present pas- 
 torate. He was permitted to serve in the eldership the Master 
 
50 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 whom he loved for seventeen years. Five children, two sons and 
 three daughters survive him. two of whom, a son and daughter, 
 still serve the Master in the old church. One daughter lives in 
 New Haven, Pa., and the other two are in the far west. Wm. 
 Bryson, Robert H. Smith and John Wright are still acting ruling 
 elders at Laurel Hill. 
 
 On April 13th, 1878, Messrs. Joseph Reiner, George Yeag- 
 ley, and T. H. Smith were ordained and installed as elders. On 
 November i.st, 1885, Messrs. Jesse A. Oglevie and John John- 
 son, having been previously chosen by the congregation as 
 ruling elders, were ordained and installed. August 15th, 1886, 
 Mr. Henry Cook, formerly an elder in the Little Redstone church, 
 was installed at Laurel Hill. In January, 1881, Mr. Joseph 
 Reiner was dismissed to the Presbyterian church of Morgan- 
 town, West Va., where he still lives and serves his Master as an 
 elder. 
 
 During the latter years of Mr. Stoneroad's pastorate, in 
 1877, preaching having been kept up in a school house near the 
 foot of the mountains for many years, a house, 30x40, was built 
 and named Bethel Chapel. In this house there has been regular 
 service nearly every other Sabbath afternoon or evening since. This 
 chapel is some four miles from the church. In August, 1885, 
 during the present pastorate, another chapel, some six or seven 
 miles on the opposite side of Laurel Hill, size 30x44, was dedi- 
 cated and named Stoneroad Chapel, in honor of Rev. Joel Stone- 
 road, so long pastor of Laurel Hill. Here services are kept up 
 regularly on alternate Sabbath afternoons or evenings. In the 
 year before Stoneroad Chapel was built, 1884, Laurel Hill 
 Church was repaired at an expense of about $500. Bethel 
 Chapel was also repaired in the same year. 
 
 The church of Laurel Hill, in all her history, extending over 
 a period of about 1 1 1 years, has never had a home for her pas- 
 tor. Fathers Guthrie and Stoneroad owned homes of their own. 
 Since that the pastor has been compelled to live in a rented house, 
 which would be a smaller matter if it were near the church. In 
 the estimation of the writer and of many others both in and out 
 of the congregation, a parsonage, convenient to the church, is the 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 5I 
 
 one thing needed, so far as material things arc concerned, to add 
 to the comfort and efficiency of the pastor and to make Laurel 
 Hill Church a very desirable charge to one who is not afraid of 
 hard work in the Master's service. In the language of one of 
 her elders, now waiting the summons of the Master: "With a 
 congregation scattered o\er a territory ten b\- fourteen miles, 
 with over a hundred families to shepherd, with three places of 
 preaching, involving a ride of from ten to fourteen miles every 
 Sabbath, it is as little as the congregation can do to thus (b\- 
 erection of parsonage) make the work as light for the pastor as 
 possible."' 
 
 The first statistical record of number of members that we 
 have been able to find is in April, 1881, when the number given 
 is 153. At the time Mr. Fulton ceased his labors it probabK- 
 numbered as many as i6o, but during Mr. Galley's pastorate a 
 number of families sold out and moved away, as the result of the 
 coal excitement. By this means the church was very much 
 weakened. Since that there has been a gradual increase, the 
 membership last April being 187. A goodly proportion of this 
 increase is due to the comparatively new work at Stoneroad 
 Chapel, though the additions at Laurel Hill from \ear to year 
 have been gratifying. There has been no revival since the begin- 
 ning of the present pastorate, and yet few communion seasons 
 have passed without additions, for which we are devoutly thank- 
 ful. 
 
 While the church has been growing in numbers it has also 
 been growing in liberality. During Mr. Galley's and the present 
 pastorate, the complaint made, and no doubt justly, in the previ- 
 ous part of this history, on the question of salary, would not 
 hold good. The salary has been nearer what it ought to be 
 and ever}- year it is paid with increasing promptness. But in the 
 benevolent work of the church the result is especially gratif}ing. 
 The year closing April, 1881, the whole amount contributed to 
 the benevolent work of the church was $221. Year by year 
 there has been a gratifying increase until last year it became 
 ^5385. And still there is great room for improvement. A part 
 of this increase in benevolent contributions, is due to the Wo- 
 
52 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 man's Home and Foreign Missionary Society, which last year gave 
 some ^50 to Home and Foreign Missions, and, besides, made up 
 a box for a family under the care of the Board of Ministerial Relief 
 worth ^25, and to the Sabbath School, which gave $50 to Home 
 and Foreign Missions. When we reach the measure of our abil- 
 ity and thus the measure of the Lord's requirement, in that de- 
 gree will the Lord, I believe, open the windows of Heaven and 
 pour out to us of every spiritual blessing. The Lord loves a cheer- 
 ful giver, and whom he loves he will certainly bless. There is a 
 reflex influence in giving, that, while it should not be the only 
 motive, should not be overlooked. 
 
 May the Lord add many centuries, if He delay His coming 
 so long, to the history of old Laurel Hill Church, and gather 
 hundreds through her that will shine as stars forever and ev^er. 
 
 TYRONE. 
 
 BY REV. JOSEPH L. HUNTER. 
 
 The first settlers of Tyrone township were Scotch-Irish. In 
 the midst of these the Tyrone Presbyterian Church was organ- 
 ized. In the year 1774 Rev. James Power visited this region 
 and all available records point to the fact that he organized this 
 church about that time. In October, 1776, he moved from the 
 East to Dunlap's Creek and from that time on preached frequent- 
 ly at Tyrone. Barnett Cunningham and James Torrence were 
 ordained elders by him, not later than 1776 and probably two 
 years earlier. In the year 1784 he preached one-fourth part of 
 his time at Tyrone. The next record we have is, that in 1793 
 Tyrone was vacant. All the pastoral care this church received 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 53 
 
 for the first twenty-eight or thirty years was given it by Dr. Pow- 
 er. The next minister was Dr. James Dunlap, who was Stated 
 Supply for an unknown period, prior to 1803. 
 
 Rev. James Guthrie was the first installed pastor. He was a 
 native of Westmoreland county, small of stature and of a ner- 
 vous temperament. He divided his time between Tyrone and 
 Laurel Hill, where he was ordained, April 17th, 1805. He Avas 
 four times married, twice to daughters of his elders. He was 
 pastor of three churches a little over fifty years. On the 5th of 
 June, 1850, Rev. Joel Stoneroad was installed as co-pastor over 
 the two churches. Mr. Guthrie died within three months after 
 this and Mr. Stoneroad became sole pastor until 1864, when he 
 resigned his pastoral charge over Tyrone and gave his whole 
 time to Laurel Hill. About this time the church enjoyed for a 
 short time the ministerial services of Rev. George Paull, a licen- 
 tiate under appointment as a Foreign Missionary. On the ist 
 Monday of June, 1864, Rev. W. L. Boyd, then pastor of Sewick- 
 ley Church, was installed over Tyrone for one-third of his time. 
 Rev. Joel Stoneroad preached the sermon. Rev. W. F. Hamilton 
 presided and charged the pastor and Rev. N. H. G. Fife charged 
 the people. This pastorate was a period of growth in the con- 
 gregation and continued for three years. 
 
 From 1867 to 1871 another vacancy occurred, during which 
 time the church had occasional supplies. On the 27th of July. 
 1 87 1, Rev. Thos. S. Parke was installed over Tyrone and Har- 
 mony, a relation which lasted until 1875. When Mr. Parke left, 
 Rev. J. H. Stevenson became pastor and continued to exercise 
 the duties of his office among us until the fall of 1883. It was 
 during the time of his pastorate that the church of Dawson was 
 dissolved and the membership added to Tyrone. 
 
 From 1883 to 1885, Rev. N. G. White acted as Stated Sup- 
 ply. The next two years the church was almost entirely with- 
 out supplies, having had but four days' preaching in all that time. 
 As might be supposed, there was very little spiritual life remain- 
 ing at the end of that time. But during the "week of prayer," 
 commencing on the first Sabbath of January, 1888, there was a 
 gracious awakening. Mr. Wm. ¥. Gault, the only elder left in 
 
54 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 the church began a series of meetings which lasted twenty-four 
 days and resulted in the conversion of twenty-four souls. One 
 peculiarity of the meetings was that they were conducted mainl}- 
 by Mr. Gault himself, without any ministerial assistance ; the)' 
 were brought to a close only when this faithful elder was worn 
 out and all within reach had been brought into the fold of Christ. 
 Such is the poAver of God's Spirit if man will only do his part. 
 The church now revived and awakened, determined to call a pas- 
 tor. Accordingly on May 8th, 1888, Mr. Joseph L. Hunter was 
 ordained and installed pastor over the united churches of Tyrone 
 and Dawson. The meeting which ordained Mr. Hunter was the 
 first meeting of Presbytery ever held at Tyrone. Mr. Wm. Lint 
 was elected a ruling elder and installed on the 24th of the follow- 
 ing June. The church at that time had two elders, viz.: Mr. 
 Gault and Mr. Lint; a membership of seventy-one and a Sab- 
 bath School in a flourishing condition. Of the different houses 
 of worship, something, perhaps, ought to be said. The first two 
 houses were made of logs, the last being an improvement on the 
 first in being constructed of hewn logs. On the 4th of June, 
 1852, a brick house was erected and dedicated to the worship of 
 God, but on account of a bad foundation the congregation did 
 not enjoy it long. This building soon gave way and on the 4th 
 of May, 1873, the present substantial brick structure was dedi- 
 cated and set apart for religious worship. The church has had 
 in all twenty-five elders, viz. : Barnett Cunningham and James 
 Torrence, the original elders of the organization ; the first died, 
 September 13th, 1808; the latter died, May 12th, 1826, having 
 served in the eldership for fifty years. The next in order are 
 Robert Smith, James Goudy, John Cummings, John Cooly, Wm. 
 Huston, .son of Col. Joseph Huston ; Frank Vance, Wm. Smith, 
 Jo.seph H. Cunningham, Hugh Torrence, oldest son of James; 
 Alex. Johnston, Cunningham Torrence, Nathaniel Hurst, John 
 Stouffer, Joseph Gault, who served the church fortj'-four years; 
 Barnett Cunningham, a grandson of the original Barnett, who 
 served the church thirty-four years; Wm. V. Hurst, Henry C. 
 Boyd, Wm. F. Gault, Jonathan Merritt, T. R. De Yarman and 
 Wm. Lint. Tyrone has had on an average not more than one- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 55 
 
 third of a pastor's time during her existence, yet how blessed the 
 results. This was one of the first churches in all this region of 
 country. In earK' days many came to the Sabbath services from 
 Indian Creek, fifteen miles distant, and some came from beyond 
 Jacob's Creek. Tyrone is the mother of the churches of Con- 
 nellsville, Dunbar, Scottdale. Dawson, Indian Creek and Har- 
 mony; the la.st two dissolved. It is impossible to sum up all the 
 results of the preaching of the Gospel here. The average salarj^ 
 paid by Tyrone to her pastors for the service rendered has been 
 about $200 per year. Had a more liberal policy been pursued 
 and the church better supplied with preaching, possibly Tyrone 
 to-day would be self-supporting. 
 
 ROUND HILL. 
 
 BY REV. B. T. DEWITT. 
 
 The early history of Round Hill is derived entirely from 
 tradition. The Rev. James Finley visited this region and preach- 
 ed to the scattered white inhabitants about 1772. From this 
 time till 1783, he occasionally returned to nurture and confirm 
 what he had begun. During one of these visits he organized the 
 churches of Rehoboth and Round Hill on the same day. This 
 was probably in 1778. During this period the inhabitants were 
 in great fear on account of hostile Indians. The.se churches be- 
 gan their existence in a time of great peril and distress. The 
 alarms of war between the United States and the Indians re- 
 sounded throughout this entire region. That must have been a 
 period of distress when flour sold for sixteen dollars a barrel and 
 bacon for one dollar a pound. 
 
56 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 In 1784, Round Hill and Rehoboth regularly settled as pas- 
 tor, Rev. Jas. Finley, his services being equally divided between 
 them. Round Hill included at this time an extensive territory, 
 embracing the present parishes of Mt. Vernon and West Eliza- 
 beth and a part of McKeesport, Lebanon and Monongahela City, 
 and on Sabbath days a very large congregation gathered here 
 from all this region. By the death of Rev. James Finley, Janu- 
 ar}' 6th, 1795, these churches became vacant and continued so for 
 two )/ears or more, when the Rev. David Smith was installed 
 over them. He continued their pastor till his death, August 
 24th, 1803. During the last year of his ministry these churches 
 were visited with a gracious revival of religion, accompanied 
 with remarkable manifestations called at that time "the falling 
 down work." 
 
 Mr. Smith was succeeded in this pastorate by Rev. Wm. 
 Wylie, D. D., in 1805. There were then about 130 communi- 
 cants in the two churches together. Mr. Wylie continued pas- 
 tor until the spring of 1817, when he was dismissed at his own 
 request. 
 
 In the following June, the Rev. Robt. Johnston became their 
 pastor. This relation was dissolved as respects Round Hill in 
 October, 1831. 
 
 In July, 1833, Rev. N. H. Gillett became the Stated Supply 
 of these two churches until December, 1834, when he was in- 
 stalled pastor. In 1841 he was dismissed from Round Hill at 
 his own request, Rehoboth having given him a call for the whole 
 of his services. Thus ended the union of Rehoboth and Round 
 Hill in one pastorate. Round Hill then had 108 communicants. 
 
 Round Hill called and settled as pastor. Rev. Wm. Eaton, 
 in 1 841. He remained their pastor until April, 1844, when at 
 his own request he was dismissed. During his pastorate twenty- 
 six were received to membership on examination and three by 
 certificate. 
 
 In 1845 Rev. Adley Calhoun was ordained and installed 
 pastor of Round Hill. He was removed by death i;i the spring 
 of 1848. During his brief ministr}' there were added to the 
 church fort}'-five on examination and thirteen by certificate. 
 
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 The church was very prosperous at this time both temporally 
 and spiritually. 
 
 The congregation of Round Hill was supplied by licentiates 
 until the spring of 1851, when Rev. Joseph Smith, D. D., was 
 called to be their pastor. He was installed, June loth, 1851. 
 He resigned and was dismissed in 1855. During his pastorate 
 thirty were received into church membership on examination and 
 thirty-eight by letter. In 1851 Round Hill congregation built in 
 the town of Elizabeth a large and commodious brick edifice. 
 From that time until the present they have worshiped alternately 
 in the two edifices. In 1854 Round Hill contained 140 commu- 
 nicants. 
 
 Rev. James Martin became pastor of this church in 1857. 
 His pastoral relation was dissolved in June, 1863. During his 
 pastorate fifty-three were received to church membership on ex- 
 amination and eighteen by certificate. 
 
 Rev. J. Logan Sample was called in September, 1863. He 
 was ordained and installed, June 14th, 1864. The pastoral re- 
 lation was dissolved in 1866. During his pastorate 105 were re- 
 ceived to membership on examination and ele\'en by certificate. 
 While he was pastor a great revival occurred. 
 
 In May, 1867, Rev. W. L. Boyd was installed pastor. He 
 was released from this relation in October, 1870. During his 
 pastorate nineteen were added on examination and twenty-six by 
 certificate. 
 
 In June, 1872, Rev. J. B. Dickey, was installed pastor. He 
 was released from this relation in June, 1877. During the first 
 year of his ministry the congregation built in Elizabeth a large 
 and beautiful brick parsonage. During his pastorate eighty-four 
 were received to membership on examination and forty six b\- 
 certificate. 
 
 After Mr. Dickey's dismissal the church was supplied for 
 about a year b)^ a licentiate. 
 
 On January 20th, 1880, Rev. J. D. Shanks was installed pas- 
 tor. In December, 1883, he was dismissed at his own request. 
 
 In June, 1885, the present pastor. Rev. B. T. DeWitt, was 
 installed. Additions since, twent)'; whole number of communi- 
 cants, 174. 
 
58 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE, 
 
 REHOBOTH. 
 
 BY REV. S. F. FARMER, D. D. 
 
 The Presbyterian church of Rehoboth was organized about 
 the year 1778, by Rev. James Finley, a member of the Presby- 
 tery of New Castle, who had been doing occasional missionary 
 work in the neighborhood for some two years. 
 
 In the year 1784, Mr. Finley became pastor of this church, 
 in connection with Round Hill, in the then lately organized Pres- 
 bytery of Redstone. Mr. Finley continued pastor of the.se 
 churches till the time of his death, January 6th, 1795. His abil- 
 ity and faithfulness as a minister of the Gospel greatly endeared 
 him to the people of his charge. His work was evidently of the 
 kind that abides. He was the father of a church whose good in- 
 fluence has lived and grown for a century. His memory is held 
 in reverence, not only by the church, but the neighborhood. 
 "He rests from his labors and his works do follow him." 
 
 After the death of Mr. Finley the church remained vacant 
 about two years, when Rev. David Smith became its pastor. 
 The pastorate of Mr. Smith continued about six years. The last 
 of these years was made memorable by a very remarkable out- 
 pouring of the Spirit of God upon the church of Rehoboth, as 
 also upon most of the neighboring churches. The preaching of 
 the word was accompanied by a power, under which many per- 
 sons fell prostrate and others cried aloud under a sense of guilt. 
 At that memorable period, while in the vigor of his manhood 
 and in the midst of his usefulness, the minister was called from 
 his earthly labors to that "rest which remaineth for the people of 
 God." He died, August 24th, 1803. 
 
 Mr. Smith was succeeded by Rev. William Wylie, who was 
 installed in 1805 ^^'^<^ continued pastor of the church about 
 twelve years. At that time the two churches, Rehoboth and 
 Round Hill, numbered about 130 members. During the pastor- 
 ate of Mr. W\'lie the church did not increase, but rather dimin- 
 ished in numbers, although Mr. Wylie was a man of more than 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 59 
 
 ordinary ability; brilliant as an orator and diligent as a pastor. 
 The reason of the lack of increase no doubt was, that durin<;- 
 those years many of the people moved west. Mr. W'ylie was, at 
 his own request, released in the spring of 181 7. 
 
 In June, of the same year, Rev. Robert Johnston became 
 pastor of the churches of Rehoboth and Round Hill. The 
 records of session show that the church of Rehoboth had at 
 that time sixty-six members and Round Hill fift\-three. During" 
 the pastorate of Mr. Johnston, a period of fifteen years, several 
 revivals occurred and the membership of these churches was 
 nearly doubled. Mr. Johnston was released from the pastoral 
 charge of the church of Round Hill in October, 1831, and of 
 Rehoboth in December, 1832. 
 
 Rev. N. H. Gillet began to preach as supply in July, 1833. 
 and was installed as pastor in December, 1834. Several seasons 
 of revival were enjoyed during the pastorate of Mr. Gillett. At 
 one communion thirty persons were added to the church by ex- 
 amination. In 1 841 Mr. Gillett was released from the pastoral 
 charge of the Round Hill Church and accepted a call from Re- 
 hoboth for the whole of his time and in 1848 he was, at his own 
 request, released from the pastoral charge of the church of Re- 
 hoboth. In 1849 Rev. James R. Hughes was installed pastor of 
 the church of Rehoboth. During the pastorate of Mr. Hughes 
 157 persons were added to the membership of the church. He 
 was dismissed at his own request and removed from Rehoboth 
 in 1865, to take charge of a female seminary at Blairsville, Pa. 
 
 Mr. Hughes was succeeded b)- Rev. Loyal Young Graham, 
 who was installed as pastor of Rehoboth Church, October nth. 
 1865. After a pastorate of six years. Mr. Graham was dismissed 
 at his own request, to accept a call to the 01i\et Presbyterian 
 Church, Philadelphia. 
 
 Mr. Graham was succeeded by Rev. G. M. Hair, whose in- 
 stallation took place, December 20th. 1872. During the minis- 
 try of Mr. Hair, which continued one year and five months, for- 
 ty-eight persons were added to the church. 
 
 The next pastor was Rev. Marcus Wishart, who was in- 
 .stalled, October 28th, 1874, and continued pastor of the church 
 
6o PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 until April 24th, 1877, when he was dismissed at his own request. 
 
 The church remained vacant only till August 30th, of the 
 same j^ear, when Rev. A. F. Boyd, having received and accepted 
 a call, was installed as its pastor. At a called meeting of the 
 Presbytery, held at West Newton, December nth, 1883, at the 
 request of Mr. Boyd, the pastoral relation between him and the 
 church was dissolved, his pastorate having continued six years 
 and five months. 
 
 After remaining vacant some nine months, the church ex- 
 tended a call to Rev. W. G. Nevin. Mr. Nevin accepted the call 
 and was installed, October 28th, 1884. Mr. Nevin's pastorate 
 continued two years and three months, at the expiration of which 
 time, February ist, 1887, he was, at his own request, dismissed to 
 accept a call to the Presbyterian church of Sharon, Pa., where 
 he is now laboring. 
 
 The present pastor. Rev. S. F. Farnier, D. D., was called 
 unanimously by the church of Rehoboth, April 30th, 1887, and 
 his installation took place, June 30th. of the same year. 
 
 LONG RUN. 
 
 BY REV. C. P. CHEESEMAN. 
 
 History, the accurate record of the past, is an interesting 
 study, whether it relates to church or state. From small begin- 
 nings, our nation has grown to vast proportions. And the same 
 is true of the Presbyterian church in America, and yet it is a fact, 
 in some respects sad, that many of the churches numerically 
 strong in the early days, have weakened, with advancing years, 
 until to-day they are scarcely self-supporting. But when we re- 
 member the good done, the swarms that have gone out from the 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 6 1 
 
 old hives, we are encouraged to believe these very churches are 
 deserving our most tender care. 
 
 The church of Long Run is said to date as early as Red- 
 stone Presbytery, 1781. Very soon after the organization of 
 the Presbytery, Long Run appeared and asked for supplies, and 
 thereafter for eleven or twelve years this church was supplied 
 with the Gospel without having a pastor. It is not strange they 
 were so long vacant, in view of the great scarcity of ministers in 
 those days. 
 
 The Rev. Jas. Finley was, probably, the first supply. Men- 
 tion is made of Revs. Jno. Clark, Jno. Brice, Jno. McFerrin and 
 John McMillan, as supplies. 
 
 On Thursday, April 21st, 1790, there appeared a young man 
 before Presb3'tery by the name of Wm. Swan, who asked to be 
 put upon trial with a view to be licensed to preach the Gospel. 
 He was examined on Experimental Religion and Theology and 
 the Presbytery being satisfied, assigned him subjects on which to 
 prepare. He passed the various parts of trial assigned him to 
 the satisfaction of Presbytery, and on the 22d day of December, 
 1791, Mr. Swan was licensed to preach the Gospel, He was then 
 appointed to supply at Long Run on the fourth Sabbath of 
 March, the first Sabbath of June and the second Sabbath of Au- 
 gust, 1792. The services of Mr. Swan seem to have been 
 much demanded, for at the meeting of Presbytery, held at Pigeon 
 Creek, on the i6th of October, 1792, he had four calls put into 
 his hands, viz.: P'rom the united congregations of Bethel and 
 PLbenezer, Mingo and Horseshoe Bottom, Long Run and Se- 
 wickley, Mill Creek and King's Creek. 
 
 At the meeting of Presbytery held April 17th, 1793, Mr. 
 Swan accepted the calls from Long Run and Sewickley. Pres- 
 bytery assigned Mr. Swan Rom. 3:31 as a subject for ordination 
 sermon, and at a meeting of Presbytery held at Long Run, Oc- 
 tober 15th, 1793, he was ordained to the full work of the Gospel 
 Ministry and installed pastor of Long Run and Sewickley. Dr. 
 McMillan preached the sermon from the text. Is. 62:6: "I have 
 set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never 
 hold their peace day nor night, ye that make mention of the 
 
62 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 Lord, keep not silence. And give him no rest, till he establish 
 and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth;" truly, a happy 
 theme for such an occasion. Of these united congregations, Mr. 
 Swan remained pastor for a period of twenty-five years. 
 
 At a meeting of Presbytery, held at Polk Run, June 30th, 
 1 8 18, the sacred ties that held pastor and people in intimate 
 union for a quarter of a century were severed, but it is recorded 
 that at the spring meeting of Presbytery the following year, 
 April 20th, 1 8 19, Mr. Swan was recalled to the pastorate of Long 
 Run alone. Being in poor health he was not able to do full 
 work and was aided somewhat by supplies sent by Presbytery. 
 Declining health compelled him to resign, April i6th, 1822. 
 The first pastor of Long Run, therefore, served them during a 
 period of twenty-eight years. Mr. Swan was a native of Cum- 
 berland, now Franklin county. Pa. He received his education at 
 Canonsburg. What the growth of the church was under his 
 ministry we can not ascertain. But no doubt his work was a 
 good one and his labors acceptable. Dr. Smith, in "Old Red- 
 stone," says: "In the year 1804, and for some time afterward, 
 Mr. Swan's congregations were visited with special outpourings 
 of God's Spirit, and considerable numbers were added to the 
 church. Mr. Swan's health continued to decline and on the 7th 
 of November, 1827, he fell asleep in Jesus in the sixty-fourth 
 year of his age. He was buried in the Long Run graveyard and 
 'his sepulchre is with us to this day.' " 
 
 The church now remained vacant for a period of three years, 
 during which time it was supplied, in part, by the Presbytery and 
 in part b)' ministers from other Presbyteries. 
 
 At a meeting of Presbytery, held at Beulah, October 19th, 
 1824, the congregation presented a call for the ministerial ser- 
 vices of Mr. Alexander McCandlass for two-thirds of his time, 
 at a salary of ^300. At the same meeting the congregation of 
 McKeesport presented a call for one-third of Mr. McCandlass' 
 time, offering him a salary of $1$^- These calls were accepted 
 and at the next meeting of Presbytery, April 19th, 1825, held at 
 Long Run, he was ordained and installed over these congrega- 
 tions. Mr. McCandlass served these people for twelve years. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE, 63 
 
 In October, 1837, he resigned the charge of McKeesport and 
 leave was granted the congregation of Long Run to employ him 
 the whole of his time. But the following year, owing to the state 
 of his health, Mr. McCandlass asked to be released from Long 
 Run. His request was granted, but at the meeting of Presby- 
 tery held, October 2d, 1838, the congregation asked and obtained 
 leave to employ Mr. McCandlass as Stated Supply for six- 
 months. And after an experience of twelve years as pastor and 
 six months as supply, the congregation concluded to recall Mr. 
 McCandlass. He accepted the call and Rev. Messrs. Johnson 
 and Montgomery were appointed a committee to install him. 
 This relation continued till April 8th, 1845. 
 
 Mr. McCandlass' pastorate extended over a period of twenty 
 years. It is impossible to ascertain what was the condition and 
 growth of the church during the time it was united with Mc- 
 Keesport. The statistical tables for that period, included both 
 congregations, just as if they had been one. But during the time 
 Mr. McCandlass was pastor of Long Run alone, the church 
 seems to have been in its most prosperous condition. This is 
 the period when the membership reached the highest number 
 and when the contributions of the church were the largest. In 
 1839 the membership was 228. From that to 1844, there was a 
 .steady growth, when the number reached 272. Upon one or 
 two occasions during this period, there were added as many as 
 twenty on examination. Long Run was Mr. McCandlass' first 
 and onl}' charge. After his release from his pastoral work he 
 spent some time in New Jersey, after which he went to Monroe 
 county, Ohio, where he died on the loth of April, 1848. 
 
 Mr. McCandlass was succeeded as pastor of this church by 
 Rev. W. D. Moore. Indeed, the congregation could hardly be 
 said to be vacant at all; for at the same meeting at which the 
 pastoral relation between Mr. McCandlass and this church was 
 dissolved, a call was presented for the services of Mr. W. D. 
 Moore, then a licentiate, under the care of the Presbytery of 
 Ohio. 
 
 This call was accepted and Presbytery met at Long Run, 
 June nth, 1845, to ordain and install the pastor elect. In this 
 
64 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 service Rev. Jos. B. McKee preached the sermon, Rev. Saml. 
 Wilson presided and deHvered the charge to the pastor, and Rev. 
 Jas. I. Brownson gave the charge to the people. The pastorate 
 of Mr. Moore continued a httle over four years and then termi- 
 nated, neither at his own request nor that of the congregation. 
 This unusual transaction is explained in the following manner : 
 Mr. Moore received, in the year 1849, calls from the united 
 churches of Greensburg and Mt. Pleasant, and not being able to 
 decide what his duty was in the matter, left the question in the 
 hands of Presbytery to answer; they assumed this responsible 
 duty and advised Mr. Moore to accept the calls, and at once dis- 
 solved the relation existing between the Long Run congregation 
 and Mr. Moore. Against this action of Presbytery, Long Run 
 remonstrated. Mr. Moore had a hold on the hearts of the peo- 
 ple, which but few pastors are able to gain. He was a man of 
 scholarly attainments, an earnest and eloquent preacher. 
 
 The congregation now remained vacant about one year and 
 a half, when they gave a call to Rev. F. A. Shearer. Mr. Shear- 
 er remained with this people less than one year. He was in- 
 stalled, June 19th, 185 1. Rev. Jas. R. Hughes preached the 
 sermon. Dr. Jos. Smith presided and charged the pastor and 
 Rev. W. D. Moore charged the people. The following Septem- 
 ber, 1 85 1, Mr. Shearer was released from this charge. It seems 
 this pastorate was entered upon with a good deal of opposition 
 and for this reason so soon terminated. The difficulties in this 
 church had assumed such proportions it became necessary, in 
 the judgment of Presbytery, to take some action ; and this the 
 Presbytery did in writing a letter to the church and also holding 
 a meeting of Presbytery in the church. Their efforts seem to 
 have been blessed. 
 
 On the 22d of September, 1852, the congregation called to 
 be their pastor, Mr. J. A. Means, and on October 19th, of the 
 same year, Mr. Means was ordained and installed over Long 
 Run Church. The ministry of this brother was brief His 
 work for the Master was, however, done, and he said : "It is 
 enough." Mr. Means died, June 3d, 1854, not quite twenty-six 
 years old, having been ordained to the full work of the ministry 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 65 
 
 and having" served this church as its pastor not quite two years. 
 The November following the death of Mr. Means, the con- 
 gregation extended to Rev. S. M. C. Anderson, a call, which Mr. 
 Anderson declined to accept. 
 
 The congregation remained vacant till March 19th, 1855, 
 when they called Mr. Alex. McGaughey, who accepted the call, 
 and at a meeting of Presbytery, held at Long Run, May i6th. 
 1855, Mr. McGaughey was ordained and installed. He opened 
 Presbytery with a sermon on the subject assigned him, Eph. 3:8. 
 Rev. Jas. R. Hughes preached, Rev. Dr. West presided and 
 charged the pastor and Rev. C. C. Riggs gave the charge to the 
 people. This pastorate continued about eight years. Mr. Mc- 
 Gaughey offered his resignation in April, 1862, but the congrega- 
 tion refused to accept it and he remained pastor till near the close 
 of the following year, when he felt it to be his duty to resign, 
 which he did and was released from the pastoral labors of this 
 church. 
 
 Mr. McGaughey was succeeded by Rev. W. D. Moore, who 
 had served this congregation as its third pastor. Mr. Moore was 
 elected February 1st, 1 864, but was not installed and served the 
 church as Stated Supply. This was owing to the disturbed con- 
 dition of the country. Mr. Moore could not get his letter from 
 the Southern Presbytery, where he had been preaching, and in 
 addition to this Long Run had granted him leave of absence for 
 one year to serve as chaplain in the army. Mr. Moore preached 
 for some time after his return from the army, but soon drifted 
 into politics and being defeated in his early aspirations he entered 
 the practice of law, and to this day practices his profession in 
 the city of Pittsburgh. 
 
 The next pastor of this church was Rev. N. H. G. Fife, who 
 was installed, June 23d, 1868. At this service Rev. Watson 
 Hughes, presided; Rev. O. H. Miller, preached; Rev. J. M. Bar- 
 nett, charged the pastor, and Rev. W. W. Ralston, the people. 
 Rev. Mr. Fife was pastor of this church a little over five years. 
 He offered his resignation, September 25th, 1873, which was at 
 first declined by the congregation, but upon the urgent request 
 
66 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 of Mr. Fife, the congregation reconsidered their action and grant- 
 ed his request. The pastorate of Mr. Fife is said to have been 
 very harmonious. 
 
 Rev. John W. Little became the next pastor. He was in- 
 stalled, May, 1874. Rev. J. W. Wightman preached the ser- 
 mon, Rev. J. B. Dicky charged the pastor and Rev. Henry Ful- 
 ton the people. 
 
 March 21st, 1875, Mr. Little offered his resignation. With his 
 request the congregation complied and the church was once more 
 vacant and remained so till November 25th, 1875, when the con- 
 gregation extended to Rev. W. P. Moore, a call, which he ac- 
 cepted and was installed, June 13th, 1876. Rev. W. F. Ewing 
 preached, Rev. J. W. Wightman delivered the charge to the pas- 
 tor and the Rev. R. T. Price the charge to the people; Rev. W. 
 P. Moore was pastor of this church seven years. 
 
 April 20th, 1883, the congregation made out a call for the 
 services of the present pastor, C. P. Cheeseman, who was ordain- 
 ed and installed, June, 1883. Rev. J. D. Shanks presided; Rev. 
 J. C. Meloy preached the sermon; Rev. A. Z. McGogney 
 charged the pastor and Rev. Geo. H. Johnson, the people. This 
 congregation has had ten pastors, which is truly a good record, 
 when we remember the circumstances. One fact is worthy of re- 
 mark; they recalled the first three — Swan, McCandlass and W. 
 D. Moore. Six of these ten, namely : Swan, McCandlass, W. 
 D. Moore, Means, McGaughey and Cheeseman, came to this 
 field as their first charge and were here ordained to the work of 
 the Gospel Ministry. Four of these have been called from earth, 
 namely — Swan, McCandlass, Means and McGaughey. 
 
 We have heard it remarked, and for some time thought it 
 true, that Long Run changes pastors very frequently. Let us 
 see — three of the ten remained as long as health would permit — 
 almost to the end of their lives; two more could have remained 
 as long as they wished, it would seem. Indeed, the people of 
 this congregation are slow to part with the pastors whom they 
 have chosen. 
 
 The following is as correct a list as could be .secured of those 
 who have served as ruling elders in this church: Jos. Collins, 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 67 
 
 John Barns, Adam Kuhn, Jas. Cowan. Robt. Fulton. David 
 Fleming, Jas. Caldwell. John Gray, Jas. Gray, Boyd Ward, Saml. 
 Fleming, Andrew Christy, Saml. Black, R. M. Cavett, J. J. Cow- 
 an, Wm. Weston, Mathew Hawkins, John Lynch, Jas. Simpson, 
 David Kuhn, Jos. Perkins, Jas. Black, Finley Byerley, Wm. Ford, 
 J. M. Brown, J. M. Shaner. 
 
 The records bear witne.ss to the faithfulness of the eldership. 
 They have been men of real worth, who dared to do right. 
 True, they were not always right, but their aim was to keep pure 
 the church and advance the cause of Christ. Their names will 
 go down to their children's children in honorable mention. 
 
 The Sabbath School was organized about 1823. by Mr. Jas. 
 Cowan, and has been kept up, in the summer season ever since. 
 Mr. Swan organized in his day a week-day Bible Class, which he 
 taught as long as health permitted. 
 
 Our duty would not be done in this brief work, should we 
 fail to mention the organization and maintenance of the Ladies' For- 
 eign and Home Mi.ssionary Societies. In the work of the Lord 
 they have taken a lively interest and are adding year by year to 
 the motive power of the church. Their work is the quiet kind 
 that tells for good. 
 
 The church of Long Run has passed through about one 
 hundred and seven years of recorded time. How great the 
 changes and how many, in both church and state ! The first 
 preaching was out of doors, under the shadow of the great oaks. 
 There Finley and Clark and McMillan preached Christ to anxious 
 souls, burdened with the same infirmities that hinder our pro- 
 gress in our journey to the promised Canaan. 
 
 The first meeting house was a log building, the second was 
 of brick, near the site of the present house of worship. The 
 present church building was erected during W. D. Moore's 
 second ministry among the people. 
 
 In the preparation of this history the writer is greatly in- 
 debted to the Rev. W. P. Moore, now of Fredricksburgh, Ohio. 
 
68 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 JEFFERSON. 
 
 BY REV. JOHN m'CLINTOCK. 
 
 Of the early history of this church there are no available ma- 
 terials extant. It is supposed to have existed at the time or soon 
 after the organization of Redstone Presbytery. 
 
 As early as October, 1783, the South Fork of Tenmile is 
 mentioned in the minutes of the Presbytery, at which time Rev. 
 Thaddeus Dodd and afterward other ministers were appointed 
 supplies. As Jefferson is located on the South Fork of Tenmile 
 and no other church in the Presbytery is mentioned by that 
 name, the inference is that was then the name of the church. 
 This seems the more probable from the fact of the contiguity of 
 Jefferson to Muddy Creek or New Providence Church, the two 
 being often spoken of in conjunction when supplies were appoint- 
 ed. In a statistical report made to Presbytery in April, 1824, 
 the total membership of the church, as stated, was thirty. At the 
 beginning of Mr. McClintock's pastorate, in 1839, there were 
 some twenty-five members : ten males and fifteen females. The 
 ruling elders were Abijah McClain, John Gilland and Henry 
 Black. It was not till April, 1 841, a call for the one-third time 
 of Mr. McClintock's time on a salary of ;^ioo was made out, 
 which being accepted. Rev. William Johnson and Rev. Samuel 
 Wilson were appointed to officiate at the installation, which oc- 
 curred on the 29th of June, 1841. This relation continued up 
 to April nth, 1849, when, at the request of the pastor, it was 
 dissolved, that he might give his whole time to New Provi- 
 dence Church. Being thus left vacant, the church of Jefferson 
 united with Waynesburg Church and was statedly supplied for 
 some time by Rev. J. Y. Calhoun, but again became vacant and 
 had only occasional supplies. 
 
 In 1854 application was again made for part of the time of 
 the pastor of New Providence Church, who consented to become 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 69 
 
 Stated Supply and continued to serve in this relation till May, 
 1866. The whole period of service there, including his pastorate 
 and term of supply, was about twenty years. 
 
 In 1870, Rev. Asahel Bronson, D. D., then serving the 
 church of Waynesburg, became Stated Supply part of his time. 
 Dr. Bronson continued to supply that church for some three 
 years. He was succeeded as Stated Supply by Rev. John W. 
 Scott, D. D., in 1874. His term of service was about seven 
 years. Being one of the Professors of the College at Jefferson, 
 the Dr. was accustomed to preach only on alternate Sabbaths, 
 which, at his advanced age, he found to be as much as he could 
 well do. 
 
 The cemetery ground and the lot on which the church in 
 Jefferson stands, were conveyed by deed of Mr. Thomas Hughes, 
 an old residenter of that place, to trustees, for the use and bene- 
 fit of the Presbyterian congregation. 
 
 The building occupied by worshipers in 1839 was a clumsy, 
 antiquated frame, with one door in the side and a broad aisle 
 leading to the pulpit, in front of which there was a stove, only 
 about four feet distant, the steam of which, when heated, was lit- 
 tle less than suffocating to the speaker. As nearly as I can re- 
 member, the dimensions of the house were 25x30 feet, with up- 
 right seats, some of which were claimed as the property of occu- 
 pants. In this house, trying to the flesh, they continued to wor- 
 ship for several years, when at the urgent request of the pastor, 
 it was torn down and the present neat and comfortable brick 
 building was erected at a cost of about $1,100.00. It is some 
 30x35 feet and stands upon a solid rock. Not a few of the wor- 
 •shipers, we trust, who once gladly made it the place of their re- 
 sort, have long since been translated to seats in the upper temple. 
 
 During Mr. McClintock's ministrations at Jefferson, there 
 were sixty additions, forty-eight on examination and twelve on 
 certificate. 
 
 In Dr. Bronson's time six were admitted on examination and 
 in Dr. Scott's time twenty on examination and eight on certifi- 
 
JO PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 cate, making altogether ninety-four. Mr. McClintock's bap- 
 tisms there were: infants, twenty-eight; adults, twenty-five; mak- 
 ing fifty-three; other baptisms, fourteen; total, sixty-seven. 
 The marriages solemnized were eleven. Deaths during his time 
 and the time of others, thirty-eight. Dismissions, twenty. Left 
 without certificate, ten. 
 
 During Dr. Scott's ministrations, contributions for benevo- 
 lent objects, in seven years, as reported on the minutes, were 
 $151.00. What may have been done during the ministry of 
 others is not reported in the sessional records and cannot now be 
 stated. 
 
 For many years there has been a Sabbath School in con- 
 nection with the church; also a Ladies' Missionary Society. At 
 present, however, the latter, we think, has been disbanded. 
 
 From the foregoing narrative, it will be seen that the Jeffer- 
 son Church has at no time been in a flourishing condition. To 
 this result, inconstant supplies and other causes have doubtless 
 contributed. Probably not more than twenty members can now 
 be counted as enrolled. The present elders comprise Mr. James 
 Eaton and Samuel Braden. 
 
 One of the former elders, Charles Gilland, made a donation 
 to the church for the support of the Gospel of the sum of 
 $1,000.00 and Mary Gilland, his sister, left a legacy of $500.00 
 for the same purpose, the interest only to be used. 
 
 We omitted to state in the proper place that Rev. Wm. Mc- 
 Clintock Eaton, one of the sons of Jefferson church, in the year 
 1 884 served the church as Stated Supply several months. In his 
 time, two persons were, on examination, admitted to membership. 
 At sundry times additions were made to the eldership. 
 
 In 1843, David Bell and Wm. Cree, having been chosen, 
 were, on the second Sabbath of September, ordained and installed. 
 November 22, 1858, Charles Gilland and Thomas Scott were ad- 
 ded to the number. Again, January 28th, 1872, James Gil- 
 land and James Eaton were inducted into the ofifice of ruling el- 
 der. Afterward Samuel Braden was elected, having previously 
 been ordained to the office. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 7 1 
 
 NEW PROVIDENCE. 
 
 BY REV. JOHN M CLINTOCK. 
 
 The locality of this church is said to be the oldest settled 
 west of the Monongahela river. 
 
 In his secular history of southwestern Pennsylvania, the 
 Hon. James Veech says: "Of its river border, that formed by 
 the Monongahela was the soonest settled; and of this, that por- 
 tion which after 1767 was found to be in Pennsylvania was the 
 earliest. This was the settlement on Muddy Creek, in (now) 
 Greene county, spreading out northwards toward Tenmile and 
 southwards towards Whiteley Creeks. Like the early settlers in 
 corresponding parts of Fayette county, they had come mostly from 
 the Potomac borders of Maryland and Virginia, the Kittatinny 
 Valley, a few from the Nursery and some from Ireland. John 
 Armstrong's, where Rev. Dr. McMillan preached his second ser- 
 mon in the West, was on Muddy Creek, and in that vicinity is 
 the oldest Presbyterian church in Greene county, for a while the 
 only one. Mr. Armstrong was, doubtless, an acquaintance of Dr. 
 McMillan. Lower down the river in choice locations and up its 
 large affluents, settlements were easily formed. Old Virginia 
 had for a long time made a special business of persecuting the 
 Baptists. Hence, they took refuge on Muddy Creek, Whiteley 
 and Tenmile, lower down on Pikerun and Peter's Creek, at an 
 early day, when they were ministered to by Elders Corbley and 
 the Sutton brothers." 
 
 In this beautiful valley, washed by the waters of the Monon- 
 gahela, our Presbyterian forefathers sought for themselves a 
 home amid the wild woods, set up their altars, planted the stand- 
 ard of the cross and began work for Christ. Theirs was a dan- 
 gerous, as well as a difficult and laborious task. P'or many suc- 
 cessive years these border settlements were subjected to trials 
 and hardships, which none but hardy pioneers could well sur- 
 mount. Besides enduring untold privations, they were annoyed 
 
72 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 by a constant feeling of insecurity, arising from the stealthy and 
 frequent incursions of the much dreaded Indian. On assembUng 
 for rehgious services, it was no uncommon thing for the men to 
 carry with them their trusty rifles, ready for defense. If the cul- 
 ture and polish of those early times were less conspicuous and 
 graceful than the present, the defect was more than compensated 
 by a robustness which served largely to give power of endurance 
 and stability of character, qualities indispensable in that formative 
 period. 
 
 The early settlers were thus better able to breast the storm 
 and bear the winter's severity when houses of worship were few 
 and far between. In allusion to those early times, Doddridge, 
 the author of "Notes on the Life and Manners of the Western 
 Settlers," says: "It was no disparagement to them that their 
 churches were the shady groves and their pulpit a kind of tent 
 constructed of a few rough slabs and covered with clapboards." 
 
 Keeping in mind these things, we shall be better able to 
 comprehend the situation and properly estimate the preliminary 
 work done by our heroic ancestors and feel more sensibly our 
 obligations to them for the precious heritage which, through their 
 toils and prayers, has come down to us. 
 
 Prior to the year 1840 there are no available sessional re- 
 cords of New Providence Church, from which materials can 
 now be gathered for historical detail. Up to that date the chief 
 sources of information are fragmentary items gleaned from the 
 records of the Presbyteries of Redstone and Ohio, together with 
 oral statements, the most reliable that could be obtained from 
 persons living and connected with the church. 
 
 At the organization of Redstone Presbytery, in September, 
 1 78 1, Muddy Creek congregation, jointly with the South Fork 
 of Ten Mile, made application for supplies. Being then recog- 
 nized as a church, its informal organization seems to have been 
 .several years before that date. On the records of the Presby- 
 tery, it is distinguished by the two names. Muddy Creek and 
 New Providence. It has also been popularly called the Glade's 
 Church. As appears from the Presbyterial records for several 
 successive years. Revs. James Power, John McMillan, Thaddeus 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 73 
 
 Dodd, James Dunlap, Joseph Patterson and John Brice, a licen- 
 tiate, were appointed supphes. 
 
 April, 1789, New Providence Church united in a call with 
 the South Fork of Tenniile for the ministerial labors of Rev. 
 James Hughes, which he declined to accept. 
 
 From September of the same year, till some time in 1790, 
 licentiates John McPherrin, John Brice, Robert Marshall and 
 Revs. James Dunlap and James Hughes, officiated as supplies. 
 They were succeeded by Rev. Robert Finley, a minister from 
 North Carolina. 
 
 In 1 791 Rev. Jacob Jennings became a member of Red- 
 stone Presbytery and was appointed to supply New Providence 
 Church part of his time. April 17th, 1792, this church united 
 with Dunlap's Creek in calling Mr. Jennings to the pastorate. In 
 this relation he continued five and a half years and was then al- 
 lowed to devote his whole time to the church of Dunlap's Creek. 
 Of the fruit of his labors here no record is extant. 
 
 By order of the Synod of Virginia, of which the Presbyter}' 
 of Redstone was an integral part, the latter, in 1793, was divided 
 and the Monongahela river was made the boundary line between 
 it and the new Presbytery of Ohio. By this division New Provi- 
 dence Church was placed under the supervision of the latter 
 Presbytery. 
 
 In October, 1798, permission w^as given to New Providence 
 to join with Union (now Kent) Church and also George's Creek, 
 to put in a call for the labors of Mr. James Adams. On accept- 
 ing the call, Mr. Adams was ordained and installed pastor in Oc- 
 tober, 1799. After serving in this relation two and a half years, 
 Mr. Adams was released from the charge of New Providence 
 Church. Of his ministerial success we are unable to speak. 
 
 October 20th, 1802, this church united with that of Jeffer- 
 son in asking for Mr. Cephas Dodd as supply for one year, but 
 for reasons not given in the minutes of Presbytery, the request 
 was not granted. About this time this western region was vis- 
 ited with a gracious baptism of the Holy Spirit. Tradition says 
 it extended to this church, accompanied by the usual bodily af- 
 fections. October 19th, Mr. Cephas Dodd was appointed to 
 
74 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 supply for one year the united congregations of New Providence. 
 Jefferson and Ruff's Creek the whole of his time and order was 
 taken for his ordination at the next meeting of Presbytery. Af- 
 ter his induction into the ministry, Mr. Dodd was married to Miss 
 Ruth, daughter of James Flenniken, one of the ruling elders of 
 this church. 
 
 On closing his ministry here, he became the honored suc- 
 cessor of his father, Rev. Thaddeus Dodd, in the pastoral charge 
 of the churches of Upper and Lower Tenmile. At this juncture. 
 New Providence Church seems to have been left vacant for sev- 
 eral years. In the Presbyterial records it is stated that on the 
 20th of October, 1807, a call was presented by the united con- 
 gregations of New Providence and Jefferson, for the ministerial 
 labors of Mr. Moses Allen, of which he declared his acceptance, 
 and on the 24th of the December following he was ordained and 
 installed, in which services, Rev. Boyd Mercer preached the 
 sermon and Rev. A. Gwyn presided and delivered the charges. 
 Mr. Allen was son-in-law of Rev. John McMillan and is said to 
 have been an able preacher. In this field he remained nine years 
 and was then dismissed to take charge of the church of Raccoon. 
 His successor in this church was Rev. Boyd Mercer, who, in 
 April, 1 81 8, was appointed Stated Supply for one year. He 
 seems not to have attained much distinction in the ministry. 
 
 After remaining vacant for some time, in October, 1820, this 
 church, in union with that of Jefferson, obtained as a supply. 
 Rev. George Van Emmon. On the i8th of April, 1821, a call 
 from said churches for the whole of Mr. Van Emmon's time was 
 given to him, and being accepted, he was installed on the Mon- 
 day following. The Rev. William McMillan preached the usual 
 .sermon and the Rev. Matthew Brown presided and delivered the 
 charges. By order of the Synod of Pittsburgh, in 1825, Mr. 
 Van Emmon and his charges were set over from the Presbytery 
 of Ohio to that of Redstone. F"or the term of fourteen and a 
 half years, Mr. Van Emmon continued to sow in this field the 
 precious seed of gospel truth. His social qualities and evangeli- 
 cal preaching commanded the esteem and approval of his people. 
 On resigning his charge here, April, 1835, Rev. James Baber, 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 75 
 
 from Eastern Virginia, succeeded him in October, 1835, minis- 
 tering as Stated Supply for two years. This church then be- 
 came vacant and was occasionally supplied by Revs. Guthrie, 
 Gillett, Henry, Bristol and Davis, and by licentiates Joseph H. 
 Chambers, John M. Smith and William McMichal. 
 
 RULING ELDERS. 
 
 Of the ruling elders of New Providence Church the first set 
 comprised James Flenniken, John Armstrong, John Crawford 
 and John Flenniken. The first mentioned was esteemed as a pil- 
 lar in the church and ceased not to command the respect and con- 
 fidence of his associates and neighbors. In the spring of 1802 
 he was a commissioner to the General Assembly. He died, Au- 
 gust 25th, 1823, aged seventy-six years. 
 
 John Armstrong was a fair representative of the Scotch-Irish 
 type of religion. Tenacious and firm in his adherence of accept- 
 ed principles, his predilections were strongly in favor of the old 
 paths and his mind firmly set against innovation upon established 
 forms and usages. Having served the church acceptably for 
 many years, he at length laid aside the badge of office for the 
 crown of life. 
 
 For lack of information, we cannot speak of John Crawford 
 with certainty, either as to his Christian attainments, his term of 
 service in the church, or of his ascension to join the sacramental 
 host in Heaven. 
 
 At an early period in the history of this (Greene) county, 
 Elder John Flenniken came from North Carolina and permanent- 
 ly settled in this locality. Prior to his immigration, he was a 
 member of the convention, which met at Charlotte, in the county 
 of Mecklenburg, on the 19th of May, 1775. He was also a 
 signer of the famous Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence 
 adopted by that convention, from which Thomas Jefferson drew 
 some of his glowing, patriotic sentiments, embodied in the one 
 adopted in 1776. From this county Mr. Flenniken once was 
 honored with a seat in the Legislature. For a number of years 
 he was also an Associate Judge. Being twice married, he was the 
 father of a numerous family, one of whom, Robert P., was a lead- 
 ing member of the House of Representatives, a Minister to Den- 
 
76 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 mark and a Territorial Judge. Hannah, his daughter, became 
 the second wife of the Rev. Asa Brooks, pastor of the churches 
 of French Creek and Clarksburg, West Virginia. Mr. Flenni- 
 ken died at an advanced age crowned with many honors and 
 blest with a hope full of immortality. 
 
 As successors in office, Andrew McClelland, Henry Jen- 
 nings, Robert Morrison, Josias Lowrie, William McClelland and 
 Samuel Harper are worthy of mention. 
 
 In this community Mr. Harper was a prominent member. 
 He was son-in-law of Dr. John McMillan, having married Mrs. 
 Jane Moorhead, then a widow. Mr. Harper is spoken of as hav- 
 ing been a very hospitable and worthy citizen, once honored with 
 the Sheriffalty of the county. Of the character and standing of 
 his associates in the eldership, we are unable to speak, as no 
 available materials are at hand. 
 
 David, father of Hon. James Veech, having served as an el- 
 der in this church for a number of years, in 1832 removed to 
 Dunlap's Creek Church and afterward to Uniontovvn, where he 
 became a member of the session of that church and where he 
 died in the eighty-fifth year of his age. Before leaving New 
 Providence Church, Mr. Veech gave in marriage his only 
 daughter to Rev. Joel Stoneroad, then pastor of the church of 
 Uniontown. 
 
 OTHER ITEMS. 
 
 In this connection certain historical items may be now in- 
 troduced. The exact date of the first house erected by New 
 Providence congregation cannot now be determined. Tradition 
 says it was a log structure, located about a quarter of a mile dis- 
 tant from the present building. In that house of primitive style, 
 among others who proclaimed the Gospel, was the distinguished 
 Dr. Ewing, of Philadelphia, while on his tour as one of the Com- 
 missioners to locate the Mason and Dixon's line, in the year 
 1784. The ground on which stands the present edifice was pur- 
 chased from John Crawford, on which was erected a log build- 
 ing, 30x35 feet. In this house the congregation worshiped for 
 more than a quarter of a century. In describing the building, 
 Hon. James Veech says: "When we first began to attend church 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. TJ 
 
 and during all our residence there, the building was an old log 
 one, in which I have listened to long sermons in the winter, with- 
 out fire. It was an open house, two stories, no floor aloft and the 
 windows often broken." In the year 1836 this old uncomforta- 
 ble house gave place to a new brick, 43x53 feet, at a cost of 
 some $1,500. A brick church of similar dimensions, in the year 
 1852 was erected in the village of Carmichaels. The cost of the 
 ground, house and fixtures was some ^2,300. 
 
 ENDOWMENTS. 
 
 By will of William Hale, bearing date, April ist, 1803, this 
 church became legatee to a farm of 130 acres. To the trustees 
 possession was given, March 31st, 1804, by the executor, Joseph 
 Brant, at which time one year's rent of $80 became due, payable 
 in "good whiskey" at forty cents per gallon. In this era of ad- 
 vanced temperance sentiment, the trustees could not be induced 
 to risk their reputation, by contracting for the payment of rent in 
 whiskey, either good or bad, as a means to procure material aid 
 for the support of the ministry and for other purposes. 
 
 TRUSTEES. 
 
 From an early period the finances of this church have been 
 managed by a Board of Trustees appointed by the Legislature in 
 1804. With few exceptions these men have passed away. For 
 their work's sake they deserve to be held in grateful remem- 
 brance. Theirs has been a work not only gratuitous and re- 
 sponsible, but oftentimes perplexing, demanding much thought, 
 wise counsels and forecast. 
 
 RULING ELDERS OF 1 839. 
 
 At the begining of the present pastorate, the ruling elders 
 were six in number. They were men high in reputation in the 
 community, men of integrity and moral worth, men of piety and 
 large influence. 
 
 Of John Rea, Sr., it may be said his religious character was 
 strongly marked by tender devotional feeling. Under the preach- 
 ing of the word he was often seen in tears and could seldom lead 
 in social prayer without evincing strong emotion. In 1836 he 
 was Commissioner to the General Assembly in Pittsburgh, prior 
 
78 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 to the disruption of the church. He died in hope, November, 
 1847. 
 
 Daniel, son of Hugh Stephenson, was a man of exemplary 
 character, a regular attendant on the public means of grace in 
 summer and winter, although living some seven miles distant 
 from the church. His translation to the better land was preceded 
 by a long series of afflictions, which he bore with commendable 
 submission. He died trusting in the merits of the Redeemer, 
 September, 1856. 
 
 George Davis, early indoctrinated in Bible truth and firmly 
 adhering to his religious convictions, shared largely the respect 
 and confidence of both pastor and congregation. Unostenta- 
 tious and without guile, he sought to please God by a life con- 
 formable to his will. He fell asleep in Jesus, November, 1861. 
 
 William was the son and successor in office of John Arm- 
 strong. From choice and sympathy he was in full accord with 
 the church in which he had his birth and training. Naturally he 
 possessed, in a high degree, those domestic and social qualities 
 so well suited to please and ingratiate. A lover of hospitality, 
 his house was ever open for the entertainment of guests. Few 
 excelled him in the kindly greetings he was wont to give to a 
 large circle of acquaintances and friends. Presbyterial and Syn- 
 odical meetings were to him occasions of special interest and en- 
 joyment. Supported by the gracious assurances of the Master, 
 he departed this life, December, 1861. 
 
 Henry was the son of Hugh Barclay, an early settler and 
 representative in the Legislature from this county. In his offi- 
 cial life Elder Barclay possessed largely the esteem of the con- 
 gregation and of the members of session. In the spring of 1858, 
 he, with his large and interesting family, emigrated and became a 
 resident of Iowa. 
 
 Elder Charles Swan, of English ancestry, was the son of 
 Charles, one of the early .settlers on Muddy Creek. Prompt, 
 conscientious and exemplary, he ruled well, both in his own and 
 in the house of God. For twenty-eight years he was a member 
 of the Board of Trustees and as treasurer, did much to keep the 
 finances of the church in a ^ood condition. On three of his sons 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 79 
 
 the mantle of the eldership has fallen. To the regret of his 
 many friends, Mr. Swan removed to Ohio, where he closed his 
 useful life. 
 
 SKETCH OF THE PRESENT PASTORATE. 
 
 At a meeting of the Presbytery of Washington, in June, 
 1839, a licentiate of that body had just obtained permission to 
 itinerate beyond its bounds. His face was set westward and his 
 purpose formed to pitch his tent somewhere in the widening mis- 
 sionary fields then open in the new States and territories. Before 
 taking leave of Presbytery, however, a fellow licentiate, Mr. John 
 M. Smith, appeared, and through his urgent solicitation, the 
 present writer, with some hesitation, was induced to visit this 
 field. On the first Sabbath of July, 1839, he delivered to the 
 church of New Providence, his first message, from 2 Cor. 9:15. 
 After preaching some two months as supply, a unanimous call 
 for two-thirds of his time, on a salary of ;^300 was made out, 
 moderated by Rev. Joel Stoneroad. The call having been duly 
 accepted, January 15th, 1840, was fixed as the time for ordina- 
 tion and installation. Rev. A. G. F'airchild was appointed to 
 preach the usual sermon and Rev. Joel Stoneroad to preside and 
 deliver ihe charges. The other third of the pastor's time was to 
 be given to the church of Jefferson, on a salary of $100. This 
 arrangement continued until the spring of 1849, ^^hen at the pas- 
 tor's request, he was released from the charge at Jefferson, with a 
 view of giving his whole time to New Providence Church, with a 
 promise of $350 salary and permission to preach on alternate 
 Sabbath evenings at Greensboro. 
 
 January 14th, 1848, Paul Rea, John N. Flenniken and Wil- 
 liam Crawford were added to the eldership. After serving in 
 this office ten years, Mr. Flenniken emigrated and made his 
 home in Iowa. Mr. Crawford, after twelve years acceptable ser- 
 vice, rested from his labors and entered into rest, May 19th, i860. 
 
 MEMBERSHIP. 
 
 The enrolled membership of this church in 1839 numbered 
 fifty-five, of whom sixteen were males and thirty-nine females. 
 Since that date there has been a steady, though moderate growth, 
 by accessions, mainly on profession. At the close of the first 
 
8o PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 decade there were fifty-eight additions; in the second decade, 
 ninety-five, and during the third, seventy-one. In the mean 
 time our membership has been greatly depleted and our moral 
 and pecuniary strength annually diminished by deaths and re- 
 movals. Since January, 1848, two additional sets of elders have 
 been invested with official authority. These were Solon B. 
 Swan, John Rea and Thomas L. Cummins, December 12th, 1858; 
 also, February, 1873, Ralston Williams, Aaron Gregg and Sam- 
 uel Bunting. Mr. Cummins, after serving many years with 
 much zeal and ability, together with his large, intelligent and 
 well trained famil}^, left us and became a resident of Des Moines, 
 Iowa. Ralston Williams, also, after a brief term in the elder- 
 ship, left this for another church in Monongahela City. 
 
 For many years in its official acts the session of this church 
 has had the good fortune to harmonize. With few exceptions, 
 church members have also been careful to study the things that 
 make for peace. 
 
 Until the spring of 1873, New Providence Church never 
 sustained a separate and independent existence. From its earli- 
 est recognition, it had a connection with Dunlap's Creek, George's 
 Creek, Ruff"'s Creek, Tent, Jefferson and Greensboro. While 
 Jefferson made part of the pastoral charge, there were in that 
 church fifty-three additions. The members at Greensboro were 
 mainly connected with New Providence and so continued until 
 June, 1867, when, by order of Presbytery, they became a sep- 
 arate organization, with a membership of thirty-eight, increased 
 to fifty in 1873. 
 
 BEQUEST. 
 
 In October, 1866, a bequest of ;^500 came into the hands of 
 the trustees from the estate of Alexander Davidson, Captain of 
 Company F, of the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry. This bequest 
 was applied in 1867 to the repairing of the two houses of wor- 
 ship belonging to the congregation. 
 
 BENEVOLENT CONTRIBUTIONS. 
 
 During a period of thirty-seven years contributions were 
 as follows : P"or Home Missions, Jg866; Foreign Missions, ;^i,- 
 402; Education, $1,436; Publication, 1^147 ; Church Erection, 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 51 
 
 S404; Ministerial Relief Fund, $26^; Freedmen, $155; Sustenta- 
 tion, 530; making an aggregate of ;^4,697. 
 
 For several years the plan adopted by the session for raising 
 money for benevolent objects, is that of districting the congrega- 
 tion and appointing collectors to receive the offerings at specified 
 times, usually every two months. 
 
 For contingent expenses Sabbath collections are taken up. 
 And for the payment of the pastor's salary, voluntary subscrip- 
 tions are secured. 
 
 In commemoration of the reunion of the Old and New 
 School branches of the Presbyterian Church, the General As- 
 sembly recommended the raising of a five million fund. To this 
 fund this church contributed the sum of ;S550, about one-half of 
 which was expended on home objects. 
 
 RELIGIOUS MEANS AND OBSERVANCES. 
 
 Besides the usual Sabbath services, the weekly prayer meet- 
 ing, family religion and Christian education have received a 
 measure of attention. Many of the children and youth in years 
 past were encouraged to memorize and recite the Shorter Cate- 
 chism. For these recitations copies of the Bible were donated. 
 
 PASTORAL WORK. 
 
 In summarizing the pastoral work done in the congregation 
 from 1839 to 1887, the following items may be reported, including 
 a period of forty-eight years : 
 
 Sermons delivered, not including addresses and lectures, 
 4,540. Additions on profession and certificate, 400. Baptism of 
 infants, 159, and of adults, 102; total, 261. Members dismissed 
 to other churches, 125. Removed without certificate, stricken 
 from the roll and dealt with by the session, fifty-eight. Deaths, 
 eighty. Present number, 105. 
 
 TEMPERANCE. 
 
 Most of the members of this church for many years have 
 been pledged to total abstinence from all intoxicants. Members 
 of the Sabbath School, also, of proper understanding, are en- 
 couraged to thus pledge themselves. A member who for some 
 
82 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 time embarked in distilling was suspended. Others known to 
 drink to intoxication have been disciplined. 
 
 CO-OPERATION OF LADIES. 
 
 As helpers in beneficent work in the interest of the church, 
 the lady members have been greatly useful. In their social meet- 
 ings for prayer and other purposes and in their private devotions 
 and missionary efforts, they have done much to encourage the 
 pastor and to strengthen his hands. In June, 1872, the ladies or- 
 ganized a Missionary Society, the second formed in the bounds 
 of the Presbytery. This society meets monthly for prayer, con- 
 ference and other objects in the interest of the cause and does 
 much to swell the contributions to the cause of missions. 
 
 SABBATH SCHOOL. 
 
 In the department of church work the Sabbath School holds 
 an important place. It is matter of regret that in the schools of 
 this church but few materials have been preserved for historic de- 
 tails. Of the exact time of organization there seems to be no ex- 
 isting record. It is supposed to be one of the earliest schools, 
 as to organization, in the county. For a considerable time after 
 its formation, the method of instruction comprised Bible reading, 
 reciting Scripture, Hymns and the Catechism. In some in- 
 stances large portions of Scripture and sacred poetry were 
 memorized. 
 
 Since the erection of the church in Carmichaels, two schools 
 have been in working order. Both are regularly supplied with 
 the periodicals of the Board of Publication. By contributions 
 raised in the schools, the publications are paid for. 
 
 ADDITIONAL ELDERS. 
 
 On the eighth day of August, 1880, Mr. Josiah H. Rea and 
 Mr. Ellis B. Bailey, being duly elected and having signified their 
 acceptance of the office, were ordained and installed ruling elders. 
 
 As a church, God has given to us many proofs of his pa- 
 ternal favor. In a spiritual point of view, he has fulfilled his 
 pledge to the children of the fathers, favored as they are with 
 the means of grace and with a place in Israel. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 53 
 
 Though it is not our joy to speak of any powerful and ex- 
 tensive revival, yet upon us mercy drops have occasionally fallen 
 and seasons of refreshing and ingathering have marked our pro- 
 gress. These tokens of the divine favor have nerved us for toil 
 in the vineyard and cheered us in our pilgrimage. When the 
 Lord Cometh to write up the people, it will be found that this 
 and that man were born in Zion. On various occasions, besides 
 quickening the zeal and imparting fresh vitality to the member- 
 ship, accessions of ten, twenty or more have served to swell our 
 ranks. A survey of the past may well beget serious reflections. 
 The fathers and mothers in Israel, where are they ? Active once 
 in laying the foundation for the church's growth, long since their 
 mortal remains have been laid to rest in the adjacent cemetery. 
 From their lowly resting place, a voice silent, though eloquent, 
 seems to say to us: "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it 
 with thy might." 
 
 Recalling past historical details may serve also the end of 
 prompting to humility. Unlike others we could name, this 
 church has done little towards furnishing the Gospel field with 
 laborers. Of the youth who became pious under former pas- 
 tors, we can point to no one in the ministry. And since the be- 
 ginning of the present pastorate, though several young men re- 
 ceived a college education, only two members of this church have 
 entered the ministry — Hugh Aretas Barclay and John Calvin Mc- 
 Clintock. The former of these is no longer enrolled among the 
 ministers of the Gospel. This fact is humiliating and calls for 
 serious thought. That this review may serve to strengthen the 
 bonds of Christian brotherhood and lift us up to a higher plane 
 of personal consecration is the earnest prayer of the author of 
 these lines. 
 
 SUPPLEMENTARY. 
 
 On September 8th, 1876, New Providence Church held a 
 centenary meeting which proved to be an enjoyable occasion. 
 At the hour of 10 o'clock, a. m., the congregation convened and 
 was organized by the election of Paul Rea, as President ; S. B. 
 Swan, as Vice President and John Armstrong, Secretary. 
 
 After prayer by Rev. Francis Downey, a Baptist minister. 
 
84 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 the congregation sang the Coronation hymn. The pastor then 
 .stated that Rev. Joel Stoneroad, who was expected to be present, 
 could not attend. A letter was read from Hon. James Veech, 
 who had been invited, expressing regret that he could not be 
 present. 
 
 Rev. J. C. McClintock, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, 
 of Burlington, Iowa, read selections from the Scriptures. Hymn 
 647, of the Hymnal, was now sung, after which the historical 
 discourse prepared by the pastor was delivered, at the close of 
 which the choir sang from "Pure Gold" the good old way. 
 
 Revs. McClintock, son of the pastor, H. O. Rosborough, 
 John Huston, of the M. E. Church and W. S. Danley, of the C. 
 P. Church, being called on, entertained the audience with remin- 
 iscences and appropriate remarks. 
 
 ADDENDA. 
 
 In the year 1882, the congregation took down and rebuilt 
 the church in the country on a more eligible site, at a cost of 
 about ;^i,5oo. 
 
 The church in Carmichaels has also been rebuilt in modern 
 style and neatly refurnished at a cost of some ^2,500. At the 
 rededication in April, 1887, Revs. M. C. Bailey, and Dr. James I. 
 Brownson and Dr. James Dinsmore, classmates of the pastor, 
 were present and took part in the services. 
 
 Of the members in communion in 1840, only three are now 
 on our roll as survivors. 
 
 The marriages solemnized number 207. 
 
 The pastor is now in his forty-ninth year of service in this 
 congregation and is hopeful of doing still further service for the 
 Master, to whom he is greatly indebted and to whom be all the 
 praise for any good accomplished. 
 
 GEORGE'S CREEK. 
 
 BY REV. H. O. ROSBOROUGH. 
 
 The congregation of George's Creek was collected by Mr. 
 James Power, a licentiate of the Presbytery of New Castle, who 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 85 
 
 visited this county in the spring of the year 1774. There is no 
 one living, perhaps, who knows when the first sermon within its 
 bounds was preached. It is presumed, however, that at least 
 three years before the Declaration of American Independence 
 was made there was Presbyterian preaching in the neighborhood ; 
 for the lot of ground on which Mt. Moriah Church is erected was 
 conveyed to the Presbyterians by Joseph Caldwell in the year 
 1773. The same year a small log church was commenced and 
 this is known to have been the first house of worship built by 
 any denomination within the limits of what is now Fayette coun- 
 ty, Pa. The house and location were called Mt. Moriah, but the 
 people worshiping in it were called the congregation of George's 
 Creek. After standing about half a century it was so far decay- 
 ed as to be no longer fit for occupancy ; it was removed and near 
 its site a school house was built which long served as a place for 
 regular preaching. Finally, in the year 1858, the school house 
 becoming unsuitable for the size and convenience of the congre- 
 gation worshiping there, the third and present house, on the same 
 ground, was built at an expense of ;gi,ioo, and on the 3d of 
 March following, it was free from debt, dedicated to the worship 
 of the triune God. About ten years after the first preaching 
 at Mt. Moriah, the members of Presbyterian families on the 
 north side of the creek had so far increased that Presbytery 
 granted them as many supplies as were granted to Mt. Moriah, 
 and this part of the congregation was called Lower George's 
 Creek and the old place Upper George's Creek. Mr. Power re- 
 turned cast of the mountains in the fall of 1774, and having re- 
 ceived ordination from his Presbytery, finally, in 1776, removed 
 with his family to this county and took up his residence on De- 
 lap's Creek, now called Dunlap's Creek. Here he remained 
 about two years and extended his labors over the greater part of 
 the territory now embraced in the counties of Westmoreland and 
 Fayette. At this time the principal Presbyterian families on 
 George's Creek were the following, viz.: Henry Robison, Jo- 
 seph Caldwell, David Frame, Robt. Ritchie, Wm. Hill, Robt. 
 McClain, Theophilus Phillips, Sr., Philip Dils, Sr., John Hill, 
 John Pollock, James Barclay, Thos. Ramsay, Enoch Abraham, 
 
86 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 Paul Laish, Jas. Cross, Henry Jennings, John Wilson and George 
 Wilson, from whom George's Creek and George's township re- 
 ceive their names. In 1778 Mr. Power removed to Mt. Pleasant, 
 'out continued to supply occasionally at George's Creek, as did 
 also the Rev. James Dunlap, afterward settled at Laurel Hill. 
 
 In 1 78 1 the Presbytery of Redstone was constituted by the 
 Synod of New York and Philadelphia and held its first meeting 
 at Pigeon Creek in the fall of that year. P"rom that time the 
 congregation received occasional supplies from the Presbytery. 
 The church was not regularly supplied until the year 1788, when 
 the Rev. James Finley, by appointment of Presbytery, ordained 
 to the eldership, Henry Robison, Jas. Caldwell, David Frame, 
 Robt. Ritchie, Wm. Hill and Robt. McCIain. The number of 
 communicants was now about fifty. Among the supplies which 
 at that period were sent them by Presbytery we notice the names 
 of Thaddeus Dodd and John Brice. 
 
 In 1789 the people of Lower George's Creek purchased a lot 
 of ground of Richard Brown and erected a log building about 
 twenty feet square, which they occupied as a place of worship in 
 the winter. In the summer, in pleasant weather, they held their 
 services in the grove. In the following winter they united with 
 Dunlap's Creek in presenting a call to Rev. Samuel Porter, which 
 he declined in favor of one from Polk Run and Congruity. 
 
 In the fall and winter of I790-'9I they were regularly sup- 
 plied by the ministrations of the Rev. Robt. M. Finley, who had 
 recently come from South Carolina. He introduced Watts' ver- 
 sion of the Psalms, in consequence of which, some of the con- 
 gregation, among whom were 'Squire Ross, Thos. Ramsay and 
 James Cross, withdrew and connected themselves with the Asso- 
 ciate Reformed Church. Mr. Finley soon afterwards removed to 
 Kentucky, where having been suspended from the ministry for 
 intemperance, he joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 In 1 79 1 the congregation north of the creek enlarged their 
 church lot by a purchase from Lsaac Phillips, Sr., and set about 
 erecting a frame meeting house 48x36. This was not finished 
 for a long time after; standing so long the people called it the 
 "Old Frame." From this time the congregation enjoyed the 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 87 
 
 visits of more frequent supplies, among whom were Wm. Swan, 
 Geo. Hill, Thos. Marquis, Boyd Mercer, Jacob Jennings, Thos. 
 Moore and David Smith. In the year 1816, this building, which 
 had become quite untenantable, was thoroughly repaired and 
 partly renewed at an expense of near ^1,000. About this time 
 Alex. McClelland attempted to alienate the property from the 
 congregation, but was defeated by A. Oliphant, Philip Dils and J. 
 W. Nicholson, who succeeded in perfecting the title to the Pres- 
 byterian church. Again, in 1836, the house was repaired at a 
 cost of about $6oo. The pulpit was at this time changed 
 from the west side to the north end, closing the door at the north 
 end and still leaving the doors at the south end and east side. 
 Finally, in 1865, this house was again repaired, at a cost of ^i,- 
 100. The house was now for the first time plastered, the pulpit 
 was lowered and the door in the east side closed up, leaving the 
 double door in the south end and making the house more comfor- 
 table than at any period of the seventy-four years of its existence ; 
 and this arrangement remains to this day, July, 1887. The early 
 supplies were Dr. J. Power, Dr. John McMillan, Thaddeus Dodd, 
 John Brice, James Hughes, Joseph Patterson, Jas. Dunlap, Jos. 
 Smith, John McPherrin, Sam'l Porter, Boyd Mercer, Robt. Mar- 
 shall and Wm. Swan, who probably preached the first sermon at 
 Mt. Moriah, or at least, in the neighborhood, George Hill, Thos. 
 Marquis, Jacob Jennings, Thos. Moore, James Finley, &c. 
 
 The first pastor was David Smith. Presbytery met at 
 George's Creek, August 20th, 1794, and ordained him pastor of 
 George's Creek and Tent (the Tent at that time including Union- 
 town.) This relation was dissolved in the fall of 1797. 
 
 James Adams was the second pastor. He was ordained and 
 installed at George's Creek, October i6th, 1799. His pastoral 
 charge included New Providence and Tent, or as then called. 
 Muddy Creek and Union. In 1808 he resigned George's Creek. 
 
 Ashbel Green Fairchild was the third pastor. In the fall of 
 181 7, Mr. Fairchild, then twenty-two j'ears of age, a licentiate of 
 the Presbytery of Jersey, began preaching in this region, under 
 the direction of the Western Missionary Society. In the follow- 
 ing spring he was appointed supply, for one-half his time, and 
 
88 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 in July, was ordained as an evangelist. For the first three years 
 he supplemented his salary by teaching. When he came, the 
 church numbered ten members, one of whom. Henry Jennings, 
 was an elder. In 1822 Dr. Fairchild was installed pastor of the 
 churches of George's Creek, Morgantown and Greensboro, with 
 a salary of ;$333.33. In 1827, he resigned Morgantown and 
 Greensboro, and was installed over Tent one half his time at a 
 salary of ^200. In 1829 there was a great revival in the George's 
 Creek Church. Within one year eighty persons united with the 
 church. On account of an attack of a disease of the lungs, Dr. 
 Fairchild spent the winter of 1833 and '34 in the South and his 
 pulpits were supplied by Rev. James McDougall, his brother-in- 
 law. In 1836 his salary was raised to ^500, in consequence of a 
 call he received to Pigeon Creek. In April, 1854, Dr. Fairchild 
 resigned his charge of this church, having served it as supply 
 and pastor for thirty-six and a half years. Dr. Fairchild remain- 
 ed pastor of the Tent church until his death, June 30th, 1864. 
 On July 2d the four elders of Tent church deposited his body be- 
 side kindred dust in the cemetery, at Old Frame, Pa. On this 
 solemn occasion a large assembly listened to a sermon by Rev. 
 H. O. Rosborough and to an eloquent oration on the character 
 of the deceased, by his old and much attached friend, Rev. Sam'l 
 Wilson, D. D. Nine years after, Dr. F's. devoted wife was buried 
 by his side. No man ever lived in this neighborhood who let 
 his light shine more widely or more brightly. He was a pro- 
 found classical scholar, a sound theologian, an impressive preach- 
 er, a dignified and influential Presbyter and a model Christian 
 gentleman. 
 
 Hugh O. Rosborough, the fourth pastor, a licentiate of 
 Washington Presbytery and twenty-seven years of age, com- 
 menced preaching in this church the last Sabbath of July, 1854. 
 On the 5th of June, 1855, he was ordained and installed by Red- 
 stone Presbytery, with a salary of $500. On this occasion Rev. 
 Mr. Wallace preached. Rev. John McClintock charged the pastor 
 and Rev. Joel Stoneroad the people. During the last twenty- 
 •seven years Mr. Rosborough preached one-fourth of his time in 
 adjacent churches, viz.: Four years at Mt. Washington, twelve 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. . 89 
 
 years at Springhill Furnace and eleven years at Greensboro. In 
 September, 1872, the salary at George's Creek Church alone was 
 increased to $600. Old Frame, on north side of creek, was built 
 in 1 79 1. Mt. Moriah Church, five miles distant and on south 
 side of the creek, also a frame, was built in 1859. Rosborough 
 Chapel, in Smithfield, a brick building, was built in 1885, the 
 house and ground costing about $2,700. Also George's Creek 
 Church has a part interest in the stone church at New Geneva 
 and a part interest in the Frame church at VVoodbridge town. A 
 frame house, with seventeen acres of land attached was bought. 
 March 31st, 1866, of L. S. Hough, Esq., executor of the estate 
 of A. G. Fairchild, D. D., the same being the house of Dr. F. and 
 the home of his widow, until it was sold for the sum of $2,188. 
 Members, who have become ministers, are the following: Revs. 
 George Hill, John Crozier, John VVray, Jacob Pentzer, Valentine 
 Pentzer, Wm. Hanna and Geo. L. Diffenbaugh. During Dr. Fair- 
 child's pastorate 417 members were received. After deaths, dis- 
 missions, suspensions, &c., 118 members remained when he re- 
 signed. Upwards of 200 had been dismissed to other churches. 
 During Mr. Rosborough's pastorate to date, July, 1887, 313 
 members have been received. About 175 are now living within 
 the bounds of the congregation. On account of an attack of 
 of vertigo, March 14th, 1886, Mr. Rosborough was not able to 
 preach for a year. He is now preaching occasionally, as health 
 permits. 
 
 [And at this date, November, 1888, regularly, and with 
 health almost, if not entirely restored. — Eds.] 
 
 LITTLE REDSTONE. 
 
 BY REV. B. M. KERR. 
 
 This church was organized by the Rev. Jacob Jennings in a 
 log cabin that stood close to where the Township Hall now 
 stands. The year of its organization is uncertain. The author 
 
go PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 of "Old Redstone," Rev. Dr. Joseph Smith, fixes its date in the 
 year 1785. There is no evidence that this was the case. The 
 year of its organization is supposed to have been 1797, although 
 the loss of the early church records renders positive evidence 
 upon that point unobtainable. For the same reason the names 
 of the constituent members of the organization cannot be given. 
 The first ruling elders chosen were Joseph Lyon, ordained about 
 1799, John Blythe and John Wells, 1805. Among those who 
 served as elders in the early history of the church may also be 
 mentioned William Steele, John Johnston, John Hazlip and Da- 
 vid Hough, ordained, 181 5; then John McKennan and Peter 
 Umrickhouse, 1820; John Gormley and Wm. Forsythe, 1832; 
 John Steele, Nicholas Baker and Jesse H. Duncan, 1836; Henry 
 Barkman, 1853; William Hough, Joseph Wells and James Cum- 
 mings, January 23d, 1858; Joshua V. Gibbons and Wm. Parkhill, 
 April 9th, 1859; S. R. Nutt, Wm. F. Hough, John Reed and 
 Henry Cook, July 5th, 1873, and Sam'l Wakefield, 1884. 
 
 Little Redstone Church was supplied with preaching by the 
 pastors of Dunlap's Creek Church, and when Mr. Jennings ended 
 his pastorate. Rev. Wm. Johnston took charge. During his 
 term of service the organization of Little Redstone was discon- 
 tinued and its members transferred to the Brownsville Presby- 
 terian Church. In 1844 Little Redstone was reorganized by the 
 election of William Steele, John Steele, John Blythe and John 
 Wells, as ruling elders. A brick church was built in 1845, about 
 a half mile north of the old location, William Elliott, William 
 Forsythe and William G. Patterson being the building commit- 
 tee, and a burying ground laid out. 
 
 The Rev. Thomas Martin assumed the pastorate and re- 
 mained until April 13th, 1852, when he was succeeded by the 
 Rev. Robert M. Wallace, January 28th, 1853, and ordained and 
 installed, June 15th, 1853. This relation continued until Febru- 
 ary, 17th, 1864. 
 
 The Rev. Joseph H. Stevenson followed. May 4th, 1864, 
 and was ordained and installed, October I4tli, 1864. On the 
 24th of April, 1866, Mr. Stevenson presented to the Presbytery 
 a request from the two churches to be recognized as separate and 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 9 1 
 
 distinct organizations. The Presbytery acceded to the request, 
 and constituted the elders residing in the bounds of Little Red- 
 stone Church, together with the pastor, as the Session of the Lit- 
 tle Redstone Church. 
 
 After a pastorate of nearly four years, Mr. Stevenson re- 
 signed and was released by the Presbytery, April 29th, 1868. 
 His successors to the present time have been, Revs. George 
 Scott, Stated Supply, 1868; Robert R. Gailey, ordained and in- 
 stalled, June nth, 1872; C. C. B. Duncan, installed, May 20th, 
 1880; J. T. Crumrine, installed, May, 1883. and B. M. Kerr, Sta- 
 ted Supply, April 17th, 1887. The present membership is about 
 eighty-seven. The Sabbath School, under the efficient Superin- 
 tendent, Mr. Wm. F. Hough, is kept open only during the sum- 
 mer season and is quite flourishing. 
 
 SOMERSET. 
 
 BY REV. J. C. MELOY. 
 
 Somerset, the county seat of Somerset county, is one of the 
 most beautiful towns in Western Pennsylvania. It is delight- 
 fully situated on a sandy knoll looking out to the east upon a 
 fertile scope of countrj'- and a mile away to the west, upon the 
 foot-hills of the Allegheny mountains. It is a very pleasant 
 summer resort and is visited by a goodly number of people who 
 desire a quiet resting place during "the heated term." The 
 church here, was doubtless organized, near the close of the last 
 century, probably in the year 1796, but by whom, or under what 
 circumstances, is unknown at the present time, all the earlier 
 records of the church having been lost in a disastrous fire which 
 occurred in 1872. The name of Somerset appears for the first 
 time in the minutes of Redstone Presbytery, in a list of churches 
 asking for supplies, at a meeting held on the i8th of October, 
 
92 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 1796. We infer from this record that the church was organized 
 a short time before that, the Presbytery having failed to make 
 any note of the fact. The congregation, probably, depended 
 upon supplies, on up to the year 1817. as there is no evidence 
 that a pastor had ever been settled among them before that time. 
 The first record of a settlement is dated, October 21st, 1817, and 
 reads as follows: "It was resolved to hold a meeting at Somer- 
 set, on the first Wednesday of December, at 12 o'clock, for the 
 purpose of ordaining and installing Mr. Ross in his charge." At 
 the October meeting "Mr. John Ross was examined on his ex- 
 perimental acquaintance with religion, theology, the learned lan- 
 guages and church history," and Presbytery sustained his an- 
 swers as parts of trial for ordination. The meeting at Somerset 
 was held on the 3d of December, with three ministers present, 
 viz.: Revs. Francis Herron, James Graham and Thomas Hunt. 
 After the propounding of the constitutional questions, Mr. Ross 
 was ordained and installed. Mr. Graham preached the sermon 
 and Mr Hunt presided and gave the charge. This relation con- 
 tinued a little less than two years and in October, 18 19, Presby- 
 tery granted the request of Mr. Ross to be released. After this 
 there was a protracted vacancy, during which time the church 
 resorted to its long accustomed plan of asking Presbytery to 
 send supplies. An old member of the church affirms, that about 
 the year 1827, Rev. Stephen Frontis, a Frenchman, was pastor 
 for about twelve months, a fact not referred to in the minutes of 
 the Presbytery. It is recorded, that at a meeting of Presbytery, 
 held in the Congruity Church, on the 15th of June, 1830, "a call 
 was presented to the Presbytery, from the congregation of Som- 
 erset, for one-half of the ministerial labors of Mr. S. Howel Ter- 
 ry, with the exception of every eighth Sabbath, in which they 
 promise him all they can raise by subscription. A like call was 
 presented from the congregation of "Genner," for the other half of 
 Mr. Terry's labors, with a similar exception, in which they prom- 
 ised him ;^I20 per annum, it being understood that the balance 
 of Mr. Terry's support would be furnished by the Board of Mis- 
 sions of the General Assembly." Mr. Terry accepted and was 
 ordained and "installed as the regular pastor of the united con- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 93 
 
 gregations of Somerset and Genncr," July 7th, 1830. He con- 
 tinued pastor until the autumn of 1833. 
 
 About 1836 Rev. Robert M. Finley became pastor or Stated 
 Supply and served the church for a number of years. In April, 
 1841, supplies are again appointed by Presbytery and so contin- 
 ued to be for sometime. His successor was Mr. Henry Davis, who 
 took charge of the congregation about the year 1845 and con- 
 tinued one year. 
 
 He was followed about the year 1849, by Rev. Peter Has- 
 singer, who was pastor for two years. 
 
 After this there appears to have been another long vacancy, 
 ending with the short pastorate of Rev. B. F. Myers, in 1859. 
 And now, once more, the supply system was adopted, and a num- 
 ber of young men, either from the seminary, or but recently 
 graduated, filled the pulpit, among whom the names of Lyon, 
 Agnew, Graham and Kuhn are still held in remembrance. Of 
 these, Rev. Loyal Young Graham afterwards settled and con- 
 tinued to discharge the duties of the pastoral office for a period 
 of five years, commencing with 1861. Mr. Kuhn was here for 
 about one year, but was not installed. Rev. Henry Bain also 
 supplied the church for one summer. 
 
 In 1870 Rev. Wm. Edgar became Stated Supply and served 
 the church for a year and a half 
 
 After this there followed three pastorates, viz. : Rev. S. 
 S. Bergen, from 1876 to 1878; Rev. C. B. Wakefield, from 1880 
 to 1882, and Rev. C. C. B. Duncan, from September, 1882, to 
 May, 1885. Since the release of Mr. Duncan, the church has 
 been vacant, but is now earnestly seeking a pastor who shall go 
 in and out before the people. 
 
 The first church building in which the congregation was in- 
 terested was of stone, held jointly by the Reformed and Presby- 
 terians. This arrangement was not satisfactory to either congre- 
 gation and the Presbyterians sold out their interest to their neigh- 
 bor for the sum of ^8300. On the ist of April, 1856, the congre- 
 gation, through their trustees, Daniel Stahl and Andrew Stewart, 
 bought a lot on Union street of G. B. Fundenberg, M. D., at a 
 cost of $450, on which a beautiful brick church, 36x52 feet was 
 
94 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 built, at a cost of ^1,650, and dedicated, April 15th, 1857. This 
 house was burnt in a disastrous fire, which fairly swept the town, 
 on the 9th of May, 1872. Fortunately the congregation had an 
 insurance of ;^2,ooo on the old building. With this and the lib- 
 eral assistance of many friends, they began to rebuild in 1874, 
 and in the following year had the pleasure of worshiping in a 
 building which had cost them ^9,000. It is a beautiful structure, 
 a model of neatness and architectural skill, and a credit alike to 
 the congregation and town. The congregation has always been 
 small but spirited, embracing many of the very best people in 
 the community. Their Board of Elders are the following, viz.: 
 Geo. W. Benford, Wm. Stahl and Geo. H. Love. 
 
 We close this imperfect history, secured mainly from the 
 lips of an aged member of the church, whose memory has sup- 
 plied the place of the records lost in the fire, with the last statis- 
 tical report. The only explanation we make of it is, that the ad- 
 ditions in the column "on examination" were received during a 
 delightful season of grace in February, 1888. Elders, three; ad- 
 ded on examination, seven ; by certificate, two ; whole No., thirty- 
 five; adults baptized, three; Sabbath School members, sixty-five; 
 Home Missions, $^ ; Foreign Missions, ^5 ; Sabbath School work, 
 $4; Relief Fund, ;^io; Freedmen, $2; Sustentation, $2; General 
 Assembly, ^3; Congregational, ;^I27. 
 
 JENNER. 
 
 The village of Jenner is a little hamlet on the northern turn- 
 pike in Somerset county, twelve miles north of the town of Som- 
 erset. When the first Presbyterian sermon was preached here, 
 or by whom, is unknown. The records ot Redstone Presbytery 
 show that Mr. James Adams, who was licensed to preach at 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 95 
 
 Fairfield, April 20th, 1797, was appointed to preach at "Summer- 
 set" on the fourth Sabbath of June following and at Quemahon- 
 ing (afterwards called Jenner) on the fifth Sabbath. 
 
 Rev. John Ross was ordained and installed pastor of Som- 
 erset Church, December 3d, 18 17. It is claimed that the minis- 
 ters supplying Somerset also preached at Jenner. It is probable, 
 therefore, that after Mr. Adams preached, the church was still 
 dependent on supplies till the pastorate of Mr. Ross. When the 
 organization took place we cannot tell. Mr. Ross' pastorate 
 continued at Somerset, till October, 18 19. Then was there at 
 both places, doubtless, dependence on supplies for a long time. 
 A venerable member of the Somerset Church says, that about the 
 year 1827, Rev. Stephen Frontis, a Frenchman, preached for 
 twelve months. 
 
 At Saltsburg, April 2d, 1828, Rev. Samuel Swan was ap- 
 pointed to administer the communion at Jenner and Rev. John 
 H. Kirkpatrick to assist, and Rev. John H. Agnewto preach one 
 Sabbath at discretion. 
 
 June 1 5th, 1 830, Rev. S. Howell Terry was called to Somerset 
 and Jenner, each place to have one-half the time, except every 
 eighth Sabbath. Mr. Terry was ordained and installed on the 
 the 7th of July, 1830, and continued as pastor till the autumn of 
 
 1833- 
 
 In 1836, probably, Rev. Robert M. Finley became Stated 
 Supply and continued till 1840, when supplies were appointed. 
 In April, 1837, Somerset and Jenner are reported as having an 
 addition of ten on examination, a membership of 120, six adults 
 being baptized and twenty-seven infants. How many belonged 
 to each church we cannot tell. In 1838 nine were added on ex- 
 amination and one on certificate, and the membership was 127. 
 Fifteen children were baptized. 
 
 In October, 1842, the following resolution was adopted by " 
 Presbytery: "Resolved, That this Presbytery memorialize the 
 Board of Missions in reference to the declining state of Presby- 
 terianism in the churches in Somerset county and earnestly en- 
 treat said Board to locate in that county some efficient mission- 
 ary, with a competent support, in hope that the cause of truth 
 
96 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 and sound Presbyterianism may be revived and promoted." 
 What the result of the appHcation was is not shown by the min- 
 utes of Presbytery. 
 
 In 1844 the committee on Domestic Missions were instruct- 
 ed to aid Somerset and Jenner to the amount of $150, in sup- 
 porting some one whom they might obtain to serve them. Ap- 
 plication was made for aid several times. 
 
 In 1848, April, Mr. Henry Davis a licentiate of the Presby- 
 tery of Hocking, was employed as Stated Supply for one year. 
 
 He was followed by Rev. Peter Hassinger, who continued 
 two years or more. 
 
 After a long vacancy and dependence on supplies, Rev. B. F. 
 Myers, licentiate, was duly ordained and installed as pastor, June 
 23d, 1859. This pastorate was brief, ending May 9th, i860. 
 
 Messrs. Lyon, Agnew, Graham and Kuhn supplied for some 
 time. 
 
 Rev. Loyal Young Graham became pastor in 1861 and con- 
 tinued for five years. Mr. Bain supplied the church for a season. 
 
 In October, i860, Somerset and Jenner were set over to 
 Blairsville Presbytery and continued in that relation till during 
 the time when Rev. Mr. Edgar was Stated Supply, from 1870 to 
 1872. Rev. S. S. Bergen was pastor from 1876 to 1878; Rev. C. 
 B. Wakefield, from 1880 to 1882 and Rev. C. C. B. Duncan, from 
 1882 to 1885. 
 
 Since that time this feeble vine has had but little of the cul- 
 tivation so essential to its health and growth. 
 
 At one time there was a large Presbyterian community, em- 
 bracing amongst others, the Duncans, Hanlins, Rushabcrgers, 
 McMullins, Dennisons, Murphys, Howards, Landers, Coopers, 
 Boyds, Griffiths, Barclays, &c. Nearly all these are gone and only 
 a few members are left. 
 
 In the early day, a large log building stood about a mile 
 east of Jenner, near the creek, called the "Log House." This 
 was followed by a brick house in town, on the site of the present 
 building. This second house gave place to the third, also of 
 brick, erected and dedicated about 1871, and cost ;$ 1,300. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 97 
 
 Daniel Stahl, elder at Somerset, for many years attended 
 communions at Jenner. 
 
 Abram Biesecker, one of the present session, was ordained 
 in '71 or '72. Worth J. Picking and Wm. Klein were ordained 
 and installed during the pastorate of Rev. C. C. B. Duncan. 
 
 TENT. 
 
 BY REV. M. C. BAILEY, PH. D. 
 
 It is probable that the earliest Christians of this region wor- 
 shiped in a sanctuary known as Union Church. It was located 
 near the Morgantown road, on the land now possessed by Mr. 
 Samuel Robinson. The location was then known as "the Cataba 
 War Path." People came here to worship from Uniontown and 
 the surrounding" country. They were chiefly Presbyterians and 
 Baptists. Some items of this account are disputed. Whatever 
 may be the exact history, it is certain that the Presbyterian body 
 worshiped at a very early day at a place about a mile north of 
 this. They came long distances, bringing their tents with them 
 and remaining from Friday till Monday. A special tent was 
 provided for the speaker and from this the place came to be 
 known as the Tent, which name it still bears. It appears to have 
 been called also for a long time afterwards the tJnion Church, 
 probably on account of the old church, referred to above, bearing 
 that name. The services held at the Tent seem to have been 
 somewhat of the nature of the modern campmeeting. Services 
 were had continuously from Friday till Monday. It appears 
 that some of the worshipers were seized with "the falling sensa- 
 tion," as it was known in the South. 
 
98 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 In 1780 the old log church on the Cataba war path was 
 burned down and in 1791 or '92 a meeting house was erected at 
 the present site of the Tent. It was a log structure, thirty-five 
 feet square, had a gallery on three sides and a bird's nest pulpit 
 on the fourth side. 
 
 So far as can be known, this church was organized about 
 1792 or '93. Previous to this time, members of the church liv- 
 ing within the bounds of the congregation were connected with 
 the churches of George's Creek and Laurel Hill. The Union- 
 town church was not organized till thirty years later. At the 
 time of the organization the number of communicants was small. 
 Three elders were ordained, viz. : James Orr, Joseph Hadden 
 and John Bell. 
 
 In October, 1793, the church united with that of George's 
 Creek in presenting a call for the ministerial services of Mr. Da- 
 vid Smith, a licentiate of the Presbytery of Redstone and a son 
 of the Rev. Joseph Smith. In 1794 he was ordained and in- 
 stalled pastor of these churches. He continued his labors here 
 only about three years and a half, when he was compelled to re- 
 sign, through failure of pecuniary support. He was a man of 
 deep piety and respectable literary ability, and his sermons were 
 rich and instructive, but his delivery was not engaging, nor were 
 his manners prepossessing. The congregation was not greatly 
 enlarged during this short period of his labors. 
 
 During the summer of 1798 the church was visited by Mr. 
 James Adams, a licentiate of Redstone Presbytery. After a 
 short acquaintance with him, the people were so well satisfied 
 with his ministrations, that in October following, they united 
 with the churches of George's Creek and New Providence, in 
 calling him to be their pastor. After some delay, he was in Oc- 
 tober, 1799, ordained and installed pastor of these congregations. 
 He served this church till the year 18 14, when he removed to 
 Ohio. Mr. Adams was a man of piety and unassuming man- 
 ners, but his delivery was not good and he attracted few to the 
 house of God who did not love religion for its own sake. He 
 ordained Samuel Salisbury and Hugh McClelland elders and re- 
 ceived and installed Benjamin Laughead. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 99 
 
 There is now a long vacanc}-, during which time the church 
 is left in a very destitute condition. But few supplies could be 
 granted by Presbytery. 
 
 The Rev. James Dunlap, during a short residence at New 
 Geneva, preached frequently for this church. 
 
 In 1 8 19 the Rev. Wm. Wylie having accepted a call and 
 settled in Uniontown, the Tent congregation obtained one-fourth 
 of his time as a Stated Supply, which they continued to enjoy 
 till his removal in 1823. Mr. Wylic's preaching was of a very 
 popular cast and under his ministry the congregation was 
 strengthened and several accessions were made to the church. 
 But the seed sown by his instrumentality afterwards yielded 
 more abundant fruit than was visible during his ministry. Mr. 
 Wm. Nixon was ordained an elder by Mr. Wylie in 1820, 
 
 The Presbytery of Redstone received under its care, April 
 2 1st, 1 818, Mr. A. G. Fairchild, a licentiate of the Presbytery of 
 New Jersey. Previous to this he had spent some time in mis- 
 sionary work, having been licensed by his Presbytery, April, 
 1816. On the 1st of July, 1818, he was ordained as an evan- 
 gelist by Redstone Presbytery, then in session at Pittsburgh. 
 We have been informed by one who heard the first sermon he 
 preached in Fayette county, that the service was held in a pri- 
 vate house, in the place known as Haydentown. Word had been 
 sent out to come and hear the boy-preacher. He was very 
 modest and at the close of the sermon was advised by a friend to 
 take his eyes off the ceiling and look the people in the face. It 
 is believed that he was characterized by this modest peculiarity 
 all his life. April 21st, 18 19, he was stationed at George's Creek 
 and Greensboro, at a salary of $175 for the half of his time. In 
 July 2d, 1822, he accepted a call to George's Creek, Greensboro 
 and Morgantown, for five-sixths of his time. The support prom- 
 ised was $2,2i3-o3- I" October, 1823, he supplied the Tent one 
 Sabbath. In April, 1824, he was appointed Stated Supply at the 
 Tent for the one-sixth of his time. The following year one- 
 fourth of his time was taken. He says, "down to this period no 
 records had been kept of the church; it was, therefore, with 
 some difficulty that the number of the communicants was ascer- 
 
lOO PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 tained to be about fifty-two, of whom only six were free-holders." 
 Among the number thus referred to, we find the name of Jane 
 Watt, who died, October i6th, 1882, aged one hundred years, 
 lacking one month. In 1825 a delightful refreshing was experi- 
 enced, which resulted in the addition of thirty persons to the 
 church on examination. Among the number were F. Hughes 
 Oliphant and Jane C. Oliphant. 
 
 In 1826 Mr. Fairchild was installed pastor of the Tent for 
 one-half of his time. The blessed results of the revival con- 
 tinued to be felt and we find among the number of conversions to 
 the church, between the years 1827 and 1830, the names of James 
 Snyder, Mary Snyder and Alexander Deyarman. In April, 
 1827, Mr. Fairchild asked leave to resign the charge of Morgan- 
 town and Greensboro. In October the request was granted and 
 at the same meeting of Presbytery a call was accepted to labor 
 at the Tent one-half of his time, the support promised being 
 ;^200. In 1825 Mr. Fairchild ordained John Core and Abraham 
 Stewart elders; in 1830 he ordained Eliel Freeman; in 1831 re- 
 ceived John Kennedy Duncan and in 1832 ordained Alex. De- 
 yarman and Thos. Madden. Mr. Fairchild was settled over the 
 Tent congregation, November 2d, 1827, for one-half of his time, 
 by a committee consisting of Geo. Vaneman, who preached the 
 sermon, and Wm. Johnston who gave the charge. 
 
 In 1830 and '31, there was another revival, which resulted in 
 the addition of about fifty persons to the church. Still, Mr. 
 Fairchild says, "the peculiar circumstances of this church pre- 
 vent its becoming strong. In 1824, out of fifty-two members, 
 only six were free-holders, and at present, among 152 communi- 
 cants there are but ten. The greatest part of the members hav- 
 ing no permanent abode and compelled to shift their residence, 
 and thus the church loses the greater part of its increase." 
 
 Among those received by certificate in 1835, were Josiah S. 
 Vankirk and Matilda Vankirk; by examination, January, 1838, 
 Mrs. Ann Humphreys; May, i84i,Wm. Costcad; January, 1843, 
 Alfred Stewart; January, 1845, John Oliphant, Joshua V. Gibbons, 
 and Humphrey Humphries. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 10 1 
 
 The following elders were ordained or received by Mr. Fair- 
 child: Benjamin Blackford, in 1834; F. Hughes Oliphant, in 
 1838; John Richards, Josiah S. Vankirk and Thos. Towle, in 
 1843; Wm. Pastoris and John T. Smith, in 1850 and at the same 
 time, Samuel Duncan was received by certificate; Humphrey 
 Humphreys, in 1857. Mr. Samuel Robinson was installed, No- 
 vember, 1880. It is worthy of note that Dr. Fairchild's last offi- 
 cial act was that of moderating the session, August 15th, 1863, 
 for the purpose of receiving Mr. Lewis Snyder into the church. 
 
 Mr. Fairchild was not long a pastor of the Tent before he 
 began to preach at Fairchance. This he continued to do as long 
 as he lived — Fairchance being regarded as a part of the Tent 
 congregation. In 1845 ^^^^ present church building was erected 
 at Fairchance, chiefly through the liberality of Mr. F. H. Oli- 
 phant to accommodate Mr. Fairchild. In 1854, Dr. Fairchild re- 
 signed the charge of George's Creek, that he might devote the 
 whole of his time and strength to Tent and Fairchance. This he 
 continued to do till the event of his death. 
 
 The old log structure which was placed on the present site 
 of the Tent in 1791 or '92, was replaced by a brick structure in 
 1832-33, at a cost of about ;^ 1, 700. It is a sad fact, that two 
 men, viz.: Elder Thomas Madden and Henry Dimond were 
 killed in the work of removing the roof of the old log church. 
 
 Dr. Fairchild preached his last sermon in the Baptist church 
 of Smithfield, May 22d, 1864, from the text, Song of Solomon, 
 5-16: "This is my friend." While preaching this sermon he 
 was seized by his last illness, remitting fever. He died the last 
 hour of June. An old scholar standing by his bedside at this 
 time, exclaimed: "My Father, my Father, the Chariot of Israel 
 and the horsemen thereof" The Rev. H. O. Rosborough, the 
 successor of Dr. Fairchild in the pastorate of George's Creek 
 and his warm personal friend, preached the funeral sermon, from 
 Ps. 74-24: "Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel and after- 
 ward receive me to glory." The service was closed with an elo- 
 quent address by the Rev. Samuel Wilson, D. D., of Dunlap's 
 Creek, a life long friend of the deceased. After these services, 
 which were held in the Old Frame meeting house, the four el- 
 
102 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 ders of the Tent, viz.: F. H. Oliphant, Humphrey Humphreys, 
 John T. Smith and Alex. Deyarman, bore the precious dust of 
 this great man to their final resting place. 
 
 Singular injustice has been done to the memory of Dr. Fair- 
 child by the historians of Fayette county and of Redstone Pres- 
 bytery. His worth as a man — his greatness as an author — his 
 phenomenal work in the history of the church in this region, 
 have all been overlooked, not to say slighted. In the Providence 
 of God, Dr. Fairchild was raised up to beat back the tide of 
 fanaticism and false doctrines, and well did he do his work. He 
 was naturally modest and retiring and was almost forced into 
 this position by his brethren. His works have an almost world- 
 wide circulation and are of standard value. Dr. Fairchild, though 
 slighted by history, is sustained in the hearts of his people and 
 his friends. A professor of the Western Theological Seminary 
 missing Dr. Fairchild from Synod that year and learning the 
 cause, remarked : "The archer has been looking over the mem- 
 bership of this Synod and has selected the most shining mark 
 for his arrow." 
 
 For a number of years the church was served by supplies 
 and pastors who remained a short time. Among these were 
 Rev. Messrs. Wycoff, Hench, Perkins, Dickey, Martin and 
 Rogers. 
 
 On the morning of April i4th, 1878, the church was burned 
 down, having taken fire from a defective flue. Every member of 
 the congregation who came to church that morning was sadden- 
 ed in heart by the sight of the heap of ruins. This was a heavy 
 blow to the church, which was weak already from deaths and re- 
 movals of its members. Some predicted that the church would 
 not survive this loss, but they did not know the spirit of the men 
 to whose hearts the Tent was a sacred place. With characteris- 
 tic promptness and energy they went to work to repair the loss. 
 ;^ 1, 500 was raised for this work and we have as the result, the 
 present neat and comfortable structure. 
 
 The building was rededicated on August 4th, '78, and the 
 Rev. S. S. Bergen was installed pastor of the congregation at the 
 same time. He continued to serve the congregation in this ca- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE, IO3 
 
 pacity nntil March, 1882, when the pastoral relation was dis- 
 solved. 
 
 In May, 1882, the Rev. M. C. Bailey, a member of the Pres- 
 bytery of Carlisle, supplied the pulpit and received a call to serve 
 this church, in connection with the churches of Fairchance and 
 McClellandtown, giving the church the morning service of every 
 alternate Sabbath, the remuneration for these services being 
 ;^300. Mr. Bailey accepted the call and assumed the work, June 
 22d, and in October 30th, of the same year, was installed by a 
 committee, consisting of the Revs. H. O. Rosborough and A. S. 
 Milholland. The winter following this installation the church 
 experienced a delightful work of grace. December 2d, 1883, the 
 following elders were ordained, viz. : Joseph Thomas, Chas. L. 
 Smith and Sam'l P. Custead, and Jared Burchinal was installed 
 at the same time with them. 
 
 McKEESPORT. 
 
 BY REV. J. J. M CARRELL. 
 
 The town of McKeesport was laid out in 1795. The earliest 
 record of Presbyterian services therein bears date of 180 1. At 
 this time commissioners from "McKeesport and vicinity," ap- 
 peared before the Presbytery of Redstone and made application 
 for the services of Rev. Boyd Mercer one half of his time. The 
 Presbyterians of McKeesport united with people of like faith, in 
 Pitt township (since Beulah Church), in supporting the Gospel. 
 Mr. Mercer continued his ministrations as "Supply," at intervals, 
 until 1822. To him belongs the honor of laying the founda- 
 
I04 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 tions of organized Presbyterianism in this vicinity. The first 
 formal organization at this place, by the election of elders, was in 
 1 8 19. The first house of worship was erected the same year. 
 Until this time the congregation worshiped in different buildings, 
 in the houses and on the "grounds" of the members. 
 
 After the close of Mr. Mercer's labors, the church enjoyed 
 only occasional supplies for about two years. A call was then 
 extended to Mr. Alexander McCandless, a licentiate of the Pres- 
 bytery of Ohio, for his pastoral services for one-third of the 
 time, the church of Long Run calling him for the remaining 
 part. This call was accepted. Mr. McCandless began his labors 
 in the "Fall" of 1824, and was ordained and installed over the 
 united charge, April 20th, 1825. The membership of the Mc- 
 Keesport branch of his charge, at this time, seems to have been 
 about thirty. During the pastorate of Mr. McCandless the 
 church seems to have been materially strengthened, although 
 the growth in the membership of this part of his charge did not 
 keep pace with Long Run. At the close of this pastorate, in 
 1837, the roll of communicants numbered only fifty-two. Mr. 
 McCandless was a man of marked ability, fine scholarship, strong 
 convictions and builded v/ell. He organized the Sabbath School 
 work in the church. He may be said to have been the pioneer 
 of the temperance movement in this community. He severely 
 attacked the prevalent drinking customs and the destruction of 
 grain in the still. The first organized temperance society in the 
 community originated in the Presbyterian church during his pas- 
 torate in 1829. 
 
 The vacancy following Mr. McCandless' resignation contin- 
 ued about three years and a half, during which time the church 
 was ministered to by Presbyterial and other supplies. 
 
 Rev. Mr. Buston, of the Presbytery of Ohio, served as snp- 
 ply during the winter of 1839 and 1840. 
 
 In April, 1 841, the congregation called Mr. Wm. Eaton, a 
 licentiate of this Presbytery for one-third of his time, the re- 
 maining part given to Round Hill. Soon afterward the pastoral 
 relation was consummated and continued three years, termina- 
 ting, April, 1844. During this pastorate the first church build- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 05 
 
 ing was removed and the second, larger and more pretentious, 
 was erected. 
 
 The vacancy created by Mr. Eaton's resignation continued 
 one year. In September of this year (1844) Presbytery held its 
 first stated meeting in this church. 
 
 In April, 1845, the church secured the services of Rev, 
 Samuel Hill, of the Presbytery of Huntingdon, as Stated Supply 
 for six months. At the end of that time a majority of the con- 
 gregation desired his continuance. A respectable minority dis- 
 senting. Presbytery refused permission to employ him. 
 
 Through all these experiences the church enjoyed a measure 
 of growth and prosperity. In 1846 the membership had increas- 
 ed to 105. 
 
 In October, 1846, Mr. Prosper H. Jacob, a licentiate of the 
 Presbytery of Beaver, was employed as Stated Supply for six 
 months. At the close of this engagement, he was called to the 
 pastorate and ordained and installed, June 2d, 1847. For the 
 first time the congregation enjoyed the whole of a pastor's ser- 
 vices. This pastorate was fruitful in good works and substantial 
 growth. The weekly prayer meeting was organized. The benefi- 
 cence of the congregation was stimulated and developed. Dur- 
 ing the four years of this ministry the membership grew from 
 127 to 281. Discipline seems to have been faithfully adminis- 
 tered and the truth ably defended against open assailants. This 
 relation was dissolved, October 3d, 185 1. 
 
 During the winter of 185 1 and 1852 the church was served 
 by Revs. Nathaniel West, Sr. and Jr. The former was called to 
 the pastorate the following April. He entered immediately upon 
 his work, but was not formally installed until May 2d, 1854. Dr. 
 West, a veritable "Son of Thunder," came to the work well 
 equipped in body and mind. A man of strong convictions and 
 imperious will, he was often "a man of war." He would toler- 
 ate none who walked disorderly. His ministry was marked by 
 the discipline of many offenders, often indicating zeal untempered 
 by prudence and love. These frequent disturbances seem to 
 have seriously affected the growth and spirituality of the church. 
 Notwithstanding numerous accessions, the membership at the 
 
I06 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 close was less than at the beginning of his ministry. Yet he 
 was instrumental in doing most valuable service. During his 
 incumbency the third and present (1887) house of worship was 
 erected. The people were soundly indoctrinated in the faith of 
 the Fathers. The Sabbath School was reorganized and placed 
 upon a more substantial basis. One sermon was substituted for 
 the primitive double service on the Sabbath and other salutary 
 changes were introduced. The fruitage of this strong but strange 
 ministry will not be known till the "great day of final account." 
 Dr, West's pastoral relation was dissolved, July, 1856, 
 
 The vacancy following the above dissolution was of short 
 duration. Robert F. Wilson, a licentiate of the Presbytery of 
 Huntingdon, was called to the pastorate, September ist, 1856. 
 Mr, Wilson was ordained and installed, November 20th, of the 
 same year. The church, at this time, with a membership of 194, 
 a commodious and substantial house of worship in the midst of 
 a prosperous and growing community, was in a condition for do- 
 ing great good, Mr, Wilson entered upon his ministry under 
 favorable circumstances. His pastorate of nearly eleven years 
 was marked by spiritual power and steady growth in every de- 
 partment of the church work. Three revivals occurred during 
 his ministry. Besides these revival times, there were constant 
 accessions as the months went by, making an average of about 
 eighteen on profession of faith each year of his ministry, besides 
 considerable accessions from other churches. At the close of 
 this pastorate the membership was reported at two hundred and 
 seventy. During these years, the benevolent enterprises of 
 the church at home and abroad were systematically cared for. 
 The records of this pastorate indicate a laborer conscientious and 
 faithful, needing not to be ashamed, and through the divine bles- 
 sing, a corresponding prosperity in the church. Those "troub- 
 lous times" of the civil war were assigned to this incumbency. 
 Some seventy-five of the sons of the church were in the army 
 and navy of the Union. The clouds which hung oftentimes so 
 heavy over the country at large, also gathered about this congre- 
 gation of God's people. Under these clouds the sun of this 
 successful ministry "went to his setting." Against the earnest 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. IO7 
 
 protest of friends, Mr. Wilson placed his resignation in the hands 
 of Presbytery, April, 1867, and was released. May 14th of the 
 same year. 
 
 The vacancy following the above resignation continued more 
 than two years. During these years supplies were regularly ob- 
 tained and repeated efforts made to secure a pastor. 
 
 In March, 1868, a call was extended to Rev. S. C. Logan, 
 then Secretary of Committee of Missions for Freedmen. The 
 call was declined, but Mr. Logan for a time served as regular 
 supply. 
 
 In July, 1868, a call was made for the services of Rev. W. S. 
 Wright, but declined. 
 
 In October, of the same year, a call was issued to Rev. W, 
 H. Gill, with like results. 
 
 Finally, in April, 1869, a call was made for the services of 
 Rev. G. M. Hair, of Baltimore. This call was accepted and the 
 installation took place, November 9th, following. Prosperity 
 seemed to visit the church once more. A Domestic Missionary 
 Society had been formed among the ladies during the preceding 
 vacancy. A Dorcas Society in the Sabbath School for clothing 
 children in need of such aid was added. The church was, at an 
 early day, free from debt. The church building was lighted 
 with gas. During the first year of this ministry the member- 
 ship increased 242 to 288. The benevolent causes of the church 
 were systematically aided. The congregation acquired fixed 
 habits of worship. The Sabbath School was more prosperous 
 than ever. The outlook seemed bright, indeed. Financial diffi- 
 culties, however, began to appear in deficiencies in the current 
 expense funds. In the spring of 1871 the congregation resolved 
 to build a parsonage and finished it with an almost crushing debt 
 upon them. The people became so disheartened that the pastor 
 felt constrained to offer his resignation. The relation was dis- 
 solved, August 20th. 1872, after a ministry of less than three 
 years. 
 
 Rev. J. W. Wightman was called to the pastorate, October 
 I ith, 1872, after a vacancy in the church of less than two months. 
 He accepted and was installed, December 31st, of the same year. 
 
I08 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 Mr. Wightman found the congregation burdened with a debt of 
 $8,000 and the church property sadly in need of repairs. 
 Through "great tribulation" this heavy burden of debt was lifted 
 and the church once more enjoyed increasing prosperity. Large 
 ingatherings annually proved the presence of the Spirit in the 
 ministrations of the pastor and the hearts of the people. Not- 
 withstanding the great financial depression, not a blank appears 
 in any of the benevolent schemes of the church at large during 
 this pastorate. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was 
 organized and the whole work systematically pressed forward. 
 At the close of this pastorate, August 25th, 1877, the church 
 was on a firm financial basis. The membership had increased to 
 three hundred and twenty-seven, the Sabbath School to three 
 hundred and fifty. 
 
 After a vacancy of less than a month Rev. Samuel McBride 
 was called to the pastorate. He was installed, November 13th, 
 1877. This incumbency, of just two years, was an epoch in the 
 history of the church. A man of popular address, Mr. Mc- 
 Bride drew large congregations to hear him preach. In less than 
 two years more than one hundred were admitted to membership 
 on confession of faith, besides a number on certificate. In the 
 spring of 1879 the number of communicants was reported at 
 412. Difficulties, however, arose in the congregation. The well 
 established members became dissatisfied with new methods intro- 
 duced, and entertained grave suspicions as to the character of 
 doctrine preached. Want of confidence increased. The case 
 reached Presbytery. As a compromise, the pastoral relation was 
 dissolved, November 13th, 1879, Mr. McBride agreeing to leave 
 the bounds of the Presbytery. As a consequence of the whole 
 trouble, a large number of the communicants withdrew from the 
 church. Out of a membership of 412 reported to the General 
 Assembly in 1879, o^'x -04 were reported to Assembly of 1880. 
 Thus weakened, discouraged, almost paralyzed, the congregation 
 was left to begin again. During the winter of '79 and '80 the 
 church had supplies. 
 
 April 5th, 1880, a call was extended to Rev. J. K. McKallip 
 and was declined. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. IO9 
 
 Rev. Geo. N. Johnston was called to the pastorate, June 21st, 
 1880. The call was accepted and the installation took place, De- 
 cember 2 1st of the same year. This pastorate was largely one 
 of "strengthening the things that remained," gathering up the 
 fragments and combining the broken elements of the congrega- 
 tion. There was a considerable ingathering, and notwithstand- 
 ing many losses, at the close of this ministry, April 20th, 1884, 
 the membership had increased to 240, the church was united, 
 hopeful and in good condition for future usefulness. 
 
 May 19th, 1884, Rev. J. J. McCarrell, the present incum- 
 bent, was called to the pastorate. He accepted, took charge, Oc- 
 tober 1st, and was installed, December 5th of the same year. 
 This relationship has been blessed of God. The membership 
 has increased to 420, the Sabbath School membership to 470. 
 The women, children and young people are well organized for 
 Christian work "at home and abroad." The gifts to benevolence 
 have largely increased, as well as the support of the Gospel at 
 home, beyond any former period in the history of the church. 
 The church property has been improved at an expense of more 
 than $8,000, including a pipe organ. The congregation is free 
 from debt. The outlook is hopeful and promising. Thus God 
 has led this people into a "large place." 
 
 The following is the roll of the eldership from the beginning 
 of the organization: Wm. Penney, ordained 1820; died, Febru- 
 ary 5, 185 1. Wm. Sill, ordained 1820; died, February 28, 1841. 
 James Evans, ordained 1820. Hamilton Stewart, ordained 1838; 
 died, April 3, 1879. Fauntley Muse, ordained 1838; dismissed 
 1850. John Gray, ordained 1840; dismissed 185 1. H. D. Gam- 
 ble, ordained, September 19, 1847; died 1851. Wm. Lawhead, 
 ordained, September 19, 1847; dismissed 185 i. John A. Miller, 
 installed, March 6, 1848 ; dismissed 1865. John McHenry, or- 
 dained 1852 ; dismissed 1856. Andrew Christy, installed, June 
 26, 1853; died. May 6, 1880. John Gardner, ordained, June 26, 
 1853; dismissed 1865. John Mcintosh, ordained, June 26, 1853; 
 ceased to act, January 29, 1854. John Lynch, installed, October 
 5, 1853; dismissed, April, 1856. Hugh Rowland, ordained, Au- 
 gust 28, 1859; died, April 28, 1866. Wm. Douglass, ordained, 
 
no PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 August 28, 1859; dismissed, December, 1866. Thos. Plummer, 
 installed, February ii, 1866; dismissed 1875. Wm. J. Millar, 
 ordained, February 11, 1866; dismissed 1867. Jacob P. Learn, 
 ordained, February 11, 1866. Jas. H. Gamble, ordained, Febru- 
 ary II, 1866; dismissed . Philip Hodil, ordained, Febru- 
 ary 16, 1886; dismissed, December 3, 1866. Alex. Millar, or- 
 dained, August 31, 1873; died, July 18, 1878. Henry Stewart, 
 ordained, August 31, 1873. Dickson Bailie, ordained, August 
 31, 1873; dismissed, May, i, 1880. Walter Foster, ordained, 
 January 25, 1880. Jas. H. Williamson, ordained, January 25, 
 1880. Jas. S. Kuhn, ordained, January 25, 1880. 
 
 GREENSBORO. 
 
 BY ELDER A. V. BOUGHNER. 
 
 The church of Greensboro is situated in the village of that 
 name, Greene county. Pa. Little is known of its origin and pro- 
 gress, as there are no records from which to make a full and 
 satisfactory history. Prior to 1822, James Vance, who had been 
 an elder and had emigrated from Morristown, New Jersey, in 
 God's Providence was thrown in this community, where he was 
 enabled to be one of a few in sowing seed. 
 
 In 1 8 19 the united congregations of George's Creek and 
 Greensboro promised to A. G. Fairchild ;^I75 for one-half of his 
 time for the term of one year. In 1822, the united congrega- 
 tions of Morgantown, George's Creek and Greensboro, called 
 Rev. A. G. Fairchild, at a salary of ;?333.33 ; Morgantown to 
 have one-third of his time and to pay ^133.33, George's Creek 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. I I I 
 
 another third of his time and to pay $135, and Greensboro one- 
 sixth of his time and to pay $65, making a total of ;^333.33. 
 
 It was in this year (1822) a lot was bought and a church 
 commenced. Several of the German families connected with, or 
 engaged in the manufacture of glass, who had removed from the 
 Fayette county side of the river to this in 1804 to 1806, and who 
 had been brought up in the Lutheran church, became Presby- 
 terians. In the erection of the church building at that day, the 
 cost was not so great as in after years. James. W. Nicholson, 
 the Oliphants and Albert Gallatin, some of whom were interest- 
 ed in the manufacture of glass, assisted and, through the efforts 
 of Dr. Fairchild, succeeded in getting the building up. It would 
 seem strange now, yet the bottle of whiskey was kept where the 
 workmen could get their dram while the wall was going up and 
 no harm thought of it. The German families spoken of had 
 been engaged in the manufacture of glass, at what was known as 
 the "Old Glass Works," on George's Creek, Fayette county. 
 Gallatin was a partner. 
 
 On the occasion of the installation of Dr. Fairchild, Rev. 
 Wm. Wiley preached the sermon and Rev. Robert Johnson pre- 
 sided and delivered the charges to pastor and congregations. 
 This arrangement lasted till 1827. From this date the church of 
 Greensboro was without the regular stated ministrations of the 
 Gospel for a considerable period of time. This little, weak 
 church, like many others, has gone through some sad and varied 
 experiences. In the spring of 1836 the building was destroyed 
 by fire. This Providence was a serious drawback on a congre- 
 gation so feeble in numbers and strength. At length, however, 
 through the untiring, persevering efforts of Daniel Boughner and 
 a few others, the work of rebuilding was undertaken, and in 
 1840, had so far progressed, that the house was in a condition to 
 be occupied. The congregations of Connellsville, Uniontown, 
 George's Creek and New Providence, all gave as they felt able. 
 
 I have often heard father (Daniel Boughner) say he should 
 ever remember the kind offices of the elder Judge Ewing (Na- 
 thaniel), in introducing him to his friends, as well as for his per- 
 sonal aid in this trying time in the history of our little church. 
 
112 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 In November, 1840, Rev. John McClintock, pastor of New 
 Providence and Jefferson congregations, began to minister at 
 Greensboro once a month, in the evening. 
 
 This arrangement lasted till 1845, when Rev. J. B. McKee 
 became Stated Supply at Greensboro, spending two Sabbaths 
 each month. The labors of Mr. McKee embraced a period of 
 about one year. I think the good old man died at West New- 
 ton. As there were no ruling elders connected with the Greens- 
 boro church, the membership was enrolled with George's Creek. 
 By order of Presbytery, they were dismissed from George's 
 Creek in 1853 and connected with New Providence. 
 
 On the retirement of Mr. McKee, Rev. John McClintock 
 again devoted a portion of his time to Greensboro, ministering to 
 the people on alternate Sabbaths, mainly in the evening, at an 
 annual salary of $s^ to $y^. 
 
 In May, 1866, by an agreement with New Providence, Mr. 
 McClintock gave up his charge at Jefferson and devoted that 
 proportion of time to Greensboro, believing he could accomplish 
 more good for Christ's Kingdom. Thus we were every fourth 
 Sabbath supplied with a morning service. For this additional 
 service we were to pay ^100. In the winter of 1866, quite a re- 
 ligious interest was manifested, and as a result, thirteen persons 
 were added to the church on examination, two of whom subse- 
 quently became ruling elders. 
 
 On the 15th of June, 1867, by order of Presbytery, the 
 church of Greensboro was reorganized by Rev. Joel Stoneroad 
 and Rev. John McClintock. The membership of Greensboro 
 Church in 1840, when Mr. McClintock began as supply, number- 
 ed seventeen. From 1840 up to 1867, the date of reorganiza- 
 tion, forty-five were received on examination. In the above- 
 named time, eleven died. In 1879, repairs to the church building 
 were completed, v/hich had been continued through several years, 
 at a total cost of over ^2,100. 
 
 On the 15th of June, 1867, the church was organized and 
 Alexander Vance Boughner and John Minor Crawford were 
 chosen elders. They were ordained by Revs. Messrs. McClin- 
 tock, Stoneroad and Rosborough. Mr. McClintock continued 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. I 1 3 
 
 to serve our church till March, 1873, when, on account of age 
 and growing infirmity, he regarded it a duty, as well as a matter 
 of necessity, to relieve himself of the Greensboro charge and de- 
 vote his whole time to New Providence. Although all our mem- 
 bers seemed to realize that Mr. McClintock was perfectly justifia- 
 ble, yer it was a sad parting, indeed. At the close of the sermon, 
 he made the farewell announcement in a very feeling manner. 
 He spoke of many endearing associations he had formed and of 
 the necessity of the separation. The congregation, on hearing 
 the sad announcement, seemed to be entirely overcome and could 
 only express their love by weeping, some of them aloud. 
 Aged members went forward, embraced and kissed him, whilst 
 others gave their hand and a God bless you ! It was a scene that 
 will not be forgotten by those present while life lasts. We can- 
 not drop that good man's name in our little history. He organ- 
 ized our Sabbath School in July, 1855, and it has been kept up 
 to this time. Yes, it is hard to part with a friend, but it is more 
 trying to be separated from a godly man, under whose religious 
 teaching and influence many of us had grown up from infancy. 
 He cared for us "as a father careth for his children," and made 
 sacrifices no other man would make for our spiritual good. The 
 wreath is woven, the crown prepared for such a friend of Jesus. 
 
 From 1873 to 1874, we depended on supplies. 
 
 In 1874 we made a call for Rev. D. B. Rogers. On account 
 of the Sustentation Board not paying the amount expected, Mr. 
 Rogers resigned the charge before the close of the year. We 
 then drifted along till 1876. 
 
 In the spring of 1876, we called Rev. H. O. Rosborough for 
 one-fourth his time, at an annual salary of $200. This arrangement 
 lasted till the spring, 1887. During Mr. Rosborough's labors 
 with us, the membership increased from thirty-nine to eighty- 
 four. There are now about sixty-eight communicants. Mr. Ros- 
 borough's eleven years' service with us has been successful. He 
 resigned on account of bodily affliction. He has been a faithful 
 servant of Christ. At this date we are without a shepherd, with 
 no certain hopes of getting one. (This congregation now has a 
 pastor in connection with Jefferson, Rev. C. J. Forsythe.) 
 
114 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 UNIONTOWN. 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 This history is taken mainly from a history carefully pre- 
 pared by Rev. S. S. Gilson and published by the church in 1876, 
 and brought down to the present time, April, 1888, by Hon. 
 John K. Ewing, a member of session. A few foot notes are ad- 
 ded by the pastor, A. S. Milholland. 
 
 THE PREACHERS. 
 
 There was Presbyterian preaching here before there was a 
 church building or organization. 
 
 It is quite certain that Uniontown was occupied by Presby- 
 terian ministers as a place for preaching more than a century ago. 
 There were Presbyterian churches in this county with the minis- 
 try of the word in 1774. This place was embraced in the bounds 
 of Dunlap's Creek Church as early as 1776 and when ministers 
 were so near they would not neglect this point. The earliest 
 record is found in the minutes of Redstone Presbytery, as follows : 
 
 At a meeting of the Presbytery, at George's Creek, October 
 15th, 1799, application for supplies was made by the vacant con- 
 gregation of Uniontown. Rev. James Power was appointed for 
 one Sabbath and Rev. Samuel Porter for another. During the 
 following twelve years application was made at irregular intervals 
 for supplies which were appointed. No record can be found of 
 the date of the organization of the church. 
 
 About 181 2, Rev. James Dunlap, a man of considerable 
 ability, an ex-President of Jefferson College, came and remained 
 about two years. He was Principal also of an Academy, which 
 occupied the Madison College building. He preached occasion- 
 ally in the old Court House. In 18 16 he went to reside with his 
 son, Rev. Wm. Dunlap, in Abingdon, near Philadelphia, where 
 he remained till his death, November 22d, 1818, in the seventy- 
 fifth year of his age. 
 
 Up till 1 8 17 the preaching was very irregular. 
 
 Rev. William T. Wylie, a native of Washington county, 
 came in 1817, on the invitation of John Lyon, an eminent law- 
 
Hun. Nathaniel Ewing. 
 
 See Appendix also. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. I 1 5 
 
 yer, John Kennedy, afterward Judge, and John Miller, a citizen 
 of influence. His preaching gave great satisfaction, and after 
 two years of labor as Stated Supply he was called as pastor. 
 
 At a meeting of Redstone Presbytery held at Long Run, 
 April 2 1st, 1 8 19, a call was presented from this church and ac- 
 cepted, and arrangements were made for his installation on the 
 first Thursday of May, 1819. Rev. Messrs. Francis Herron, 
 Robert Johnson, James Guthrie and William Johnson, were ap- 
 pointed to install him as pastor. 
 
 The salary offered was unusually large — 5 1,000 annually, in 
 regular quarterly payments. It is believed to have been one of 
 the largest paid to a minister of the Gospel anywhere in the 
 United States at that time. Report was made to Presbytery at 
 Mt. Pleasant that Mr. VVylie was duly installed. Reverses came 
 on the congregation, and at Long Run, in 1822, "Mr. Wylie 
 presented a request from the trustees of the congregation, stating 
 that in consequence of the embarrassment of the times, and the 
 removal and the contemplated removal of some of their most effi- 
 cient subscribers, the congregation were unable to engage to Mr. 
 Wylie more than S300 a year for one-half of his ministerial ser- 
 vices, and that they were reluctantly constrained to desire the 
 Presbytery to release them from their former engagements to Mr. 
 Wylie, and Mr. Wylie agreeing to the request it was granted." 
 From this time Mr. Wylie preached occasionally at Wheeling. 
 He resigned his charge in October, 1823, and was dismissed to 
 the Presbytery of Washington. 
 
 Mr. Wylic's labors here were very successful. The growth 
 of the church was steady till near the close of his pastorate. 
 His physical appearance was imposing. He was tall, slender 
 and over six feet high. He was pleasant in conversation. He 
 entered the pulpit with great solemnity and was regarded as a 
 very popular and powerful preacher. He was searching and 
 faithful in his style, bold and pointed in his denunciation of sin 
 and spoke without notes. He preached in the old Court House. 
 He was again called as pastor in 1827, but declined the call. 
 
 From Uniontown, Mr. Wylie went to Wheeling, thence in 
 1832, to Newark, O., and in 185410 Port Gibson, Miss., where he 
 
Il6 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTOXE. 
 
 married his second wife. He returned to Wheeling in 1855, and 
 died there, May 9th, 1858, nearly eighty-two years of age. His 
 first wife v/as a daughter of Rev. David Smith, who preceded 
 him at Rehoboth and Round Hill, where he labored before com- 
 ing to Uniontown. She was a sister of Rev. Joseph Smith, D. 
 D., auther of "Old Redstone," and was the child born as related 
 on page fifty-seven of that book. She was a good woman and 
 deserves to be remembered as the mother of the Sabbath School 
 of this church. 
 
 For five years the church was supplied by Presbytery, 
 During this interval Rev. Dr. Fairchild preached very frequently. 
 
 In December, 1827, Mr. John Holmes Agnew, a licentiate 
 from the Presbytery of Carlisle, was received under the care of 
 Presbytery and accepted a call to Uniontown. January 26th, 
 1828, the Presbytery met here and ordained and installed him as 
 pastor. His salary was ;$400 per annum. He was the son of a 
 prominent physician of Harrisburg and a graduate of Dickinson 
 College. He was small and had a weak voice, but was a fine 
 scholar and writer and read his discourses. He was a good pas- 
 tor. Tovv'ard the close of his labors here he hardly came up to 
 the standard of orthodoxy, especially as he was thought to make 
 salvation depend too largel}^ on the human will. In the disrup- 
 tion of 1838 he went with the New School branch. Mr. Ag- 
 new resigned in 1831, chiefly on account of ill health and at once 
 accepted the Chair of Languages in Washington College and 
 was dismissed to Washington Presbytery. Afterward he was a 
 Professor for a short time in Michigan University; conducted a 
 Ladies' Seminary at Pittsfield, Mass.; became editor of the Eclec- 
 tic Magazine in New York; also taught in a Female Seminary 
 near Cincinnati, and died several years since at his home on the 
 Hudson river. While in Uniontown he married Miss Taylor, of 
 Brooklyn. She was an estimable lady, earnestly desiring to aid 
 her husband in his work. 
 
 Mr. Joel Stoneroad preached the next Sabbath after Mr. 
 Agnew left and was ordained and installed as pastor, December 
 14th, 1 83 1, on a salary of ^500. As a fuller notice of Mr. S. 
 will appear elsewhere, it is only necessary to say that this pastor- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE, I I / 
 
 ate continued for ten years and a half, the longest in this history. 
 It was signally blessed, the average admissions on examinations 
 being twelve persons each year. Mr. Stoneroad resigned, April 
 1 2th, 1842, and went to the Cross Roads Church, Presbytery of 
 Washington. 
 
 Rev. Andrew Ferrier, D. D., a minister of the United Seces- 
 sion Church, Scotland, a member of the Presbytery of Glasgow, 
 and Decommended by the Presbytery of New York, was sent as a 
 supply. On the 29th of November, 1842, he was installed as 
 pastor, on a salary of $500. He was a man of decided ability 
 and preached fine old orthodox sermons. But his Scotch brogue 
 made him hard to understand. He resigned his charge, August 
 6th, 1844, and went to the Scotch Church in Canada, and of his 
 subsequent history nothing is known. 
 
 Next came Rev. Griffith Owen, who was installed here on a 
 salar}' of $500, June 26th, 1845. ^^ ^^'^s a zealous, whole soul- 
 ed, off-hand Welshman ; a good pastor and a very good preacher, 
 whenever he applied himself He was noted for his itinerancy, 
 both in preaching and visiting from house to house. He re- 
 signed, November nth, 1847, being called to the Third Pres- 
 byterian Church of Baltimore. (He was also pastor of the 
 South P.resbyterian Church, Philadelphia, and General Agent of 
 the American Sabbath School Union in the State of Mar^'land. 
 He died in Baltimore, Md., January 14th, 1870). 
 
 Rev. Moses Allen Williams was installed pastor, November 
 20th, 1849. ^^s salary was $500. He had labored as Stated 
 Supply from February till this date. Mr. Williams resigned this 
 charge in 1852. He was the son of a ruling elder, Benjamin 
 Williams, in Mingo congregation, and was born, September 20th, 
 1 84 1, and graduated at Jefferson College in 1839. Mr. W. was 
 a godly man and an excellent pastor and a fair preacher. He 
 wrote his sermons in full and read closely. After leaving this 
 he labored in Valparaiso, Chili, S. A., till 1856, when he came back 
 to the Pacific coast, which he has thoroughly explored, enduring 
 great hardships in doing it. He organized a church in Napa 
 City and one in Jacksonville. "In 1858, in the fall," he writes, 
 "I returned to Roger's River Valley, where I have been laboring 
 
Il8 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 ever since. I scarcely ever see the face of a Presbyterian minister. 
 This valley is surrounded with high, grand mountains and pos- 
 sesses the finest climate in the world. I am sixty-five years of 
 age and can ride all day almost as well as ever. Uniontown was 
 technically my first and last pastoral charge." 
 
 Rev. James H. Callen came next in the pastorate and was 
 installed, April 27th, 1853, on a salary of ;$500. He was an 
 Irishman, with very pleasant manner. His sermons were brief, 
 finished in bright style and well read. As a pastor he was ordi- 
 nary. He was of medium height, with good appearance in the 
 pulpit. He resigned, April loth, 1855, to accept a call to a 
 church in the east. When this history was prepared he was an 
 evangelist in Brooklyn and had received the title of D. D. (His 
 name is not now, 1888, on the roll and he is probably dead.) 
 
 Rev. Wm. F. Hamilton was called, April, 1856, having 
 preached from October previous, and installed as pastor, May 
 13th, 1856. His is the second longest pastorate of this history. 
 Mr. Hamilton was born in Monongahela City, Pa., March 24th, 
 1824; graduated at Washington College, 1844, at the age of 
 twenty; the Western Theological Seminary, 1849; licensed by 
 the Presbytery of Ohio (now Pittsburgh) in '49, and ordained and 
 installed by the same Presbytery as pastor of Center Church, 
 near Canonsburg, Pa., in 1850. 
 
 Mr. Plamilton is a man of far more than average talent and 
 ability. He is a fine writer, with a keen, pointed and discrim- 
 inating style. He resigned his charge here, May 31st, 1866, af- 
 ter a pastorate of ten years. In 1868, September 7th, he took 
 charge of the churches of Salem and Livermore, in Blairsville 
 Presbytery, where he labored with great acceptance for seven 
 years. After resigning this charge he removed to Blairsville, 
 where he lived a short time and then went to Washington, Pa., 
 where he still resides and is Stated Supply of Mt. Pleasant 
 Church. He was Professor for a time of Intellectual Philosophy 
 and Ethics in Washington and Jefferson College. This College 
 bestowed upon him the title of D. D. Dr. Hamilton's salary 
 was ;^6oo at first and was after raised to ^800. (He was com- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 19 
 
 pelled on account of ill health to give up preaching a year ago. 
 He is a Trustee of Washington and Jefferson College.) 
 
 Rev. Walter W. Ralston was installed pastor of this church, 
 April 28th, 1867, on a salary of $1,200 and a house rent free. 
 He is a native of Ohio, a graduate of Jefferson College and 
 Princeton Theological Seminary. He is a good preacher, with 
 an excellent voice. He usually read his discourses. He was a 
 fair pastor. October ist, 1873, he resigned this charge to accept 
 a call to Xenia, Ohio. In 1875 he resigned his charge in Xenia 
 and labored for a time as agent for Washington and Jefferson 
 College and then settled in Bridgewater, Pa., in 1876, where he 
 now labors. (Afterward Dr. Ralston was pastor at Dennison, 
 Ohio, and is now pastor of Beulah Church, Presbytery of Blairs- 
 ville.) 
 
 This closes the succession to the present pastorate. There 
 have been ten ministers. Five were here less than three years, 
 and the average length of their pastorate was about six years. 
 
 The present pastor, Rev. Samuel S. Gilson, was born in 
 Westmoreland county, October 28th, 1843, graduated at Wash- 
 ington and Jefferson College in 1866, at the Western Theologi- 
 cal Seminary in 1869 and took a fourth year at Union Theological 
 Seminary, New York. He preached two summers at Garrison's, 
 on the Hudson. He was called to Bowling Green, Ky., April 
 1st, 1871 ; in just three years he was called to Uniontown, and 
 was installed pastor. May ist, 1874. Rev. J. P. Fulton presided 
 and preached the sermon, Rev. John M. Barnett gave the charge 
 to the pastor and Rev. George Hill, D. D., to the people. 
 
 (Mr. Gilson resigned in 1879 and labored from '80 to '83 in 
 Dennison, O., when he was called to a place on the editorial 
 staff of the "Herald and Presbyter," Cincinnati, Ohio, where he 
 still continues. 
 
 THE ELDERS. 
 
 (Want of space compels the omission of much of the ex- 
 cellent history of the members of Session and its acts, prepared 
 by Mr. Gilson.) 
 
 In the old Session Book of this Church, the first record 
 made in 1825, is signed by Joseph Kibler, Thomas Lewis and S. 
 
I20 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 Y. Campbell. These were the first elders of this church. Be- 
 fore this, at communion seasons, assistance was rendered by el- 
 ders from neighboring" churches. 
 
 Joseph Kibler is spoken of as a godly and active man, faith- 
 ful and punctual in all his duties as a man and an officer. He 
 moved, October 8th, 1832, to Hillsboro, Ohio, where he was a 
 Ruling Elder till his death. 
 
 Thomas Lewis was faithful in all the duties of a Christian 
 and officer and was clerk of Session from the beginning of the 
 records till March 27th, 1832. His membership was transferred 
 to the Tent Church in 1841, within the bounds of which he died, 
 December 21st, 1849, aged sixty-one years. 
 
 S. Y. Campbell appears to have acted as elder about two 
 years ; until 1827. 
 
 In 1829, September 28th, John Kennedy Duncan and Dr. 
 Hugh Campbell were ordained to the sacred office. Mr. Dun- 
 can was born and raised in Carlisle, admitted to this church upon 
 certificate, and at once elected elder and served faithfully for one 
 year and was dismissed in 1830 to the Tent Church. Thence he 
 removed to Springhill ; thence to low^a City and thence to Du- 
 buque, where he died in 1869. 
 
 Dr. Hugh Campbell was born in Uniontown, Pa., May ist, 
 1795, and died there, February 27th, 1876. His father was Ben- 
 jamin Campbell, who was born at New London Cross-roads, 
 Chester county. Pa., and his mother was Mary Adair, of Cooks- 
 town, Ireland, and afterwards of London, Franklin county, Pa. 
 His father was a silversmith, who removed from Hagers- 
 town, Md., to Uniontown, about 1778, where he died, September 
 24th, 1843. He was a man of modest means, with twelve child- 
 ren, to whom he could of course give but small advantages of 
 education. He was a member of the Presbyterian church of 
 Uniontown from its organization. Dr. Hugh Campbell obtained 
 what education he could at his home and attended Jefferson Col- 
 lege one year, 1812— 13. He studied medicine with Dr. Daniel 
 Marchand, of Uniontown, and attended the University of Penn- 
 sylvania, at Philadelphia, where he graduated and in 1817 opened 
 his office as a physician and surgeon in Uniontown. In 
 
Hugh Camprell, Wl. D. 
 
 See Appendix also. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 121 
 
 September, 1823, he married Miss Susan Baird, of Washington, 
 Penn'a, a sister of Judge Thomas Baird. She died in 1824. 
 April 15th, 1828, Dr. Campbell was married in Chambersburg, 
 Pa., to Miss Rachel Broome Lyon, a daughter of Samuel Lyon, 
 Esq., of Carlisle, Pa. By this marriage there were eight children, 
 six of whom are (1888) still living. The subject of this sketch 
 joined the Presbyterian church of Uniontown, October 9th, 1825, 
 at the same time with Nathaniel Ewing, his life-long friend and 
 fellow laborer in the church. He was ordained and installed an 
 elder in this church, September 28th, 1829, and served as an ac- 
 tive member of Session till his removal to Allegheny, Penn'a, 
 in 1865, to enter on his duties as Warden of the Western 
 Penitentiary. While there he was an elder in Dr. Swift's 
 Church. He returned to Uniontown to reside in 1868. He was 
 a Commissioner to the General Assemblies of 1833, 1834, 1835, 
 1836, 1838, 1847, 1858 and others. He also represented the 
 Presbyterian Church of this country in the Scotch Assembly at 
 Edinburgh in 1869. Dr. Campbell was a man of eminent ability 
 and exercised great influence for good. He was a close student 
 of the Bible all his life. Amongst his last words were, "I feel it 
 is by the grace of God, I am what I am." 
 
 Hugh Espey was elected an elder, December 25th, 1831. 
 He was clerk of Session from March, 1832, till 185 i. He was 
 born in the bounds of Tyrone Church, where he made a profes- 
 sion of religion at an early age. About 18 12, he removed to 
 Rising Sun, Ind., and was made a Ruling Elder at the organiza- 
 tion of the church there, in 18 16. On account of poor health 
 he returned to Pennsylvania, in 1822, and died at his home here, 
 trusting in Jesus, in 1852. He was a most excellent man. 
 
 Hon. Nathaniel Ewing was born in Fayette county. Pa., July 
 1 8th, 1794. He was the son of William tawing, who came into 
 Fayette county as a surveyor in 1790 and settled in the Dunlap's 
 Creek neighborhood, and married Mary, daughter of Jehu Con- 
 well. He graduated at Washington College under Dr. Matthew 
 Brown, in 1812, with the highest honors of his class. He taught 
 a year in Newark, Delaware, then studied law with Hon. Thomas 
 McGiffin, of Washington, Pa., and was admitted to the Washing- 
 
122 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 ton bar in June, 1816. The next year he removed to Uniontown, 
 where he resided till his death, February 8th, 1874, in the eighti- 
 eth year of his age and the forty-first of his eldership. He uni- 
 ted with the church, October 9th, 1825, and February 3d, 1833, 
 he was ordained as Ruling Elder. In 1822 he married Jane, the 
 second daughter of the late Judge Kennedy, a most estimable 
 lady, who died in 1825. She was the mother of John Kennedy 
 Ewing, a member of the present Session. In 1830 he married 
 Ann Lyon, daughter of the late Rev. David Denny, of Cham- 
 bersburg. In 1838 Mr. Ewing was appointed by Governor Rit- 
 ner. President Judge of the Fourteenth Judicial district to fill a 
 vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge Baird. He served 
 the constitutional term of ten years and left the Bench with in- 
 creased confidence on the part of the people in his integrity and 
 legal qualifications and without a stain on his judicial ermine. 
 One of the Judges of the Supreme Court, himself a great law- 
 yer, said he was the best Common Pleas Judge in the State. Af- 
 ter leaving the Bench, he did not return to the practice of law, 
 except in occasional cases in behalf of old friends. He was a 
 fine ecclesiastical lawyer and had great influence in the General 
 Assembly, of which he was a member in 1836, 1837, 1839 and 
 1850, as Commissioner from the Presbytery of Redstone. Judge 
 Ewing was the most eminent, useful and influential citizen of 
 Fayette county in his day and he also exercised his activity, in- 
 fluence and talents in the cause of Christ. To the very close of 
 his life there was no apparent weakening of his powerful intel- 
 lect. As in life, so in death, he leaned on God as the strength of 
 his life and his eternal portion, and on a Sabbath morning quietly 
 breathed his last on earth and began his eternal Sabbath in 
 Heaven. 
 
 William Redick and Charles Brown were ordained elders, 
 February 3d, 1833, by Rev. Joel Stoneroad. Mr. Redick served 
 as elder till 1856, when he removed to the State of Illinois, where 
 he now lives. He was born in Venango county in 1799. He 
 was a good man and served with acceptance to the people. 
 
 Mr. Brown ceased to act at his own request. He left 
 Fayette county in 1848 and now resides in Western Virginia. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 23 
 
 David Veech was elected an elder in this church, January 
 13th, 1845. He was born in Fayette county, June 6th, 1781, of 
 Scotch-Irish parentage. He removed to Greene county in 18 12, 
 and was ordained elder in the New Providence Church. In 1832 
 he settled in the bounds of Dunlap's Creek Church and served as 
 an elder there till he came to Uniontown in 1839. ^^ served 
 with great acceptance here till laid aside from active service in '61. 
 His death occurred, February 14th, 1866. He was a good man 
 and the memory of his influence and works is still fragrant 
 among us. He was the father of James Veech, Esq., long a res- 
 ident of this community. 
 
 SIMON B. MERCER AND BENJAMIN CAMPBELL. 
 
 On the 15th of April, 1866, Mr. Mercer was installed and 
 Mr. Campbell ordained and installed as elders in this church. 
 Mr. Mercer was formerly an elder in the church of Bridgewater, 
 Pa. He served here but one year when he removed to Salts- 
 burg, Pa., where he was installed as elder. 
 
 Mr. Campbell was clerk of Session from June, 1866, till 
 June, 1873. He ceased to act from 1873. He was the son of 
 Dr. Hugh Campbell and still resides amongst us. 
 
 Jasper Markle Thompson, John Kennedy Ewing, Alexander 
 Wilkinson Boyd and William McCleary, constitute the present 
 (1876) Session. Messrs. Thompson and Ewing were ordained 
 and installed, March 4th, i860. 
 
 Mr. Thompson was born in Kentucky, August 30th, 1822, 
 and came to Uniontown from Westmoreland county, of this 
 State, in 1848, and confessed Christ here. He was a member of 
 the Legislature in 1873. 
 
 Mr. Ewing was born, December 15th, 1823 and has resided 
 here all his life. He was Commissioner to the General Assembly 
 that met in Pittsburgh in 1865. (Judge Ewing was also a mem- 
 ber of the Assembly that met in Omaha, Neb., in 1887. He was 
 Chairman of the Committee on the Board of Aid for Colleges 
 and Academies. He also introduced a series of resolutions 
 recommending important changes in "The Church at Home and 
 Abroad," which was adopted.) 
 
124 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 Mr. Boyd, born April ist, 1831, came by letter from the 
 United Presbyterian Church and was ordained to the office of 
 elder here, April 15th, 1866. He was a delegate to the General 
 
 Assembly of 1874. 
 
 Mr. McCleary, born October loth, 181 3, came from the M. 
 E. Church, by letter, to the Old Frame Church in this county, 
 and was ordained as an elder by Rev. H. O. Rosborough, the 
 pastor, May ist, 1864. He became a member of Session here, 
 October loth, 1868. 
 
 DEACONS. 
 
 In December, 1867, William H. Bailey. William H. Miller, 
 Richard Miller and Daniel F. Cooper, were elected, ordained and 
 installed as Deacons and the care of the church property passed 
 from the care of Trustees into their hands. W. H. Bailey was 
 made treasurer. 
 
 THE CHURCH. 
 
 Before 1825 the membership is unknown. Dr. Fairchild 
 held the first election for elders, of which there is any record and 
 formally organized the church, February 24th, 1825. The mem- 
 bership then was fifty-three, of whom forty-two were women. 
 In 1826 it was sixty and at the close of Mr. Stoneroad's pastor- 
 ate, in 1842, 157. The largest addition made to the roll at any 
 time, was during the first year of Mr. Stoneroad's labors, when 
 forty-eight were added. During the last year of Mr. Hamilton's 
 labors, twenty-nine were received and, during the first two years 
 of Mr. Gilson's pastorate, seventy. In 1876 the roll showed 193 
 in communion. The six oldest members are Mrs. Elizabeth Lew- 
 is, received by confession and baptism, June 26th, 1825 ; Mrs. 
 Rachel Campbell, widow of Dr. H. Campbell, received by letter, 
 October 21st, 1830; Mrs. Ann L. Evving, widow of Hon. Na- 
 thaniel Ewing, received by letter, November 13th, 1830; Mrs. 
 Eliza Willson, by letter, October 6th, 1833 ; Mrs. Catharine Di- 
 cus, on examination, October 6th, 1833; Miss Agnes Dutton, on 
 examination, August 12th, 1836 (the last three are still in the 
 membership of this church, September, 1888.) 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 125 
 
 CONTRIBUTIONS. 
 
 The first record of a contribution occurs in 1829, when 
 ;$3.oo were given to the Commissioners' fund. At first the con- 
 tributions were irregular and full statistics were not kept until 
 about twenty-five years ago. The benevolence of the church, 
 like its membership, though varying much in different years, has 
 in the main steadily grown. During the years covered by statis- 
 tics, this church has given in all over ^50,000, besides much of 
 which there is no record. 
 
 PRAYER MEETINGS. 
 
 The weekly prayer meeting has been in existence from a 
 very early period. Its experience has been the usual one, some- 
 times flourishing and sometimes languishing. 
 
 Judge Ewing and Dr. Campbell were constant and efficient 
 helpers. The prayer meeting has always been well attended by 
 the women of the church and there have been occasions when 
 there was not a man present. For fifty years, at least, a monthly 
 concert of prayer for missions has been kept up with more or 
 less regularity and with varying interest. 
 
 THE SABBATH SCHOOL. 
 
 The germ of this Sabbath School — the first in Uniontown — 
 was a class taught by Mrs. Wylie, in her own home. A school 
 was formally organized about 1820, and Rev. Wm. Wylie su- 
 perintended it till his removal to Wheeling. Miss "Betsey" 
 Hadden sometimes conducted it for long periods entirely alone. 
 After her death, the successive superintendents were Nathaniel 
 Ewing, Joseph Kibler, E. P. Oliphant, Dr. H. Campbell, W. H. 
 Bailey and A. W. Boyd. 
 
 In 1848 Dr. Campbell was elected superintendent and held 
 the office till 1865, the longest service ever given in this Sabbath 
 School by one man. Up to 1848 the average attendance annu- 
 ally was about eighty. During Dr. Campbell's superintendency 
 the contributions to the cause of missions were about 5i2i. 
 
 CHURCH EDIFICES. 
 
 The first services were held in the old Court House, which 
 stood on the site of the present one. About the year 1824, a 
 
126 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 church edifice was begun, which after various difficulties was 
 completed and dedicated in January, 1827. It was on the pub- 
 lic ground, a little south of the site of the present Town Hall, 
 with the gable fronting Morgantown street and stood a little back 
 from the street. It cost about ^3,000. It was a plain, one-story 
 brick, about 30x50. Objection being made to occupying the public 
 grounds, the present location was purchased in 1836 and a second 
 building erected. Elder Wm. Redick was the architect, con- 
 tractor and builder of this new edifice. It was of brick, two- 
 story, with high windows answering for both stories, with vesti- 
 bule, steeple and bell, and large columns in front. The lecture 
 room was occupied in the fall of 1837 ^"*^ ^^e audience room the 
 next spring. It cost about ^5,500. The building was not very 
 satisfactory and a fire in April, 1857, which damaged the interior, 
 gave a reason for building the present edifice. This is of brick, 
 two stories, 47x75 feet in size, semi-gothic in style. The win- 
 dows are of stained glass. It was dedicated to God, April loth, 
 i860, and cost, exclusive of the lot, about $10,000. 
 
 The memorial fund raised by the congregation was appro- 
 priated to the building of a parsonage. This work was begun in 
 September, 1875, and completed in 1876, and stands as a 
 monument of the Centennial year. It was a handsome and 
 convenient brick house on Gallatin avenue and cost $4,200. 
 (This building was sold in 1879, as it was thought to be too far 
 out of town.) 
 
 Only two men have entered the Gospel ministry from this 
 congregation, Wm. Campbell and Samuel Campbell, sons of Dr. 
 Hugh Campbell. 
 
 The preceding pages bring our history to the close ot No- 
 vember, 1876. In December following, the congregation at a 
 meeting, properly called, declined to adopt the Rotary System of 
 Eldership. A. W. Boyd, a Ruling Elder, having removed, was 
 dismissed, April, 1877. 
 
 Charles L. Smith, Isaiah W. Miller, Morgan H. Bowman, 
 Josiah V. Thompson and Samuel E. Ewing, were elected Dea- 
 cons, June 1st, 1878, and all, except J. V. Thompson, who de- 
 clined, were ordained and installed, June i6th, 1878. Of the pre- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 12/ 
 
 vioiis members of the Board, W. H. Bailey removed to Minne- 
 apolis, Minn., early in 1879; Richard Miller, died, July 7th, 1880, 
 and Daniel F. Cooper removed to Port Perry, Pa., March, 1888, 
 M. H. Bowman was made treasurer. 
 
 Rev. S. S. Gilson resigned the pastorate and the congrega- 
 tion acquiescing, the relation was dissolved, June, 1879. 
 
 A call was made, April 17th, 1880, for Rev. A. S. Milholland 
 and accepted and he was installed as pastor, June, 1880. 
 
 James A. Phillips, John A. C. Boyd and Nathaniel Ewing 
 were elected elders, April 21st, 1883, and ordained and installed, 
 May 6th, following. C. L. Smith, deacon, was dismissed, Ma}-, 
 1883. and J. A. Phillips, elder, January, 1888. 
 
 The degree of D. D. was conferred on Rev. A. S. Milhol- 
 land, by the University of Wooster, O., June 24th, 1885. 
 
 During the latter year, the congregation erected a handsome 
 brick parsonage. 
 
 Mr. H. S. Clark is Superintendent of the Sabbath School 
 and it has increased from 100, as reported, April ist 1877, to 263. 
 There were added to the church last year on examination, twen- 
 ty-four, of whom eleven were baptized, and by letter, sixteen. 
 The number of communicants has increased from 193, April ist, 
 1877 to 310, April ist, 1 1 
 
 BROWNSVILLE. 
 
 BY REV. B. M. KERR. 
 
 The exact date of the organization of this church is un- 
 known. Probably the congregation never was formally organ- 
 ized, as all new congregations now are, and it may not have had 
 any Ruling Elders for years. In the minutes of the Presbytery of 
 
128 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 Redstone under date of October 15th, 181 1, is the earliest men- 
 tion which has been found of Presbyterian worship at Browns- 
 ville. At that time the Rev. Boyd Mercer — for whom the com- 
 piler of this was named — applied for permission to continue 
 preaching to the people of Brownsville and Uniontown. The 
 Presbytery of Redstone declined to sanction the existing engage- 
 ments because not made agreeably to the required regulations, 
 Mr. Mercer being a member of the Presbytery of Ohio. 
 
 On the 20th of April, 181 3, Mr. Wm. Johnston, a li- 
 centiate, under the care of the Presbytery of Ohio, applied to the 
 Presbytery of Redstone for admission. He was received on the 
 2 1 St and on the same day a call from the congregations of Browns- 
 ville and Dunlap's Creek for his ministerial services was laid be- 
 fore the Presbytery. On the 20th of October, 181 3, he was or- 
 dained and installed pastor over the united congregations. His 
 pastorate continued at Dunlap's Creek till December 3d, 1839, 
 and at Brownsville, in connection with Little Redstone, until his 
 death, which occurred, December 31st, 1841. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Martin was his successor over these now 
 united congregations. He began his stated labors, April ist, 
 1842 and was ordained and installed pastor, Januaiy 4th, 1843. 
 He continued in this relation just nine years and was greatly be- 
 loved. Feeble health required rest and a change of climate. 
 The date of his decease is unknown to the writer. 
 
 Mr. Robert M. Wallace commenced his labors over 
 the united congregations, January 28th, 1853, and was ordained 
 and installed, June 15th, 1853. This relation continued until 
 February 17th, 1864. At the same time Mr. Wallace was dis- 
 missed to the Presbytery of Huntingdon, in order to his accept- 
 ance of a call to the Presbyterian Church of Altoona, Pa. 
 
 Mr. Joseph H. Stevenson followed, May 4th, 1864, and 
 was ordained and installed, October 14th, 1864. On the 24th of 
 April, 1866, Mr. Stevenson presented to the Presbytery a request 
 from the two churches to be recognized as separate and distinct 
 organizations. The Presbytery acceded to the request, and con- 
 stituted the elders residing in the bounds of Brownsville, togeth- 
 er with the pastor, as the Session of the Brownsville Church. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. I 29 
 
 After a pastorate of nearly four years, Mr. Stevenson resigned in 
 April, 1868. He was succeeded by the Rev. E. P. Lewis, who 
 served the church acceptably for some three or four years. 
 
 The Rev. W. W. McLane was called to this church, Decem- 
 ber 19th, 1873, and was installed pastor. May 13th, 1874. This 
 relation continued until April, 1878, when, at the request of the 
 pastor, it was dissolved by the Presbytery and Mr. McLane was 
 dismissed to the Presbytery of Steubenville. 
 
 Rev. A. S, Milholland was called to the pastorate, Septem- 
 ber 1 8th, 1878. He served the church as pastor-elect for about 
 eighteen months. Declining the call he returned it to the Pres- 
 bytery, April, 1880. 
 
 Rev. A. B. Fields served the church as Stated Supply for 
 some two or three years, after whom, the Rev. W. G. Nevin was 
 called to the pastorate. In this capacity he served the church 
 nearly two years. Resigning, he was released in the fall of 1884. 
 
 Rev. A. S. Hunter served the church as Stated Supply for 
 one year, from January, 1886, to January, 1887. 
 
 In February, 1887, the Rev. B. M. Kerr was invited to sup- 
 ply the church for one year and on the first of March following, 
 he and his family took possession of the new and commodious 
 parsonage which had just been finished. On the evening of 
 May 2d, 1888, Mr. Kerr was installed as pastor. 
 
 Until after 1875 the Presbyterians of Brownsville had no 
 regular house of worship. 
 
 On the 14th of June, 181 5, Joseph Thornton, John Steele, 
 and John Johnston, trustees of the congregation of Brownsville, 
 purchased for ;^200, and five shillings annual ground-rent, lot No. 
 3 on Second street, having a front of sixty feet and extending 180 
 feet to Market street. It was conveyed to them "in trust for the 
 use of the Presbyterian congregation of Brownsville for the pur- 
 pose of erecting a meeting-house thereon, for the benefit of the 
 congregation aforesaid." Soon afterwards there was built on the 
 Second street front a brick edifice, which was used as a house 
 of worship until the present church was completed on the same 
 lot but frontingf on Market street. 
 
130 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 Of the elders, William Parkhill was the only one living with- 
 in the bounds of the Brownsville Church, at the time of its sep- 
 aration from Little Redstone Church, in April, 1866. On the 
 22d of August, 1873, A. J. Isler and Josiah Reed were elected 
 Ruling Elders, and on the 13th of September, 1876, J. R. Pat- 
 terson was elected to the same office. On account of resigna- 
 tions and removals, Mr. Wm. Parkhill is, and for some time has 
 been, the only Ruling Elder. 
 
 The church now (January 30th, 1888), numbers 134 mem- 
 bers. A Sabbath School connected with the church has an at- 
 tendance of about 100, including teachers, and is under the effi- 
 cient superintendency of Mr. William Parkhill. The church 
 contributes quite liberally to all the Boards as recommended by 
 our General Assembly. 
 
 CONNELLSVILLE. 
 
 BY REV. W. A. EDIE. 
 
 Within a few years after its incorporation as a borough in 
 1 806, Connellsville became the home of several Presbyterian fam- 
 ilies. Religious services were held at frequent intervals, con- 
 ducted, in part, by the Rev. James Guthrie, pastor of the Ty- 
 rone Church and, in part, by the Rev. William Wylie, pastor at 
 Uniontown. These families were connected, however, with the 
 Tyrone Church until the year 1831, when, on the 4th day of Oc- 
 tober, the Presbytery of Redstone, in accordance with their own 
 request, organized them as a cchurch. Twenty-two names 
 were enrolled, viz. : Mr. Alexander Johnston, Mrs. Alexander 
 Johnston, Miss Nancy C. Johnston (now Mrs. Blackstone), Mr. 
 
■^^ Samua Sari^'^'^ 
 
 ^OC-tZf 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. I3I 
 
 Wm. Lytle, Mrs. Mary Lytle, Mr. Isaac Taylor, Mrs. Rachel 
 Taylor, Sarah Turner, Dr. Joseph Rodgers, Mrs. Elizabeth Rod- 
 gers, Elizabeth Carson, Nancy Norton, Louisa Norton, Mar- 
 garet Francis, Harriet Fuller, Margaret Lytle, Caroline Trevor, 
 Mary Barnett, Samuel Finley, Mary Finley, Samuel McCormick 
 and Elizabeth McCormick. Of these twenty-two persons, nine- 
 teen had belonged to the Tyrone Church. Mr. Alexander John- 
 ston, already an Elder in the Tyrone Church, served as the first 
 and, for several months, as the only elder in the Connellsville 
 Church. An Irishman by birth, a Presbyterian by conviction, a 
 man of great force of character and of great perseverance in 
 Christian work, to him the church is largely indebted for its suc- 
 cess in the early years of its history. After a busy life of more 
 than four score years, he died on the 3d day of September, 1864. 
 Mr. Johnston's official responsibilities were lightened when, on 
 October 28th, 1832, Messrs. William Lytle, Isaac Taylor and Jo- 
 seph Paull were added to the eldership of the church. Of these 
 persons, William Lytle died, December 7th, 1 845 ; Isaac Taylor, 
 August 29th, 1869; and Joseph Paull, February 14th, 18S0. On 
 the 7th of March, 1844, Robert Torrence, Noble C. McCormick 
 and Wm. Cunningham, all now dead, were made elders. On 
 January 7th, 1850, Wm. McCrea, John Taylor and Joseph H. 
 Cunningham were added to the list; September 29th, 185 i, Sam- 
 uel Russell; March 20th, 1866, Robert Beatty; April i6th, 1873, 
 John R.Johnston; second Sabbath of February, 1874, Thomas 
 W. Watt; April 5th, 1874, A. B. Hosack and H. C. McCormick; 
 Nov. 28th, 1875, Wm. Barnett; May 6th, 1878, Charles N. Boyd; 
 and December 7th, 1879, James Calhoun. Of these, three have 
 been released by certificate the others, with the exception of one 
 suspended, have been released by death. The present eldership 
 is composed of James Allen, installed, February 24th, 1868; Adam 
 Armstrong, ordained, November 28th, 1875 ; Jacob May, May 6th, 
 1878; Hugh M. Kerr, December 7th, 1879; James L. Paull and 
 William D. McDowell, September 4th, 1883. (Mr. Paull was or- 
 dained and installed, April i6th, '"j^, but in '74 was transferred 
 to Dunbar, returning to Connellsville Church, May 26th, 1883.) 
 It will be seen, from this statement, that, from the organization of 
 
132 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 the church to the present date, twenty-five names have been en- 
 rolled as elders. 
 
 The petition, presented to the Presbytery, asking for an or- 
 ganization, was accompanied by a request for supplies. Accord- 
 ingly, the records show that Rev. T. M. Chestnut supplied the 
 church for some time in 1831, and Rev. John L. Hawkins acted 
 as Stated Supply from December 15th, 1831, till June 20th, 1837. 
 There have been eight pastors. 
 
 Rev. John L. Hawkins, the first pastor, was installed, June 
 20th, 1837, and was released, April 12th, 1843. 
 
 Rev. Ross Stevenson, the second, was installed, June 13th, 
 1845, ^^^ released in October, 1852. 
 
 Rev. James Black, the third pastor, was installed, June 14th, 
 1853, and released in April, i860. 
 
 • Rev. N. H. G. Fife, the fourth, was installed, April 29th, 
 1863; released, November 29th, 1867. 
 
 Rev. A. B. Fields, the fifth, was installed, January 29th, 
 1868, and released, June ist, 1869. 
 
 Rev. John M. Barnett, the sixth, was installed the third 
 Monday of May, 1870, and released, June ist, 1882. 
 
 Rev. A. Z. McGogney, the seventh, was installed, August 
 27th, 1882, and released, September 28th, 1886. 
 
 Rev. W. A. Edie, the present pastor, was installed. May 19th, 
 1887. 
 
 Among those who supplied the church during intervals of 
 vacancy, the records mention Revs. Wm. P. Moore and E. R. 
 Donehoo as having acted as Stated Supply, the former for one 
 year from March 24th, 1861, and the latter for six months from 
 June 2ist, 1862. 
 
 For several years after its organization, the congregation 
 held its services in other churches, its ordinary preaching ser- 
 vices in the Baptist church and its communion services in the 
 Methodist church. 
 
 On the 6th of January, 1839, the congregation was permit- 
 ted to enter a building of its own, an occasion of which the 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 33 
 
 church record states that it "was marked with appropriate relig- 
 ious services." This building continued in use until March 29th, 
 1863, when it was destroyed by fire. The walls, however, were 
 left standing and the church was soon rebuilt. 
 
 The present structure, remodeled and built on the founda- 
 tions of the old, with chapel built in the rear adjoining, was dedi- 
 cated Sabbath, December 21st, 1884. 
 
 In 1871 a parsonage was erected on lots donated for the 
 purpose by Messrs. John Taylor, John R. Johnston and Thos. 
 W. Watt. 
 
 The town of Connellsville, which at the time the church was 
 organized had but a few hundred inhabitants, has now a popula- 
 tion of about four thousand and is surrounded by a thickly set- 
 tled community. It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that the 
 church should have received large accessions to its membership 
 during the period of its history. Organized with twenty-two 
 members, the records, in 1843, •'^how a membership of iii. In 
 1845 a number of members were dismissed to form the Indian 
 Creek Church, and, in 1874, eighty-six members were dismissed 
 to form the church at Dunbar. The present membership is 
 about 320. The large majority of the membership is in the 
 town of Connellsville; a number live in New Haven, however, 
 across the Youghiogheny river; some live in the country and 
 some in Wheeler and White Rock, neighboring towns. Ser- 
 vices, conducted by Rev. N. G. White, are held at regular inter- 
 vals in Wheeler, in a chapel owned by the Connellsville church. 
 A Sabbath School, also, under the auspices of the church, is held 
 in the same place. A congregational Sabbath School was es- 
 tablished early in the history of the church. The present mem- 
 bership is about 210, under the superintendence of Mr. James 
 L. Paull. Women's Missionary Societies, home and foreign, 
 have been in existence for several years, together with an Aid 
 Society, which has rendered valuable service in reducing the debt 
 on the new house of worship. 
 
 The semi-centennial anniversary of the church's history was 
 appropriately celebrated in October, 1881. 
 
134 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 McCLELLANDTOWN. 
 
 BY ELDER GEORGE PORTER. 
 
 In the upland county of Fayette, in Western Pennsylvania, 
 a short mile almost due west from the little village of McClel- 
 landtown, in sight of the picturesque hills of the beautiful Mon- 
 ongahela, .stands the Presbyterian church of McClellandtown. 
 It is surrounded by a rich farming community. The land is 
 rolling, well-watered and fertile and the people are industrious, 
 prosperous and happy. 
 
 Regular Presbyterian preaching dates as far back as 1812 
 or 18 1 3, where Van Emon first, and after him Beeber, preached 
 in the log school-house, which stood on the farm of Elias Par- 
 shall. The school-house has long been torn down, and the little 
 company Avho worshiped there has almost all been called home 
 by the Master. Preaching was held in the school-house, and the 
 communion in the woods near by, on the farm now owned by 
 James A. Weltner. Two sermons each day of preaching were 
 had, morning and evening in winter, and in summer in daytime, 
 with an interval of two hours between. The preacher came 
 from the old Glade Church in Greene county. 
 
 This arrangement continued until about the year 1837, when 
 Rev. Samuel Wilson, then a young man, preached for the peo- 
 ple in the old brick Baptist church, which stood hard by the old 
 stone school-house, within easy view of our present church. He 
 preached here and at Masontown and taught school at Union- 
 town, but soon added Dunlap's Creek to his charge and then 
 dropped Masontown. 
 
 The interest deepening and members increasing, it was 
 deemed not only expedient, but necessary to organize a church 
 in this place, for which object thirty-nine members petitioned 
 Presbytery. In accordance with this request, Redstone Presby- 
 tery appointed Revs. William Johnson, A. G. Fairchild and Sam- 
 uel Wilson to organize a church. This committee on the 23d of 
 November, A. D., 1839, executed the will of Presbytery and 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 35 
 
 elected Thomas Wilson, Samuel Gettys, William Grov^e, Joseph 
 Deffenbaugh and Elisha Laughead as elders. Thus the present 
 church was organized, founded and started on its grand and 
 glorious mission as part of the great army of churches, to "fight 
 the good fight of faith." 
 
 Rev. Samuel Wilson was installed pastor, May 19th, 18 14, 
 over the large charge of Dunlap's Creek and McClellandtown. 
 He entered into the work with all the energy of his nature and 
 for a period of more than thirty years ministered acceptably to 
 the people "in season and out of season." He was a man who 
 prided himself on punctuality, a large man, of commanding 
 presence, and was loved and respected by all who knew him. 
 The congregation could rest assured on the morning of preach- 
 ing that he would be in the pulpit, ready to begin the service 
 promptly at eleven o'clock. If a little early, he might be seen 
 sitting upright in the saddle and coming in in fine shape; or if 
 time pressed him, leaning forward and tapping his horse at each 
 step with the old-fashioned cowhide, which every one carried 
 who rode on horseback at that time. Mr. Wilson's style of 
 preaching and his manner in the pulpit were looked upon at that 
 time as being perfect. He always read his sermons from full 
 manuscripts. They were well prepared, deep, searching and 
 thoroughly Presbyterian in all their details. Whatever he did was 
 always well done. 
 
 It soon became evident that a church ought to be built for 
 the growing congregation. Accordingly, at a meeting of Presby- 
 terians which was held in 1843, it was resolved to build a church 
 and the north-west corner of Jacob Deffenbaugh's farm was fixed 
 as the site for the new edifice. David Coffman, John Wilson, 
 Isaac Core and John Weltner were appointed to collect funds 
 and superintend the erection of the building. There were two 
 doors in the south end of the church. The male portion of the 
 congregation, with commendable pride and safety, entered by 
 the upper door with the easy step, and left the female portion to 
 get in as best they could over the rickety logs which served as 
 an approach to the lower door. 
 
136 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 The congregation was very Puritan and exclusive when once 
 in the church, the males occupying one side and the females the 
 other, with a strong division between. If, by chance, a stranger 
 entered the wrong door and seated himself with the opposite sex, 
 the gravity of the congregation was disturbed and it was looked 
 upon as a good joke. The pulpit was at the north end of the 
 house and was very much "stuck up." It was reached by a flight 
 of three or four steps and a small door shut the preacher in from 
 the people. The roof of the old house was supported by 
 six wooden columns, on which hung tin candle-holders, for 
 the common "tallow dip." More style was displayed in the light 
 for the pulpit and glass candlesticks were used. The janitor's 
 duty was to tiptoe around by the pulpit and by the wooden pil- 
 lars, and snuff the candles carefully and solemnly with a 
 pair of old-fashioned snuffers, generally snuffing out about half 
 the candles and lighting them at their nearest neighbors. Of 
 course every one watched the snuffing operation and laughed 
 when a candle went out. 
 
 The clerk stood meekly in front of the pulpit ready to "start 
 the metre" and "line-out" the hymns. The minister read the 
 first two lines and then handed the book over and down to the 
 clerk, who then started the music and did the rest of the "lining- 
 out." 
 
 A Sabbath School was started in 1846, with Samuel Gettys 
 as superintendent, and without a single failure a school has been 
 held every summer since. Sometimes the school has almost 
 died out and then again it has revived and taken on new life and 
 energy and it is now in a flourishing condition. After Samuel 
 Gettys came Jacob Deffenbaugh as superintendent, then Joseph 
 Deffenbaugh, then Hugh J. Gilmore, then the writer of this his- 
 tory. The amount of good this school has done and is now do- 
 ing, can only be known when eternity shall reveal all things. 
 
 The old church was accidentally destroyed by fire in the fall 
 of 1865. This was a severe loss, but with a firm reliance on the 
 Divine Blessing, the little congregation set vigorously to work to 
 rebjuild the church. At a regularly called meeting of the con- 
 gregation, April 1 2th, 1865, it was resolved to rebuild on the 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 3/ 
 
 same site. A committee consisting of John Wilson, Hugh J. 
 Gilmore, Conrad DeiTenbaugh, John Coffman and Isaac P. Ken- 
 dall was appointed to superintend the erection of the new church. 
 It was dedicated, on the 15th of February, 1867, and now we 
 have this present solid, commodious and beautiful house of wor- 
 ship, the high old pulpit and the tin candle-holders gone. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Wilson resigned the pastorate in 1869, lamented 
 by all. He had been the spiritual father of nearly the whole 
 congregation and his memory will always be green in the hearts 
 of his people. 
 
 Rev. James P. Fulton was called in the fall of 1869. Dur- 
 ing his pastorate the same charge continued, Dunlap's Creek and 
 McClellandtown. Mr. Fulton was a man of deep piety and 
 earnestness. He generally read his sermons, but was seen and 
 heard to best advantage when he spoke without notes. His 
 great theme was a personal Saviour, the certainty of punishment 
 for sin and the all-powerful love of Christ for a world lost in 
 wickedness. 
 
 At the close of Mr. Fulton's pastorate the church of Dun- 
 lap's Creek notified the church of McClellandtown of their in- 
 tention to ask Presbyter^' to dissolve the relation of the churches, 
 as they had concluded to employ a minister the whole of his 
 time. This was a cruel blow to the struggling little church, as 
 it was emphatically the legitimate child of the old Dunlap's 
 Creek Church. Nourished by the mother church, the bounds of 
 each meeting, the members mingling together, theirs was a com- 
 mon interest and together they grew and prospered. This un- 
 natural act of a natural mother casting out her offspring left the 
 little church again out in the cold, with dissolution staring her in 
 the face. But determining not to be destroyed thus ruthlessly, 
 she soon formed a connection with Tent and Fairchance. Al- 
 though this was not a natural union, as the churches were in no 
 way identified, the connection has proved harmonious and the 
 churches are all prosperous and happy. 
 
 April 1st, 1879, Rev. S. S. Bergen was called to take charge of 
 the new-made pastorate, Tent, Fairchance and McClellandtown. 
 Mr. Bergen was a popular man in the congregation. He was an 
 
138 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE, 
 
 earnest talker and expounder of the Scriptures, almost invariably 
 reading his sermons. His strong points were, the punishment of 
 men for ingratitude, carelessness, listlessness, and allowing them- 
 selves to drift unprepared into eternity, knowing better. Mr, 
 Bergen was most active in burnishing up the church outside and 
 in. Through his exertions the present roof was put on the 
 church and the modern and beautiful lamps hung in the inside. 
 He was dismissed at his own request, by Presbytery, April, 1882. 
 
 In October, 1882, our present pastor, Rev. M. C. Bailey, 
 was called, and has continued ever since to minister acceptably 
 to his charge. Mr. Bailey's style of oratory differs from all who 
 have preceded him. He speaks on all occasions without notes, 
 throws his whole soul into his theme and when fully aroused 
 fairly pounds his thoughts into his hearers. His great idea is 
 that prophecy is being fulfilled at this time and in this country. 
 That this is the limit of "Westward," that the "Star of Empire" 
 can go no farther, that here God intends to display His power 
 and that the history now making and to be made in the very 
 near future, will be momentous in import and more wonderful 
 than all that has gone before or will come after. 
 
 The growth of our church has been slow but sure. During 
 the last part of Mr. Wilson's pastorate, a special outpouring of 
 God's Spirit brought scores into the fold. At the dedication of 
 the new house there seemed to be a feeling of deep interest and 
 the meetings were continued from the day of dedication, Febru- 
 ary 15th, to April 14th, when forty were publicly taken into the 
 church and acknowledged Christ as their Saviour. This was, 
 indeed, a day long to be remembered in the history of the church 
 and the good effects are still seen and felt in this community. 
 Quite a number united with the church during Mr. Fulton's 
 charge and under our present pastor over twenty have been 
 added to the church, we hope of such as shall be saved. 
 
 During the pastorate of Rev. Samuel Wilson, Redstone 
 Presbytery held a regular session at our little church, which was 
 quite an event in her history. While Mr. Bergen ministered to 
 us a second meeting of Presbytery was held here, so this little 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 39 
 
 church has had the honor of entertaining two meetings of Red- 
 stone Presbytery. 
 
 At a meeting of the congregation held, November 12th, 
 1852, Johnson Vankirk and Jacob Deffenbaugh, Jr., were ordain- 
 ed Ruhng Elders. James Wilson and George H. Core were or- 
 dained and took their seats as Ruling Elders, April 25th, 1862. 
 James Scott, Conrad Deffenbaugh and George Porter were elect- 
 ed Ruling Elders, May 24th, 1868, and ordained, June 13th, 1868. 
 April 22d, 1877, George Dearth, Josiah B. Crow and Henry D. 
 Core were elected Ruling Elders, and on June loth, were by 
 prayer and the laying on of hands, regularly ordained. The 
 present elders are Conrad Deffenbaugh, George W. Core, Henry 
 D. Core, Josiah B. Crow and George Porter. 
 
 We are glad to say (not boastingly) that this church has 
 been and now is a blessing to the community in which it is 
 placed, not only to Presbyterians, but to the whole community. 
 The Sabbath School — a union one — welcomes all who come; for 
 the great work of the church is to save souls. The great duty 
 seems to be to save the souls of the children, believing that they, 
 well-educated morally, are the anchor to hold our country, not 
 only when torn and rent by political fury or bloody war, but to 
 hold it for God and His Christ. 
 
 During all these long years of prosperity, we are glad to 
 know our church has not been distracted and torn by dissensions 
 and quarrels. Free from scandal and complaining, we thank 
 God that we have passed so long without any of these scenes 
 that do so much harm to the cause of religion. Now, while we 
 are thankful for our present peace and good feeling, let us be 
 careful for the future and hand down this little church with her 
 honor as bright and untarnished as we found it and as it is now. 
 
140 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 SPRINGHILL FURNACE. 
 
 BY REV. H. O. ROSBOROUGH. 
 
 Mr. John Kennedy Duncan, an elder in the Tent Church, 
 purchased Springhill Furnace and moved to the place in 1834. 
 Rev. A. G. Fairchild, D. D., was in the habit of preaching in the 
 neighborhood on week days. In 1836 a frame meeting-house 
 was built entirely at Mr. Duncan's expense. This house had 
 two front doors, with the pulpit between them. In 1879 this 
 building was repaired and remodeled, there being now but one 
 door and the pulpit in the opposite end of the house, at a cost of 
 ^507, and the repaired building was dedicated, February 22d, 
 1880, by Rev. H. O. Rosborough. In 1841 the number of mem- 
 bers in the vicinity had increased to about twenty-five, when a 
 petition was forwarded to Presbytery for the organization of a 
 church. Presbytery granted the request and appointed a com- 
 mittee, consisting of Revs. Fairchild, Stoneroad and McLean, to 
 attend to the organization, the time being left discretionary with 
 the committee. The committee met, June i8th, the congrega- 
 tion having been previously notified. Rev. Joel Stoneroad 
 preached, Heb. 11:24. The following persons were received to 
 constitute the church about to be organized, viz. : Dismissed 
 from Tent Church — John K. Duncan, Mrs. Anna W. Duncan, 
 Eliza Oliphant, Elizabeth Keerns, Mary Osborn, Sam'l Bunting, 
 Nancy Bunting, Matilda Phillips, John Williams, Mrs. Williams, 
 Jas. Huston, Margaret Huston, Jane Shuff, Catherine Biglow, 
 Sam'l Buxton, Ruth A. Buxton, Joseph, James and Rebecca 
 Butler. George's Creek Church: Mrs. Beatie. John Dunlap, 
 Catherine Dunlap, Rosanna Davis, Jesse E. Stentz and Samuel 
 N. Bedford. Uniontown Church : Samuel Duncan and Mar- 
 garet, his wife. The committee then proceeded to organize the 
 church in the constitutional order. Samuel Duncan and James 
 Huston were elected elders and were ordained. Mr. Stoneroad 
 presided, proposed the constitutional questions and made the or- 
 dination prayer, and Mr. Fairchild delivered an appropriate ex- 
 hortation to the people and closed with prayer. Rev. W. W. 
 McLean had been appointed Stated Supply by Presbytery at its 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. I4I 
 
 previous meeting. John K. Duncan was also elected an elder. 
 
 Rev. W. W. McLean supplied the church, or as some think 
 was pastor, until 1851, when he was called to the Mt. Pleasant 
 Church. 
 
 The church had many supplies from 1851 to 1864, among 
 whom were Dr. Fairchild, J. Mateer, W. A. Fleming, H, W. 
 Biggs, J. Davis, J. McClintock, J. H. Flanagan and H. O. Ros- 
 borough. 
 
 On the 13th of June, 1864, Rev. H. O. Rosborough was in- 
 stalled pastor for one-third of his time by Rev. J. McClintock 
 and Rev. W. F. Hamilton, who had been appointed for that pur- 
 pose, on a salary of $166 per annum. This pastorate continued 
 for nearly twelve years. 
 
 Rev. C. B. Wakefield was installed pastor of this church, in 
 connection with Fairchance, June 22d, 1881. This relation lasted 
 only about three momths. 
 
 Some of the supplies since 1876 were Revs. J. B. Dickey, 
 M. C. Bailey and H. O. Rosborough — the latter by appointment 
 of Presbyteiy, has been for several years Moderator of the Ses- 
 sion. 
 
 Total number of members from the organization to July 
 1st, 1887, is 192 ; about thirty-six of these are now (1887) living 
 in the bounds of the congregation. 
 
 Two members became ministers of Gospel, viz. : Samuel 
 Campbell and Jacob Ruble. Henry H. Ryland is now a candi- 
 date for the ministry. 
 
 MOUNT WASHINGTON. 
 
 BY REV. A. S. MILHOLLAND, D. D, 
 
 As but few facts pertaining to this church have been placed 
 upon record and but meagre information can be obtained from 
 those now living within its bounds, we shall be able to prepare 
 
142 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 but a very brief history. We shall attempt to present, as accu- 
 rately as possible, but a few of the most important facts, as we 
 can gather them from the limited sources at hand. 
 
 At a meeting of the Presbytery of Redstone, held at Laurel 
 Hill, on the first Tuesday of October, 1841, the Revs. Joel Stone- 
 road and W. W. McLean, and Mr. Wm. Redick, elder, were ap- 
 pointed a committee to visit Mount Washington and vicinity to 
 inquire into the expediency of organizing a Presbyterian church, 
 and, if they judged it expedient, to organize a church there be- 
 fore the next meeting of Presbytery, to be called the Church of 
 Mount Washington. 
 
 After considerable inquiry and deliberation, the committee 
 concluded that the interest of truth as well as the interest of 
 the Presbyterian church required such organization, and accord- 
 ingly appointed the 24th day of March (1842?) as the day 
 upon which the church should be formed. A majority of the com- 
 mittee being present on the day appointed. Rev. Joel Stoneroad 
 preached on the occasion, from 2 Cor. 12:10, latter clause: "For 
 when I am weak then am I strong," and after the preaching of 
 the sermon proceeded to the election of Elders. Messrs. Seth 
 Hyatte and Simon Snyder were elected to that office, after which, 
 Mr. Stoneroad made the necessary remarks on the nature and 
 duty of the eldership and the reciprocal obligation of both el- 
 ders and people, and there, with the elders present, as one of the 
 committee, proceeded by prayer and imposition of hands, sol- 
 emnly to ordain and set apart the elders elected to the office of 
 Ruling Elder in that congregation, the elders and people hav- 
 ing answered affirmatively the requisite constitutional questions. 
 The names of the persons dismissed on the occasion from the 
 church of Uniontown, with a view to form the new organization, 
 are as follows : Mr. Benjamin Elliot, Mrs. Eunice Elliott, Mr. 
 Daugherty Elliot, Mr. Solomon Elliot, Mrs. Susan Kretchman, 
 Mrs. Esther Conaway, Mrs. Long (daughter of Mrs. Kretchman,) 
 Mrs. Shaffer, Mrs. Reynolds, Mrs. Belinda Reynolds, Mrs. Mc- 
 Cartney, Mrs. Mathews, Mrs. Ripple, Mrs. Mary Elliot, Miss 
 Mary Elliot, Mr. John Robinson, Mrs. Rebecca Robinson, Mrs. 
 Gaither, Miss Elizabeth Gaither, Mr. William Gaither (un- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 43 
 
 der suspension), Mrs. Hill, Miss Christiana Hill, Miss Nan- 
 cy Hill, Miss Jane Hill, Mr. Robert Hill. 
 
 The following persons are from the Presbyterian church at 
 Tent, viz.: Mr. Simon Snyder, Mr. Morgan H. Jones, Mrs. Sa- 
 rah O. Stewart, Mr. Seth Hagan and Miss Hyatte. 
 
 Previous to the organization of this church at Mt. Wash- 
 ington, there was a church about seven miles distant, known as 
 Brown's Church. Whether this church was ever formally 
 organized we do not know, but the presumption is that it was 
 not. From this time on, for some years, the Brown and Mt. 
 Washington Churches seem to be one organization of one and 
 the same church. The next record after the one concerning the 
 organization of Mt. Washington Church, is as follows : 
 
 "The Session of the Presbyterian church of Mt. Washing- 
 ton met at Brown's Church, on the 2d day in May, 1842, for the 
 purpose of examining applicants for admission to the privileges 
 of the church. Present, Rev. J. McClintock, Moderator; Seth 
 Hyatte and Simon Snyder, Ruling Elders. Mrs. Daugherty El- 
 Hot was received at this meeting." The next meeting was held 
 at Mt. Washington, August 20th, 1842. The next record reads: 
 "The Session of the Presbyterian church of Mt. Washington con- 
 vened at Brown's Church on the 3d Sabbath of June, 1843." 
 The Rev. Mr. Martin was the Moderator of this meeting. An- 
 other record reads: "The Session of Mount Washington and 
 Brown's Church convened at Brown's on the 3d day of June, 
 1845. -^gain> the Session of Mt. Washington and Brown's 
 Church met at Brown's Church on the 4th day of July, 1846." 
 
 One of the elders of Mt. Washington Church informs me 
 that, at an early day the old log meeting house, which stood on 
 or near the site of the present Tent Church, was torn down and 
 removed to the mountains, where it was re-erected and is still 
 standing, though not occupied and is known as the "Old Brown 
 Church." The distance which these logs were hauled is about 
 twelve miles. The name of "Brown" seems to have been 
 dropped about the year 1863 ; it is thereafter known as Mt. Wash- 
 ington. This church has never been strong — never self-support- 
 ing — and so far as I can ascertain, never had a settled pastor. 
 
144 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 The Revs. Joel Stoneroad, H. O. Rosborough, S. S. Bergen, 
 C. B. Wakefield and C. C. B. Duncan have been among its Stated 
 Supplies. 
 
 Mr. G. W. Hensel, Mr. James McCann and Mr. S. D. Elli- 
 ott compose the present Session. 
 
 The present church building, which is small, is built of logs, 
 weather-boarded and plastered, and was erected soon after the or- 
 ganization of the church. 
 
 The membership at this time is not more than thirty. 
 
 WEST NEWTON. 
 
 BY REV. J. C. MELOY. 
 
 Prior to 185 1 this church was a part of the Sewickley con- 
 gregation, whose house of worship was located four miles from 
 the town of West Newton, originally called Robbstown. For 
 many years people living in town rode or walked over the hills 
 to worship the God of their fathers in that grand old church, 
 whose history runs back over a period of more than 1 10 years. 
 It is difficult to tell who preached the first sermon in West New- 
 ton or who planted the seed which has grown and matured into 
 the vigorous plant of to-day. The earliest trace of evangelistic 
 work is a communication in "The Weekly Recorder" of 1822, 
 emanating from the pen of the Rev. A. O. Patterson, D. D., who 
 at that time was pastor of the Sewickley Presbyterian Church. 
 Speaking of eight different Sabbath Schools which he had or- 
 ganized and maintained within the bounds of his charge, he says: 
 "Robbstown Sabbath School, No. i, was organized in March 
 last, under the direction of two superintendents and seven teach- 
 ers and contains seventy-two scholars, one-half of whom recite 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 45 
 
 from memory and had recited on the 27th of October, 6,042 
 verses of Scripture, 234 pages of Catechism and 226 hymns. 
 This school has been well attended and continues to prosper." 
 
 Public worship was held as opportunity presented itself, the 
 services being conducted a few times in a saw mill, on the river 
 bank, which has long since disappeared, and more frequently in 
 the old octagon school -house, once the pride of the town and 
 still permitted to stand as a relic of by-gone days. It is remem- 
 bered that Rev. William Annan, pastor of the Sewickley Church, 
 often held such services in these buildings. 
 
 In the year 1835 a few of the liberal minded Presbyterians 
 living in or near the village, prominent among whom were Hon. 
 George Plumer and his sons, Alexander and John C. Plumer, de- 
 termined to erect a house of worship. But being too weak finan- 
 cially to perform the work themselves, a proposition was made 
 to them by the Evangelical Lutherans to join them in this en- 
 terprise, the Lutheran denomination to hold a fourth interest, 
 and each to have a specific part of the time for the holding of 
 public worship. By mutual consent this partnership was dis- 
 solved in the year 1850, the Presbyterians purchasing from the 
 Lutherans, for the sum of ^650, their entire interest in the build- 
 ing and grounds. 
 
 It was now thought by many that the time had come to or- 
 ganize a church distinct and separate from the mother congrega- 
 tion. The town having taken to itself a new name was growing 
 in size and importance. Presbyterians were gathering in and 
 about it ; the distance to Sewickley was too great for many to at- 
 tend, and there were difficulties constantly arising in the prosecu- 
 tion of co-operative work. Accordingly, a memorial, numerous- 
 1}' signed by Presbyterians living in West Newton, was sent to 
 the Presbytery of Redstone, asking for the organization of a 
 church. 
 
 The following is an extract from the minutes of Presbytery, 
 viz. : "Sessions of the Presbytery of Redstone, West New- 
 ton, October 2d, 1850. The action expressed in the follow- 
 ing minutes was had, viz. : A memorial from We.st New- 
 ton and vicinity asking for the organization of a church in 
 
146 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 West Newton was presented and read. On motion, it was re- 
 solved, that the request of the memoriaHsts be granted and that 
 Messrs. R. Stevenson and J. R. Hughes be a committee to or- 
 ganize said church, on the 8th day of January, 185 1. At the 
 Sessions of the Presbytery in Connellsville, April 8th, 1851, the 
 following record was made, viz. : The committee appointed at 
 the last meeting to organize a church at West Newton, reported 
 that they had organized said church with four elders and seven- 
 ty-one members. This report was adopted and the conduct of 
 the committee approved." 
 
 The names of the "four elders" referred to in the above re- 
 port are William Brookens, Francis McConaughey, M. P. Smith 
 and Thomas Robertson. The first trustees of the church were 
 Geo. Plumer, David Markle and Nimrod Gregg, and the first 
 treasurer was M. P. Smith. 
 
 Rev. Watson Hughes had been the pastor of the mother 
 church before the separation, but having resigned his former 
 charge he now became pastor of the new organization and la- 
 bored successfully and happily in that position until the spring 
 of 1855, at which time he resigned his office and removed from 
 our bounds. 
 
 In the autumn of the same year the congregation called the 
 Rev. Daniel Williams, who served the church until the spring of 
 1857. 
 
 The next fall a unanimous call was made out for the pastoral 
 services of the Rev. A. O. Patterson, D. D., who many years be- 
 fore had served, with great acceptability, the Sewickley Church. 
 The call was accepted and a most happy pastoral relation con- 
 tinued until April, 1863. After the resignation of Dr. Patterson 
 the pulpit was vacant for more than a year. 
 
 In the autumn of 1864, Rev. O. H. Miller became pastor 
 and served the church until the fall of 1869. 
 
 In the spring of 1870, Rev. Henry Fulton was installed 
 pastor, discharging the duties of his office until June, 1874. 
 During the pastorate of Mr. Fulton the congregation built a sub- 
 .stantial frame parsonage, containing seven rooms, which is still 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 47 
 
 held for the use of the pastor. The cost of this property was 
 $2,500. 
 
 On the 1st day of November, 1874, the present pastor, Rev. 
 J. C. Meloy, began his labors. Soon after the installation of Mr. 
 Meloy, steps were taken for the erection of a new house of wor- 
 ship. A more desirable location was secured on Main street; 
 various subscriptions were taken and the old building sold. The 
 present Gothic brick house was erected, and on the 12th day of 
 May, 1879, was dedicated, free of debt. The entire cost of the 
 building and grounds was about $22,000. It has a seating ca- 
 pacity of about 450; has a delightful auditorium and basement, 
 and is justly considered an ornament to the town. The remem- 
 brance of our struggles, our hopes and fears, during the erection 
 of this church — a time of financial trouble in the country — lin- 
 gers in the memory of our people. The Building Committee 
 were Geo. Plumer, chairman, J. Q. Robinson, M. D., H. D. 
 Smith, John Markle and Andrew Robertson. The congregation 
 is largely indebted to this committee, especially to its chairman 
 for the beautiful building we now occupy. 
 
 A complete list of Ruling Elders who have served the con- 
 gregation are the following, viz. : William Brookens, Francis 
 McConaughey, M. P. Smith, Thomas Robertson, Robert Guffey, 
 J. C. Plumer, Paul Hough, H. D. Smith, John McKenery, R. W. 
 Hunter, William Plumer, Alexander Rankin, R. D. Humes and 
 David A. Hunter. 
 
 The following are our Board of Trustees, viz. : Geo. Plu- 
 mer, F. V. Jeffries, Robt. Taylor, A. N. Franklin and Benjamin 
 Sampson. 
 
 It would prolong our history too much to speak of the faith- 
 ful services performed by many of our members, not only in the 
 eldership, but also among those who have occupied humbler 
 places. We have from the beginning of our organization en- 
 joyed uninterrupted peace among ourselves, together with a good 
 degree of prosperity, both temporal and spiritual. 
 
 The Session reported to the last meeting of Presbytery the 
 following statistics for the year ending, April ist, 1887, viz. : El- 
 ders, six; Deacons, none; added on examination, four; certificate. 
 
148 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 eighteen; total, 205 ; Sabbath School membership, 150; adults 
 baptized, two; infants baptized, five; contributions to Home Mis- 
 sions, $129; Foreign Missions, $i6g; Education, $22; Publica- 
 tion, $20; Church Erection, $iy; Relief Fund, $1^', Freedmen, 
 $i6g; Sustentation, ;^io; Aid for Colleges, ;^io; General Assem- 
 bly, $17. SSl Congregational, ;$2,03i ; Miscellaneous, $5. 
 
 Our Sabbath School, although small (150), is a very pleas- 
 ant one. We have a good Library and faithful officers and teach- 
 ers. We have also an interesting prayer meeting, which is held 
 every Wednesday evening in the basement. For what God has 
 done for us in His Providence and by His grace, we trust we are 
 truly thankful. As we approach our thirty-seventh mile-stone, 
 we desire to erect our Ebenezer, saying : "Hitherto hath the 
 Lord helped us." 
 
 PLEASANT UNITY. 
 
 BY REV. ROBERT F. SMITH. 
 
 It was in the year 1831 the good people of Pleasant Unity 
 built a neat brick church almost opposite the present house of 
 worship. The old house stood for about fifty years, when it was 
 taken down and much of the old material used in the new build- 
 ing. The church was a preaching point only and was supplied 
 principally by the pastors of the Mt. Pleasant church. All the 
 Presbyterians in and about Pleasant Unity were members of the 
 Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian Church. It was a matter of convenience 
 to have preaching occasionally in their midst. 
 
 For several years after the church was built Rev. Andrew O. 
 Patterson, the second pastor of Mt. Pleasant church, (the first was 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 49 
 
 Dr. Power), preached occasionally for the people of Pleasant Uni- 
 ty. Dr. Patterson served the Mt. Pleasant church fourteen years, 
 resigning in 1834. He was succeeded by Rev. Samuel Mont- 
 gomery whose pastorate covered ten years, from 1835 to 1845. 
 He, like his predecessor, preached occasionally in the brick church 
 at Pleasant Unity. A few years after the division into Old and 
 New School, Mr. Montgomery, with about two-thirds of his peo- 
 ple, united with the New School branch. The Old School side 
 called a pastor and both parties used the same houses of worship, 
 occupying them on alternate days. 
 
 The details of the history of this period belong properly to 
 the records of Mt. Pleasant church and will be given in its history. 
 Pleasant Unity Church was organized in 1854 and her history 
 properly begins from that date. Previous to that time it was, as 
 has been stated, a preaching point only, within the boundaries of 
 Mt. Pleasant church. Before the division we have seen that Rev. 
 A. O. Patterson and his successor. Rev. Mr. Montgomery, preach- 
 ed frequently on this side. The Old School party never organ- 
 ized a church in Pleasant Unity. After the division and up until 
 the reunion in 1869 the Old and New School pastors of Mt. 
 Pleasant church preached regularly in Pleasant Unity, using the 
 church on alternate days. It will only be necessary to name 
 these pastors in the order of their succession. On the Old School 
 side there were Revs. Brownson, McLean, Barron and Barnett. 
 The New School pastors of Mt. Pleasant church up to the time 
 of the organization of the Pleasant Unity church, were Revs, 
 Montgomery and Porter. Rev. Mr. Porter's successor was Rev. 
 James Cochran. He assisted in organizing a New School Pres- 
 byterian Church at Pleasant Unity and as the new church was 
 attached to Mt. Pleasant church under one pastor. Rev. James 
 Cochran thus became the first pastor of Pleasant Unity Presby- 
 terian Church. 
 
 The following is the first record of the '"Minutes of the Pres- 
 byterian Church of Pleasant Unity:" 
 
 PLEAS.A.NT Unity, March 25th, 1854. 
 
 The Rev. S. M. Sparks and Rev. James Cochran, a committee 
 appointed by the Presbytery of Pittsburgh to organize a church 
 
150 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 in Pleasant Unity, met according to appointment and did organ- 
 ize a Presbyterian Church according to the form laid down in our 
 standards. After the organization, Mr. George Chambers and 
 Mr. James Jamison were elected and installed elders of the church. 
 Immediately after the organization Session met and was opened 
 w^ith prayer by Moderator. Members present. Rev. James Coch- 
 ran and George Chambers ; absent, Mr. James Jamison. Mr. 
 George Love and Mrs. Momeyer appeared before Session and, 
 after a satisfactory examination as to their Christian experience 
 and knowledge of the Scriptures, they were received as members 
 of the church. Closed with prayer. 
 
 Jaimes Cochran, Clerk. 
 
 Unfortunately a number of pages are lost out of the first Ses- 
 sional Record Book. The original roll of members at the time 
 of organization cannot be found, but the number of members is 
 supposed to have been about one hundred. 
 
 Rev. James Cochran continued as pastor until i860, w^hen he 
 was succeeded by Rev. S. M. Sparks. Mr. Sparks was suc- 
 ceeded in 1869 by Rev. Henry Cooper, who was Stated Supply 
 for a short time. Early in April (probably the i ith), 1870, Rev. 
 John McMillan entered upon his labors as pastor of Mt. Pleasant 
 and Pleasant Unity churches. He was the first pastor after the 
 reunion of the Old and New School branches. He remained but 
 one year. In April, 1871, he resigned Pleasant Unity and accept- 
 ed a call for his entire time at Mt. Pleasant, preaching, however, 
 each Sabbath evening in the village of Mt. Pleasant. Pleasant 
 Unity was thus cut off from the mother church and became inde- 
 pendent. 
 
 In June, 1871, Rev. Augustus Cone became pastor of Pleas- 
 ant Unity church, giving it his whole time. He was succeeded 
 by Rev. A. F. Boyd, who was installed June 26th, 1874. During 
 his pastorate a good, substantial and commodious parsonage was 
 built, directly across the street from the old brick church. Mr. 
 Boyd resigned in the Spring of 1877 and was succeeded by Rev. 
 Robert White, who acted as Stated Supply until the winter of 
 '8o-'8i. Rev. A. A. Hough was installed as pastor October i ith, 
 1 88 1. He resigned this charge in the fall of 1886, and was re- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. I5I 
 
 leased by Presbytery on the 28th of September, 1886. Rev. 
 Robert F. Smith, the present pastor, succeeded Mr. Hough in the 
 spring of 1887. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Redstone, 
 May 26th, 1887, and installed as pastor of Pleasant Unity church 
 on the nth day of June, 1887. 
 
 The Session at the organization consisted of George Chambers 
 and James Jamison. From 1854 to 1870 the following persons 
 were added: James McGuire, Wm. Sloan, Ruling Elders in Unity 
 Presbyterian Church, were received on certificate, August 14th, 
 1854, and at the same time elected elders of Pleasant Unity 
 church. Henry Welty, an elder in Greensburg Presbyterian 
 Church, was elected and installed in Pleasant Unity church, June 
 15th, 1856; Thomas Latta ordained and installed in the year 
 [862; W. L. Chambers in the year 1867; since 1870, Joseph 
 Jamison, formerly an elder in Mt. Pleasant church, installed at 
 Pleasant Unity, March 5th, 1871 ; Andrew Giffen and S. J. Ham- 
 ill, M. D., ordained and installed September 9th, 1871 ; William 
 Giffen, formerly elder at Mt. Pleasant church, installed at 
 Pleasant Unity, September 21st, 1878; Henry Bair, ordained and 
 installed, September 2 1st, 1878. 
 
 George Chambers, one of the two original elders, was dis- 
 missed, January 7th, 1871, to unite with the Presbyterian Church 
 at Greensburg, Pa. Returning again to Pleasant Unity, he was 
 received by letter January 13th, 1878, but was never re-elected 
 as elder. James Jamison carried his letter to Greensburg and 
 after a few years returned to Pleasant Unity. He was not again 
 elected elder. Thomas Latta died, December 15th, 1865, aged 
 sixty-nine years. James McGuire died, December 27th, 1865, 
 aged seventy-two years. Wm. Sloan died a number of years ago ; 
 date of his death unknown. Henry Welty died at Pleasant 
 Unity in the year 1859. Henry Bair was dismissed, March 23d, 
 1879, to unite with the Presbyterian church at Holton, Kansas. 
 Doctor Hamill was dismissed at his own request, to unite with 
 some other Presbyterian church; now dead; date of death 
 not known. The Session as now constituted, consists of Rev. 
 Robert J. Smith, Moderator, W. L. Chambers, Joseph Jamison, 
 
152 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 Andrew Giffen and Wm. Giffen. (Mr. Giffen has since removed 
 to Ohio. 
 
 The old brick church having stood the storms of more than 
 fifty winters began to show signs of decay and it was considered 
 by many people as unsafe. It was proposed to build a new 
 church across the street and in 1883 the work was begun. The 
 new house of worship was dedicated in the fall of 1884. It is a 
 handsome building, beautifully located and Vk'ell planned. It is 
 brick, one-story, with lecture room at the rear. The audience 
 room of the main building is 50x38, and has a seating capacity 
 of 325. Seventy-five more can be accommodated in the aisles on 
 chairs. Windows, lecture-room also, of cathedral glass; floor 
 covered with a handsome carpet. The lecture room is 45x18. 
 The entire building cost, complete about ;^8,COO. 
 
 The total memibership of Pleasant Unity Church is 104. 
 Besides the public services on the Sabbath, there are Wednesday 
 evening prayer meeting, Sabbath School, Women's Foreign Mis- 
 sionaiy Society, Young People's Home Mission Circle and a 
 Band. 
 
 The Sabbath School has enrolled sixty-eight members. El- 
 der W. L. Chambers, is Superintendent, with five teachers. 
 
 The Women's Foreign Missionary Society has fourteen 
 members. The officers are, Mrs. Agnes Walters, president; Mrs. 
 Dr. J. H. Kelly, vice-president; Mrs. W. L. Chambers, recording 
 secretary; Mrs. Preston Chambers, treasurer; Mrs. R. F. Smith, 
 corresponding secretary. 
 
 The Young People's Home Mission Circle has thirty mem- 
 bers." Mrs. R. F. Smith, president; Mr. F. G. Kelley, vice-presi- 
 dent ; Miss Mattie Giffen, recording secretary; Miss Belle Gal- 
 lagher, corresponding secretary; Mr. Burk Walter, treasurer. 
 
 Fifteen children are enrolled in the Band ; name, "Trusting 
 Band." It is in charge of Mrs. Wm. Giffen. 
 
 Here ends the record of Pleasant Unity Church to the pres- 
 ent time. The Gospel has been preached here in this communi- 
 ty for more than a half a century. The history is a ver)^ plain 
 one, but much good has been done. In all these years "a great 
 number believed and turned unto the Lord." 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 53 
 
 MT. VERNON. 
 
 BY REV. C. P. CHEESEMAN. 
 
 Mt. Vernon church is situate about one mile from the Yough- 
 iogheny river, four miles from McKeesport, five miles from 
 Round Hill and eight miles from Long Run Church. In this 
 neighborhood lived a goodly number of Presbyterian families, 
 who found it difficult to attend church at any of the established 
 places of public worship, and under the leadership of Col. Wm. 
 Douglass, the Presbyterian element of this section united in a pe- 
 tition to Presbyteiy to organize a new church to be known as the 
 Mt. Vernon Presbyterian Church. This petition was presented 
 to Presbytery, at a meeting held at McKeesport, September 1 8th 
 and 19th, 1866. 
 
 Presbytery entertained the proposition and appointed a com- 
 mittee to look over the field, and if wise, in their judgment, to 
 organize a church. Accordingly, the committee, consisting of 
 Rev. O. H. Miller, Rev. Robt. F. Wilson and Elder John Mc- 
 Kenery met on the 28th day of January, 1867, and organized this 
 church with a membership of forty. 
 
 The church began its work under very favorable circum- 
 stances. The outlook from that standpoint was bright. The 
 people interested in the success of this church worked in har- 
 mony. Indeed, this has been the praiseworthy characteristic of 
 this church from the beginning of its history to the present time. 
 The necessity of erecting a church building was urged by the 
 friends of this new enterprise and was pushed rapidly to comple- 
 tion, and in the year 1868, the Mt. Vernon Church was dedi- 
 cated, free of debt, to the worship of the one only living and 
 true God. 
 
 The membership at present is about eighty. To any one 
 unacquainted with the facts, it may seem a little strange, that a 
 church with as good prospects in the beginning, has not made 
 more progress in twenty years. But when we remember the 
 changes incident to twenty years and particularly of this com- 
 munity, we see in this church much good accomplished. About 
 this time, or shortly after the establishment of the Mt. Vernon 
 
154 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 Church, a number of Presbyterian families moved into the bounds 
 of other congregations, and as is often the case, their places were 
 not taken in the church by those coming into the neighborhood, 
 and in the early history, the founder of the church, Mr. Doug- 
 lass, died. So, from causes over which man has not control, the 
 little church was weakened, yet it kept on in the work of the 
 Lord, maintaining public worship quite regularly. We think it 
 worthy of mention, that for almost eighteen years, this church 
 was unable to employ a pastor and could not be united with any 
 other church, trusting entirely to supplies, and yet kept up a fair 
 report to Presbytery and grew a little in real strength. 
 
 Rev. A. Bronson, D. D., supplied this church for several 
 years. We have not a list of those who at different times preach- 
 ed to this people. Supplies were obtained, for the greater part, 
 from the Seminary in Allegheny, 
 
 Rev. J. D. Shanks was supply several months; also, Rev. 
 Mr. Hair, then pastor of the McKeesport Presbyterian Church. 
 
 In the spring of i88i, the present pastor, C. P. Cheeseman, 
 began his work among the people of Mt. Vernon, and as Stated 
 Supply, preached to them till July, 1885, when he was in- 
 stalled over this church as pastor, and thus, under one pastorate, 
 the Mt. Vernon and Long Run Churches were united. 
 
 The following is a list of the elders of the church who have 
 served from time to time : Messrs. Wm. Douglass, Philip Ho- 
 dill, Alex. Rankin, Jas. Love, Sam'l C. Rankin, Matthew Young, 
 Jno. M. Shaner, Samuel Culbert, Harvey Thompson and David 
 Rankin. 
 
 FAIRCHANCE. 
 
 BY REV. M. C. BAILEY, PH. D. 
 
 Fairchance was a preaching point for Presbyterian ministers 
 for thirty years before a church was organized. History does 
 not inform us just when Mr. Fairchild began to preach here, 
 making it an out-post of the Tent congregation. It is well 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. I 55 
 
 known that he preached both in pubhc and private houses before 
 a church building was erected. 
 
 In 1845 ^ meeting-house was built, chiefly through the lib- 
 erality of Mr. F. H. Oliphant, an elder of the Tent Church. In 
 the absence of Mr. Oliphant, Col. Jas. Robinson superintended 
 the entire work. Dr. Fairchild continued to preach here till the 
 event of his death in June, 1864. During all these years and un- 
 til the organization of the church, Fairchance was treated as an 
 outpost of the Tent, sharing in the experiences of that church. 
 Its pastors and supplies were the pastors and supplies of this 
 point. 
 
 After the death of Dr. Fairchild, the Rev. J. C. Hench be- 
 came the pastor of the Tent, being installed, November 6th, 
 1866. Another fruit of Mr. Oliphant's liberality, was the gift of 
 a house and lot to Mr. Hench, for a parsonage. This property 
 stands midway between the cross-roads, on the way commonly 
 traveled between the two churches. The pastoral relation with 
 Mr. Hench was dissolved in April, 1869. About this time the 
 Tent was supplied one-half of the time by Rev. Wycoff. 
 
 On May 3d, 1 871, an organization was granted to Fairchance 
 congregation. It was organized under the name of Fairchance 
 Presbyterian Church. The committee appointed by Redstone 
 Presbytery for this purpose were the Revs. W, W. Ralston and 
 Joel Stoneroad, and Elder J. K. Ewing. The first two members 
 of the committee were present. The church was organized with 
 eighteen members, the most of whom came from the Tent. The 
 following is a list of their names : 
 
 F. H. Oliphant, H. Humphreys, J. P. Carothers, Mary Dun- 
 can, Mrs. F. H. Oliphant, Mrs. H. Humphreys, Wm. Mason, 
 Mrs. Mary Mason, Mrs. Catharine Core, Mrs. A. L. Osborne, 
 Miss Dessa Woods, Miss Nannie Woods, Mrs. John Stirling, 
 Wm. Pastoris, Mrs. Mary Pastoris, Sallie Pastoris, Mrs. Elizabeth 
 Goldsboro and Julia Pastoris. 
 
 F. H. Oliphant, H. Humphreys and Wm. Pastoris were 
 elected and installed elders, and Mr. Oliphant, Esquire Hum- 
 phreys and Mr. J. P. Carothers were elected trustees. 
 
 For some time the church was served by supplies, among 
 
156 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 whom were Revs. Perkins, Martin and others. Dr. Martin was 
 Stated Supply in 1873. 
 
 In December, 1874, the Rev. D. B. Rogers was Stated Sup- 
 ply of Tent and Fairchance for a few months. In April, 1875, 
 he became the pastor of these churches; in 1877, Rev. Dickey; 
 in 1878, Rev. S. S. Bergen; in 1881, Rev. C. B. Wakefield. The 
 pastorates of all these brethren were brief 
 
 In May, 1882, the Rev. M. C. Bailey, a member of the Pres- 
 bytery of Carlisle, received a call to this church, in connection 
 with the churches of Tent and McClellandtown. The installa- 
 tion services were held in October, of the same year, but Mr. 
 Bailey began his work in the previous June, 
 
 In the beginning of the year 1881, a remarkable work was 
 begun by private members of the church, which resulted in the 
 addition of about seventy persons to the church. Some of this 
 number are valuable and faithful members of the church, but it is 
 a sad fact that three-fourths of them have either become wholly 
 indifferent or dishonor the profession they once made. 
 
 September 20th, 1882, J. P. Carothers, Thomas Hart, Henry 
 McEntire and John Stirling were elected elders. 
 
 In 1 88 1, a few ladies, with characteristic energy, formed a 
 Parsonage Association and set about to build. A lot was do- 
 nated by the Fairchance furnace company and a neat and com- 
 fortable house erected, which, in a very short time, was entirely 
 free from debt, owing to the energy and perseverance of these de- 
 voted women. The cost of the parsonage was ;^ 1,300. 
 
 This field must, from the nature of the case, require great pa- 
 tience. A handful of faithful and enterprising women must be 
 relied on to do the most important work of the church. 
 
 The church has from time to time suffered from the loss of 
 the men who occasionally rise up to be the leaders in its work. It 
 is a singular fact, that in the midst of these discouragements and 
 in spite of them, the Lord carries on his work, A thriving Sab- 
 bath School has always existed. The seed has been sown. It is 
 in most cases hidden from our view. But He, who declares that 
 no word shall return unto Him void, watches it and will in the 
 end use it for His glory. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 57 
 
 FAYETTE CITY. 
 
 Fayette City is a village of several hundred inhabitants, sit- 
 uated on the east side of the Monongahela river. This church, 
 which takes its name from the place, is one of our newer church- 
 es, having been organized in 1872. The idea of forming a church 
 in that place, originated with certain members of the Rehoboth 
 Presbyterian Church, who were living in that locality. They 
 were prompted to take this step, in view of certain overtures 
 made to them by the Little Redstone people, to join them in one 
 pastoral charge. There were difficulties in the way ; the mem- 
 bers of the church there belonged to Rehoboth, and the building 
 was held by the trustees of that congregation. These hindrances, 
 however, were quickly and generously removed by the Session 
 of the Rehoboth Church, who, without waiting to be asked, held 
 a meeting and resolved to throw no obstructions in the way of 
 the proposed organization, beyond the giving of an official no- 
 tice to the leaders in the movement, that the church property in 
 Fayette City, belonged to Rehoboth. 
 
 The church was formally organized about the ist of Novem- 
 ber, 1872, and Wm. Bank, M. Sloterbeck and C, V. Powers, were 
 installed as elders. Twenty-four of the original members were 
 received by letter from the Rehoboth Church. 
 
 Rev. R. R. Gailey, who was at that time pastor of Little 
 Redstone, was immediately installed over the new organization, 
 his time to be divided between the two congregations. After 
 two years, Mr. Gailey resigned his charge and removed to an- 
 other field of labor. 
 
 He was followed by Rev. C. C. B. Duncan, who remained in 
 the field only one year. 
 
 The next pastor was Rev. J. T. Crumrine, who served the 
 church for two years, at the end of which, he removed from the 
 Presbytery and took charge of another congregation. 
 
 Inasmuch as the Little Redstone Church, to which we natur- 
 ally look to join us in supporting a pastor, has not felt herself 
 prepared, since the removal of Mr. Crumrine, to call a pastor. 
 
158 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 this church has been compelled to depend on such supplies as 
 could be readily procured. 
 
 Revs. P. Baker, Wm. G. Nevin and Dr. S. F. Farmer have 
 supplied us, so that we have had preaching, on an average, every 
 two weeks. The church has not grown much since its organiza- 
 tion, as we only number at present about thirty members, but if 
 the town should grow, as it is believed it will, we have, at least, 
 the nucleus of a church, and are prepared to accept any advan- 
 tages which may be offered us. 
 
 SCOTTDALE. 
 
 Scottdale is a beautiful and very flourishing town on the 
 southern border of Westmoreland county. It is one of the 
 newer towns in this part of the State, having grown up largely, 
 as a result of the wonderful coke and iron industries by which it 
 is surrounded. Already it is one of the leading places in the 
 county, and it certainly is not a wild prediction, that the time is 
 not far distant, when it will be the leading place. Its importance 
 as a preaching point was very soon observed by the lamented 
 Dr. John McMillan, of the Mt. Pleasant Church, who supplied the 
 people there with preaching as he had opportunity, public wor- 
 ship being held in the school-house, or in the Reformed Church, 
 as it appeared to be most convenient. It was not long until the 
 feeling began to prevail that we ought to have an organization 
 here. A petition was prepared, numerously signed and forward- 
 ed to the Presbytery of Redstone, asking that the matter be 
 taken into consideration and, if, in the judgment of the brethren, 
 it ought to be done, to send a committee and effect an organiza- 
 tion, at as early a day as possible. The Presbytery granted this 
 petition at its April meeting and appointed Revs. John McMil- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 59 
 
 Ian, D. D., and T. S. Parke, with Ruling Elder Wm. Giffin, a 
 committee, to carry out its wishes in this regard. On the 13th 
 of May, 1874, the committee performed their work and Scott- 
 dale became one of the churches of Redstone Presbytery. 
 
 At the time of the organization, two gentlemen were elected 
 to serve as Ruling Eiders, viz. : Dr. A. J. Rogers and Mr. O. B. 
 Robertson ; the former declining to serve, Mr. Robertson was or- 
 dained and installed. 
 
 The original members who took part in the organization 
 were, Oliver B. Robertson, Mary A. Robertson, Pauline Parker, 
 John Klingensmith, Mary Klingensmith, Margaret Klingensmith, 
 Frances Klingensmith, J. B. Klingensmith, Anna E. Klingen- 
 smith, Henry D. Bole, Catharine Bole, Sarah E. Ault, Dr. A. J. 
 Rogers and Margaret Rogers. 
 
 The newly formed church now depended upon occasional 
 supplies for the pulpit until November, 1875, when Dr. McMil- 
 lan undertook to supply them statedly. He occupied the pulpit 
 until November of the following year, giving to the church one- 
 fourth of his time. 
 
 On the 1st of November, 1876, this church, for the first time, 
 enjoyed the services of a regularly installed pastor. Rev. J. H. 
 Stevenson, an able minister, in the prime of life and usefulness, 
 was installed over the united churches of Tyrone and Scottdale, 
 each church to enjoy one-half of his time. When this arrange- 
 ment began, Scottdale was the weaker church, not being able to 
 raise one-half the salary. It was not long, however, until it was 
 the heavier supporter, and became responsible for the larger part 
 of his salary. At the spring meeting of Presbytery, in the year 
 1883, Mr. Stevenson resigned and went to another field of labor. 
 His services had been greatly blessed to the church, which now 
 felt itself to be fully self-sustaining. 
 
 On the 3d of the following January, Rev. E. S. Robinson, 
 pastor of the Congruity Church, was called. He served the 
 church very acceptably for a period of two years, when he re- 
 signed to take charge of a larger and more influential church. 
 
 After a vacancy of one year. Rev. Z. B. Taylor was called 
 
l6o PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 and installed, assuming his pastoral duties in April, 1887, and 
 continuing on up to the present writing. 
 
 At the time of the organization of the church the Rotary- 
 System was adopted in the election of the eldership. The fol- 
 lowing is a list of the elders who hav^e served, viz. : O. B. Rob- 
 ertson, Dr. A. J. Rogers, John G. White, Thomas W. McCune, 
 John S. Loucks, Thomas W. Ault. Dr. J. C. Farrar, E. L. Robin- 
 son, John Robertson, Jonathan Merritt, Frank Ritchie and A. B. 
 Hosack. 
 
 Soon after the organization of the church, the congregation 
 began to feel their need of a house of worship, which they could 
 call their own. They had been occupying in turn, the school- 
 house, the Reformed Church and the Baptist Church, arrange- 
 ments which were not satisfactory to them. 
 
 In the great Centennial year, 1876, the present brick struc- 
 ture was erected, at a cost of ^4,500, and dedicated on the 22d of 
 April, 1887. It is a neat, comfortable house, but now scarcely 
 adequate to meet the wants of a growing congregation. 
 
 In the fourteen years of our church history, she has grown 
 from fourteen, to a membership of 150. 
 
 Our statistical report for the year ending, April, 1888, is as 
 follows, viz.: Elders, five; Deacons, two ; added on Examina- 
 tion, one; added on Certificate, ten; Members, 150; Infants Bap- 
 tized, six; Adults Baptized, one; Sabbath School Membership, 
 100; contributions to Home Missions, $17; Foreign Missions, 
 $ig; Education, $8; Sabbath School work, ^35; Church Erec- 
 tion, ^6; Relief, $45 ; Freedmen, 55; Sustentation, $5; Aid for 
 Colleges, $11; General Assembly, $iy; Congregational, $1,475. 
 
 BELLE VERNON.* 
 
 BV REV. P. BAKER. 
 
 The First Presbyterian Church of Belle Vernon, Pa., was 
 organized, December nth, 1873, by a committee appointed by 
 
 *Copied largely from a history of Belle Vernon Presbyterian Church, by Dr. John S. Van- 
 Voorhis, Belle Vernou, Pa. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. l6l 
 
 Redstone Presbytery, consisting of Rev. G. M. Hair, Rev. R. 
 Gailey and Elder Alex. Rankin. Dr. I C. Hazlett, R. J. Linton 
 and S. F. Jones were elected elders ; the two former were ordain- 
 ed and installed, Mr. Jones being at that time installed only, hav- 
 ing been a member of the Session of Rehoboth previously. 
 
 The following persons were received by certificate from Re- 
 hoboth Church, viz.: Mr. D. B.Johnston, Mrs. E. S. Van Voor- 
 his, James French, Dr. J. S. Van Voorhis, Sarah Johnston, L. M. 
 Speer, Fannie S. Speer, S. F. Jones, S. E. Jones, R. J. Linton, C. 
 S. Linton, Nancy Smock, Ellen McFall, Margaret Garrison, Har- 
 riet Patterson, Lizzie V. Cunningham, I. C. Hazlett, Samuel 
 Clark, Anna Clark, Maria E. Hughes, Jennie French, W. T. 
 Speer, Mary P. Speer, W. P. Mackey, Samuel McKean, Agnes 
 McAlpin, Mary Smock, Elizabeth Lucas, Nancy Sheets, Maggie 
 McFall, Jane Hopkins, Alvira M. Fromier, Mary S. Cook, Susan 
 C. Wise, James McAlpin, Jennie Jones, Sarah Barkman, Philip 
 Smock, Olive Barkman, Laviena Smock, W. McFall, Robert Mc- 
 Fall and Charlotte Hammitt. From other churches : W. F. Mor- 
 gan and wife, and Mary C. Aler — in all fifty-one. 
 
 It will be seen from the above that the original membership 
 very largely was received from Rehoboth congregation, of which 
 church this one had previously been a part. 
 
 Belle Vernon had been a preaching station for some years 
 before this date and a church building had been erected in 1869. 
 The lot was presented by L. M. Speer. The cost of the build- 
 ing was $2,000, apart from the spire, which Mr. Speer had con- 
 structed at his own expense, making the entire building worth 
 $2,500. Dr. J. S. Van Voorhis was chairman of the building 
 committee. The mason work was done by Thomas Haggerty. 
 R. C. Schmertz & Co. presented the glass for windows. The 
 funds for furnishing the church, amounting to $297.70, were 
 raised by Mary Speer, Lizzie Van Voorhis, Mrs. Margaret Kyle 
 and Mattie Miller. The bell was purchased out of the building 
 fund. The clock was presented by Mrs. Wm. Scott. The 
 church was dedicated, free of debt, December 19th, 1869, ser- 
 vices being conducted by Rev. L. Y. Graham, pastor, and Rev. 
 G. M. Hair. 
 
1 62 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 Rev. G. M. Hair, who was pastor of Rehoboth Church when 
 this church was organized, continued to preach for the new con- 
 gregation as he had done before its separation from the old con- 
 gregation, until June, 1874, when he resigned his charge. Belle 
 Vernon Church determined then to call a pastor of its own. 
 
 Rev. A. B. Lowes received a unanimous call soon after this 
 date. He was installed, October 28th, 1874, by a committee of 
 Presbytery, consisting of Revs. J. P. Fulton, J. M. Barnett and 
 Marcus Wishart. He continued to be pastor of this church un- 
 til September, 1882, when he was released at his own request. 
 Under the pastorate of Rev. Mr. Lowes, the church enjoyed a 
 good degree of prosperity, sixty-four new members being added 
 to the original number. Especially did he succeed in effecting a 
 thorough organization for church work, which continues to this 
 day, and also in developing a spirit of benevolence, for which 
 this church became noted. There were discouragements, how- 
 ever, which arose from a financial crash in the village, resulting 
 in the removal of a number of the best supporters of the con- 
 gregation. Besides being a faithful pastor, Mr. Lov>'es was a 
 most earnest advocate of temperance and took a most active and 
 courageous part in efforts to abate this evil. 
 
 The congregation, after the release of Mr. Lowes, were sup- 
 plied until January loth, of the following year, 1883, when Rev. 
 P. Baker was unanimously called to the charge and was installed, 
 May 3d, 1883, and still continues to be pastor up to this date, 
 during which time sixty-three additions have been made to the 
 church, principally on examination. Rev. P. Baker was born at 
 Independence, Pa., October 3d, 1847; ^^^s received into the 
 church under the ministry of Rev. John Stockton, at Cross Creek, 
 Pa.; graduated at Princeton College, 1872, and at the Western 
 Theological Seminary, Allegheny, 1875. He was called while 
 in his senior year at the Seminary to be pastor of the charge of 
 Boiling Spring, Crooked Creek and Appleby Manor Churches 
 in Kittanning Presbytery; was released from Boiling Spring, 
 June, 1878, that he might accept a call from the other two 
 churches for full time, with which churches he remained until 
 called to Belle Vernon. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 63 
 
 The only changes in the Session up to this date (1887) are 
 the following, viz.: In December, 1881, Wm. F. Morgan was 
 added to it and in 1886, Dr. I. C. Hazlett was released, to unite 
 with the church at Uniontown, whither he had removed. 
 
 The church building has been preserved in good repair by 
 a vigilant Board of Trustees, consisting at the present of W. P. 
 Mackey, J. E. Null, S. M. Graham. L. R. Boyle and Sam'l Mc- 
 Kean. 
 
 In June, of this year, the spire was badly damaged by light- 
 ning. It was removed and a suitable cupola erected in its stead. 
 
 These are the principal items of our church hi.story. Here 
 may the Gospel be preached as long as the sun and moon endure! 
 
 MT. PLEASANT REUNION. 
 
 BY REV. S. E. ELLIOTT. 
 
 The Reunion Presbyterian Church of Mt. Pleasant, Pa., is 
 the offspring of the Mt. Pleasant (commonly called Middle) Pres- 
 byterian Church. It was organized by the Presbytery of Red- 
 stone, then in session in the town of Mt. Pleasant, April 25th, 
 1873, at the request of one hundred and seven persons, all mem- 
 bers of the church of Mt. Pleasant. 
 
 At the time of the organization a new church edifice, valued 
 at ;^2i,ooo, already existed. While this church was built by the 
 Mt. Plea.sant congregation, nearly all the subscriptions came from 
 those who joined the new organization. Both congregations re- 
 mained in one charge, under the pastorate of Dr. John McMillan, 
 until October 1st, 1873. After this date. Dr. McMillan gave the 
 whole of his time to the Reunion Church at a salary of $1,500 — 
 the amount which he had received from both congregations. 
 The pastoral relationship of Dr. McMillan continued until Janu- 
 ary 14th, 1879. 
 
164 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 At the time of the organization, Messrs. William Borland 
 Neel, William Giffen and John Dickie McCaleb were installed as 
 elders, and Alexander Hamilton Strickler and Absalom Schali 
 as deacons. Having served in the same offices in the Middle 
 Church, they were not ordained. 
 
 The following is a list of the elders and deacons from the 
 time of the organization to the present: 
 
 ELDERS. 
 
 William Borland Neel, April 25th, 1873; William Giffen, 
 April 25th, 1873, to April ist, 1885 ; John Dickie McCaleb, April 
 25th, 1873; Jas. Shields,' April 9th, 1875, to July 31st, 1876; 
 Alex. H. Strickler, April 9th, 1875, to January 23d, 1887; John 
 Calvin Hunter, M. D., October 1st, 1875, to June 8th, 1876; John 
 Cunningham, October 1st, 1875, to April 14th, 1877; Albert 
 Shupe, December 23d, 1877, to April 3d, 1880; David Wilson 
 Schryock, December 8th, 1878, to July 3d, 1880; John Andrew 
 Stevenson, December 8th, 1878; Florence Labanah Marsh, M. D., 
 January 23d, 1887; Jacob Smith Lobengier, January 23d, 1887; 
 Jesse Hunter, January 23d, 1887. 
 
 DEACONS. 
 
 Alex. H. Strickler, April 25th, 1873, to April 9th, 1875; 
 Absalom Schali, April 25th, 1873, to February, 1874. 
 
 The rotary system of eldership was adopted September 25th, 
 1885, and abandoned January, 1887. The office of deacon was 
 abandoned after a short period. An effort was afterwards made 
 to return to it, but the effort was not successful. 
 
 The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was organized 
 April 1st, 1874. Up to that time the ladies of both congregations 
 worked in one organization. This society has contributed since 
 its organization, ^1,142.78, or about $gs a year. Of this amount 
 $206.85 has been contributed by the children's band, now called 
 the Layah Band. This band works under the direction of the 
 Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. 
 
 The congregation received a charter, February iith, 1874. 
 
 The church property was threatened by fire, May 29th, 1876. 
 It was saved by a sudden change in the direction of the wind. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 65 
 
 The deliverance was regarded by the congregation as providen- 
 tial. The congregational records, however, being in the house 
 of Mr. John D. McCaleb, were destroyed. 
 
 In January, 1879, ^^^ trustees reported that a debt of ^2,200 
 which had existed for a considerable time, had been provided for. 
 
 The pastoral relationship of Dr. McMillan was dissolved, 
 Januar}' 14th, 1879. He was called again by this congregation 
 in October following, but did not accept. Dr. McMillan was 
 succeeded by Rev. S. L. Finney, who was called, Februaiy 23d, 
 1880, at a salary of ,$1,200, and remained until October 3d, 1882. 
 During his pastorate the present parsonage, valued at ^5,000, 
 was built. The congregation was without a regular pastor from 
 October 3d, 1882, until July 2d, 1883. Rev. John M. Jenkins 
 was called, July 2d, 1883, at a salary of $1,000 and free use of 
 the parsonage. He remained until April, 1885. 
 
 The McMillan Home Missionary Society was organized in 
 April, 1884. This society took its name from a former pastor of 
 the church. This society has only given about thirty dollars a 
 year thus far to the cause of Home Missions. Their efforts have 
 been directed chiefly towards liquidating a church debt. In or- 
 dinary circumstances this course would not be justifiable, but the 
 present case seems to be an exception. 
 
 Mr. Jenkins was succeeded by Rev. Samuel E. Elliott, the 
 present pastor. Rev. S. E. Elliott was called in January, 1886; 
 salary $900 and free parsonage. The congregation had been 
 without a pastor for about eight months. 
 
 In January, 1887, the trustees reported that the debt of 
 $6,000 had been provided for. This debt had been contracted in 
 building the parsonage. 
 
 A Sunday-school has been kept up in this church ever since 
 its organization. The average attendance now is about seventy- 
 five. The average attendance from the beginning" of the organi- 
 zation has varied from seventy-five to one hundred. Our teach- 
 ers and officers are well equipped and do faithful work. 
 
 I add a copy of the annual statistical reports. In this may 
 be seen the work and the progress of the congregation from the 
 beginning. 
 
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PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 6/ 
 
 DUNBAR. 
 
 BY ELDER THOMAS W. WATT. 
 
 Wednesday, April 29th, 1874. 
 The Presbyterian Church of Dunbar was organized on the 
 presentation to Presbj'tery of the following petition by members 
 of the Presbyterian church of Connellsville, Pa., residing in and 
 about Dunbar. 
 
 To the Rev^erend Moderator and Members of the Presbytery of 
 
 Redstone : 
 
 Dear Brethren — At a meeting of the Session of the Pres- 
 byterian church of Connellsville, held, April 6th, 1874, the fol- 
 lowing paper was unanimously adopted : 
 
 Inasmuch as the members of the Connellsville Church, re- 
 siding in and about Dunbar, are cut off from attending church at 
 Connellsville, and the growth of the population of Dunbar de- 
 mands an increase of the ordinances. 
 
 Resolved — That we recommend to the members of this 
 church in and about Dunbar, to apply to Presbytery at its next 
 meeting to organize them into a separate church, with the officers 
 residing in their midst, to be known as the Presbyterian Church 
 of Dunbar. 
 
 Believing that the time has come for such an organization 
 and that we are following the leadings of Divine Providence, we, 
 whose names follow, ask to beset off as the church above named, 
 and that Joseph Paul, John Taylor, James L. Paul and Thomas 
 W. Watt be the elders of the new organization, according to the 
 above resolution. 
 
 John Taylor. Thos. W. Watt. 
 
 Mary E. McDowell. Sarah Watt. 
 
 Ray Taylor. Jennie W^att. 
 
 John M. Taylor. Lavinia W^att. 
 
 Margaret S. Byers. John Herron. 
 
 James Henderson. May Herron. 
 
 Geo. W. Porter. Ella Herron. 
 
i68 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 Rebecca Speers. 
 M. Ella Speers. 
 Maria L. Byers. 
 M. Elizabeth Byers. 
 Jas. L. Paull. 
 Joseph Paull. 
 Jos. R. Paull. 
 Sarah A. Williams. 
 David Williams, Jr. 
 Rosy Bird. 
 Jas. W. Matthews. 
 Eleanor Reiner. 
 Sarah Reiner. 
 Mrs. John Taylor. 
 Jennie Taylor. 
 Isaac Taylor. 
 John H. Byers. 
 Sarah Humbert. 
 James Thompson. 
 Martha S. Porter. 
 Sarah J. Speers. 
 David A. Byers. 
 Sue B. Byers. 
 Jas. T. Shepler. 
 Lizzie A. Paull. 
 Mrs. Lizzie L. Paull. 
 Mrs. David Williams. 
 M. J. Williams. 
 Mary Bird. 
 Jane Miller. 
 Jacob Reiner. 
 May Reiner. 
 Samuel Work. 
 Jane W. Work. 
 Martha Watkin. 
 
 Robert Rankin. 
 Alex. Porter. 
 Sarah M. Porter. 
 M. A. Porter 
 May J. Porter. 
 Maggie M. Porter. 
 David Harper. 
 Sarah A. Harper. 
 May A. Harper. 
 J. R. McDowell. 
 Sarah A. McDowell. 
 May C. Piles. 
 Mary A. Walker. 
 May M. Stauffer. 
 William Bov/den. 
 Margaret Bowden. 
 Mary Gilpin. 
 Jennie Gilpin. 
 Eliza Porter. 
 Sarah Wills. 
 Eliza J. Duncan. 
 May E. McDowell. 
 Thos. Reiner. 
 John W. Fairchild. 
 William Boal. 
 Alex. Wishart. 
 Mrs. A. Wishart. 
 Alex. McConnell. 
 Jane McConnell. 
 Isabella Scott. 
 Margaret Russell. 
 M. Emily McDowell. 
 J. V. Stauffer. 
 Sadie Harmon. 
 Jas. A. Fairchild. 
 Amzi D. Harmon. 
 
 After hearing the commissioner, James L. Paull, and some 
 remarks by the Presbytery, the request was granted, the name 
 of Dunbar Church was enrolled, and Joseph Paull, elder from 
 Dunbar, was admitted to a seat in Presbytery. 
 
 At the time of the completion of the Fayette county rail- 
 road, there were only three Presbyterian families in Dunbar, viz. : 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 69 
 
 Joseph Paull, James R. McDowell and Thomas W. Watt. They 
 were all members of the church in Connellsville. After a time 
 they applied to the Railroad Company for the privilege of run- 
 ning a hand car on Sabbath. This was granted and proved to be 
 a very convenient way of getting to chnrch. This was kept up 
 until March, 1870. 
 
 During the winter of 1869— '70, God's Spirit was so abun- 
 dantly poured out, at a meeting held in a school-house in Dun- 
 bar, that more than forty were added to the church. This addi- 
 tion made it necessary to have a church train, which was started, 
 March, 1870, the people agreeing to pay the company $7.50 per 
 day. This agreement was continued until the summer of 1873, 
 when full fare was demanded. The people refused to pay this 
 amount and accordingly in September, 1873, the train was dis- 
 continued. 
 
 About this time steps were taken to erect a new church 
 at Dunbar. Funds were secured and a frame building 45x60 
 feet and costing $5,500, was erected and dedicated to the Lord, 
 on the 9th of November, 1 874. 
 
 From September, 1873, until the following June, the Rev. 
 John M. Barnett, at that time pastor of the Connellsville Church, 
 preached for us every Sabbath afternoon at three o'clock. After 
 that time the congregation depended upon supplies. 
 
 The Rev. G. M. Potter, who had preached for us a number 
 of times to our entire satisfaction, was called, but after giving the 
 cgngregation to understand that he would accept, for reasons 
 best known to himself, declined to come. 
 
 Soon after this, the congregation made out a call for Rev. R. 
 T. Price, which he accepted, moved in among us and began his 
 labors on the first Sabbath of December, 1874. Mr. Price un- 
 dertook the pastoral oversight of the congregation under the 
 most favorable circumstances, and the organization and church 
 building were new. The membership, eighty-four in number, 
 were wide awake to the interest of the church. This proved to 
 
170 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 be a happy relation, pastor and people working together in per- 
 fect harmony. Before the spring meeting of Presbytery, twenty- 
 four new members were added to our church, increasing our roll 
 of members to 109. The Sabbath School also seemed to take 
 on new life at this time. Before the organization of the church 
 it was conducted as a union school, but from this time on it was 
 strictly Presbyterian. At the spring meeting of Presbytery it re- 
 ported 150 members. 
 
 The church enjoyed a steady and vigorous growth all 
 through the following year. Forty were added to our member- 
 ship, thirty-one on examination and nine by letter, increasing our 
 roll to 139. During this time, however, we met with our first 
 discouragement. Ten persons had disappeared from among us, 
 either by death or removal, and our Sabbath School had fallen 
 off from 150 to 100 members. The next year, 1876—77, the 
 church held her own, with the slight increase of six members, 
 contributing ;^ioo to the Board of Foreign Missions and erecting 
 a parsonage costing ;^2,400. There was nothing worthy of note 
 the following year. 
 
 In our narrative, sent to the Presbytery, the pastor says : 
 "The attendance is good, and the attention paid to the Gospel, as 
 it has been preached, very good." At this time there seemed to 
 be a general awakening of the people. Many prayers were 
 offered for the outpouring of the Spirit and a closer walk with 
 God. The year i88o-'8i, was marked by few conv^ersions, but 
 there was a deep interest taken in the cause of temperance, and 
 it is believed much good was done in this direction. We lost a 
 number of members this year, some by removal and many by 
 death ; indeed, our losses by death were greater than at any other 
 time in our history. During the two remaining years of Mr. 
 Price's pastorate, the church enjoyed a slow but steady growth. 
 Progress was made in the cause of temperance, and largely 
 through the efforts of the church, saloons were banished from 
 our village. In June, 1883, Mr. Price resigned and moved to 
 another field of labor. This closed the first pastorate of the 
 Dunbar Church. Mr. Price was with us eight years and six 
 months. In this time we received 155 new members ; lost by 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. I7I 
 
 death and removal, eighty-five ; leaving us a membership of 147. 
 Mr. Price left with the general good will of the entire congrega- 
 tion and community. 
 
 The church was now without a pastor for a period of six 
 months, but we were at no time without public worship. When 
 we failed to secure a supply, some member of the Session or con- 
 gregation led in a brief service. 
 
 In December, 1883, a unanimous call was extended to Rev. 
 D. B. Rogers. He accepted and began his labors at once. The 
 following winter we gained a few members by profession and lost 
 a number by removals, so that we did but little more than hold 
 our own. The second year of Mr. Rogers' pastorate the church 
 was blessed by a gracious outpouring of the Spirit. Twenty-two 
 were added on examination and six by letter. While Mr. Rogers 
 was with us the growth of the church was slow but steady. 
 There was a marked improvement in the Sabbath School, which 
 numbered 240, with little variation during the entire period. In 
 July, 1886, Mr, Rogers was, at his own request, released by the 
 Presbytery, to enter another field of labor. We had received 
 during his pastorate fifty-two new members, but on account of 
 deaths and removals we were able to report only a membership of 
 151. The relation was dissolved at a called meeting of Presby- 
 tery and the church left again without a pastor. 
 
 A vacancy of six months brought to us many supplies and 
 numerous candidates. 
 
 The Rev. R. R. Marquis supplied the pulpit for three 
 months with a view to the pastorate, but on account of ill health 
 he was compelled to give up preaching, to the great regret of the 
 entire church. People outside the church had formed quite an at- 
 tachment for him and his family and expressed themselves as 
 very sorrowful that he could not remain with us. 
 
 The Session next invited the Rev. W. G. Stewart, of Roches- 
 ter, Pa., to supply us for a Sabbath or two. The people were 
 greatly pleased by him. A most hearty and entirely unanimous 
 call was made out and by him accepted. He entered his new 
 field of labor, September ist, 1887, and to-day, we are a happy 
 and contented people. 
 
172 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 DAWSON. 
 
 BY REV. JOSEPH L. HUNTER. 
 
 This church was first organized on the 3d of July, 1874. 
 The membership at that time was twenty-four, all of whom had 
 come by letter from the Church of Tyrone. 
 
 The original elders were, Solomon Baker, Wm. Lint and 
 Jonathan Merritt. 
 
 Rev. Thos. S. Parke was the first pastor, but after serving 
 the church for less than one year, he left on the 28th of May, 
 1875. 
 
 xA.bout the same time Elder Baker removed to Tyrone and 
 soon after, T. R. DeYarman was elected to fill his place. 
 
 On the 22d of June, 1877, a call was made out for the Rev. 
 J. H. Stevenson, then pastor of Tyrone, the congregation asking 
 only a part of his time. Mr. Stevenson accepted and after serv- 
 ing the church for a time, the organization was dissolved and the 
 members dismissed to Tyrone. This action of Presbytery, as it 
 seems to us now, was a mistake. Some judicious efforts in its 
 behalf, might have made the Church of Dawson, if not self-sus- 
 taining, at least partially so. The church has always had the 
 support of the best and most influential citizens, and we believe 
 it will, in time, become a great power in this community. 
 
 On the 28th of October, 1884, the church was reorganized, 
 with twenty members. Mr. John K. McDonald was ordained as 
 Ruling Elder and, with T. R. DeYarman, installed. 
 
 From June, 1885, to May, 1888, Rev. N. G. White, acted as 
 Stated Supply. 
 
 Rev. Joseph L. Hunter was installed pastor in May, 1888. 
 Soon after Mr. Hunter became pastor. Dr. Wm. A. Shoema- 
 ker was ordained and installed in the eldership. 
 
 The Session, at present, are Rev. Jos. L. Hunter, Moderator, 
 with Elders J. K. McDonald and Dr. Wm. A. Shoemaker. The 
 church has had six elders. We have now a membership of twen- 
 ty-one. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE, 1 73 
 
 LEISENRING. 
 
 BY REV. H. C. MORLEDGE. 
 
 In the autumn of 1881, the Connellsville Coke and Iron 
 Company began manufacturing coke at this place. This brought 
 in a class of miners and laborers who, as a rule, had but little in- 
 terest in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. A few devout Christians 
 among the official members of the company, saw the importance 
 of immediate active Christian work for the benefit of these 
 classes. 
 
 In December, of the same year, they organized a Sabbath 
 School in the school-house just then completed. They also 
 made application to the company for means to carry on Christian 
 work, and received in turn a monthly appropriation, to which 
 they added a sufficient amount to put the Sabbath School on a 
 good working basis, and hold one preaching service every Sab- 
 bath. For a time they had the ministers of various denomina- 
 tions in this vicinity to preach for them. This plan, not proving 
 practicable, they made application to the Seminary for a young 
 man to take charge of the work. 
 
 In December, 1883, Rev. A. J. Herries, then in his senior 
 year at the Seminary, took charge of the work. Prior to this 
 time, a Sabbath School had been organized at Shaft No. 2, known 
 as West Leisenring, and preaching services were also held at that 
 point; so, when Mr. Herries began his work, he found at the two 
 points a population of near 3,000 souls. He continued to sup- 
 ply them with preaching with the help of other young men from 
 the Seminary, until his graduation, April, 1884. He then settled 
 among the people and continued the work as a missionary on a 
 mission-field, without any church organization, up till the follow- 
 ing winter. 
 
 At a called meeting of Redstone Presbytery, held in the 
 school-house at this place, January 20th, 1885, the church was 
 formally organized to be known as "Leisenring Presbyterian 
 
174 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 Church," the charter membership numbering fifteen, and elders 
 two — Jno. A. Esser and Jas. Eaton. 
 
 Rev. A. J. Herries was then duly appointed by the Presby- 
 tery as Stated Supply of the church till the next regular meeting. 
 In May, 1885, Mr. Herries was installed pastor of the church, 
 and in September of the same year, Presbytery, at his own re- 
 quest, dissolved the relationship. 
 
 The church again received supplies from the Seminary till 
 the following spring, when Rev. H. C. Morledge was called to 
 the pastorate. He accepted, was installed and began his work 
 as pastor in June, 1886. 
 
 The church has gradually increased in membership since its 
 organization till the present. It now numbers seventy-nine. 
 Last winter the subject of church edifices was agitated. Two 
 plans were selected, subscriptions solicited, and the work on two 
 churches costing, in toto, ^8,000, begun. One of these is now 
 completed and will be dedicated in a few weeks. The other will 
 be dedicated, we hope, by next Christmas (1888.) 
 
 WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY 
 SOCIETY. 
 
 BY MRS. ANNA M. BAILIE. 
 
 Of the pioneer Woman's Missionary Societies in our midst, 
 Connellsville, Mt. Pleasant, New Providence and Pleasant Unity 
 date their beginning in 1872. Mt. Pleasant Reunion and New 
 Salem were reorganized in 1874. In February, 1875, Miss S. 
 Loring, formerly of Syria, then employed by the Woman's For- 
 eign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church to travel 
 among the churches, visited our Presbytery, and the societies of 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1/5 
 
 Brownsville, Dunbar, McKeesport and Uniontown were formed 
 at that time. In pursuance of calls given by the parent society 
 and many of our pastors, a meeting of ladies was held in connec- 
 tion with the meeting of Redstone Presbytery, June 15th, 1875, 
 at Connellsville, and the Woman's Missionary Society was then 
 and there organized. Of this meeting Mrs. J. M. Barnett, of 
 Connellsville, was chairman; Mrs. J. Cunningham, of Mt. Pleas- 
 ant, secretary. The officers of the society then chosen were, 
 president, Mrs. John McMillan, of Mt. Pleasant Reunion; record- 
 ing secretary, Miss M. B. Campbell, of Uniontown ; correspond- 
 ing secretary, Miss L. G. Neel, Mt. Pleasant Reunion; treasurer. 
 Miss Lizzie Taylor, of Connellsville. The parent society was 
 represented by Mrs. S. M. Henderson, of Wilkinsburg, who was 
 very a6live in giving every assistance and encouragement in her 
 power. In the evening Presbytery held a special joint session 
 with the ladies, devoted to the interest of Foreign Missions, and 
 the custom was kept up during the time in which the meetings 
 were held, at the same time and place. Two more meetings were 
 held in this year for the purpose of perfecting the organization 
 and laying out definite plans of work: one of these on July i6th 
 at Uniontown, the other, October 6th, at the Mt. Pleasant Reunion 
 Church, Presbytery being assembled at the same time in Mt. 
 Pleasant church. At the July meeting each society was assigned 
 some two or three neighboring churches in which they were to 
 endeavor to secure organizations. In some cases this was done; 
 in others the pastors called together their ladies and formed them 
 into societies so that at the next meeting, held in McKeesport, 
 October 26th, 1876, the additional organizations of Belle Vernon, 
 Little Redstone, Long Run, McClellandtown and Round Hill 
 were reported, making fifteen auxiliaries with a membership of 
 610, taking 123 copies of "Woman's Work," and contributing for 
 the year ;^986.38. Thus was our Presbyterial society fairly 
 launched, and from this time on the records of the Woman's For- 
 eign Missionary Society, at 1334 Chestnut street, give the statis- 
 tics of our work. The constitution adopted at one of the previous 
 meetings was very brief and did not define the times of meeting. 
 A resolution had fixed October and June as the time for regular 
 
1/6 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 meetings. There seeming to be some confusion on this point, a 
 committee was chosen to revise the constitution and the next 
 meeting was appointed for Uniontown in October. So many la- 
 dies being absent at that time at the Centennial in Philadelphia, 
 the meeting was postponed, and the society next con\'ened at 
 Long Run church, April 24th, 1877. At this time the following 
 officers were chosen; president, Mrs. A. M. Bailie, of McKees- 
 port; recording secretary, Mrs. Wm. N. Robbins, of Long Run; 
 corresponding secretary. Miss M. B. Campbell, of Uniontown ; 
 treasurer, Mrs. S. S. Gilson, of Uniontown. The report on con- 
 stitution was deferred, but it w-as decided that the annual meeting 
 should be held each year in October, and a meeting was appoint- 
 ed for this year in McKeesport in October. Mrs. W. H. Schenck, 
 President, and Mrs. A. L. Massey, one of the secretaries of the 
 parent society, being providentially present at this time, the for- 
 mer presided over the sessions by request of the president, Mrs. 
 Bailie. The subject of the constitution occupied m.uch time and 
 one founded largely on the model sent out from 1334 Chestnut 
 street, the headquarters of the Woman's Foreign Missionary So- 
 ciety of the Presbyterian Church, was adopted article by article. 
 It pledged auxiliaryship to this society, but the name already 
 chosen was left unchanged with a view to hearing reports, etc., 
 of other mission work than that done exclusively in foreign fields. 
 In it four vice-presidents were provided for, to be elected by the 
 society, and those chosen at this time were Mrs. S. F. Stevenson, 
 of Scottdale ; Miss Maggie McClintock, of New Providence ; Miss 
 L. G. Neel, of Mt. Pleasant Reunion; and Mrs. Angeline Walker, 
 of Round Hill. The other officers were re-elected. Considera- 
 ble discussion was held as to the advisability of holding our 
 meetings in connection with Presbytery. All admitted the 
 benefit of the joint ev^ening sessions, yet the difficulty of hav- 
 ing a place for both meetings selected by either one of the bod- 
 ies, the extra burden upon those entertaining, and the absence 
 of many ministers' wives from such meetings because they 
 could not leave home at the same time with their husbands 
 seemed weighty arguments on the other side. The decision 
 was left to the Executive Committee and to them also was re- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 177 
 
 ferred the work of districting the Presbytery and assigning to 
 each member of the Executive Committee a certain number of 
 churches in which she was to endeavor to secure new organiza- 
 tions and foster and care for those already formed. At an Ex- 
 ecutive Committee meeting, held in Connellsville, June 17th, the 
 Prerbytery was divided into seven districts. These have since 
 been changed to four, but the system is still in force. It was 
 thought best to meet at a difiterent time and place from Presby- 
 tery, and the next meeting was fixed for Dunbar. At this time 
 Miss Campbell was relieved from the corresponding secretary- 
 ship, by her own request, and Miss E. G. Neel was chosen to fill 
 the position, while Miss Campbell agreed to take the place of 
 vice-president, then held by I\Iiss Neel. Thus, with the excep- 
 tion of this interim, Miss Neel has been our corresponding secre- 
 tary ever since the organization until this present time. Mrs. 
 Gilson leaving the Presbytery, Miss Fannie Elliot was chosen 
 treasurer at the next meeting held in Belle Vernon, October 22d 
 and 23d. 1879. At this meeting the first complete and separate 
 reports from Bands were received and recorded, showing nine 
 Bands, viz.: Happy Band, of Belle Vernon; Loring Band, of 
 Dunbar; Fitna Band, of Elizabeth ; Star Band, of Long Run; 
 McBride Band, of McKeesport ; Ingleside Band, of Mt. Pleasant; 
 Layyah Band, of Mt. Pleasant Reunion; Trusting Band, of Pleas- 
 ant Unity, and Syrian Maids of Uniontown. Of these, a few 
 had been organized for some time; some were revived and others 
 newly organized by Miss Loring, in her second tour of the Pres- 
 bytery, in this year. While some of these have kept steadily on 
 under the same name, (changing their membership from time to 
 time, of course,) others have dropped out and new organizations 
 have taken their places, while we regret to say that in some of 
 these churches, despite the increased facilities for carrying on 
 such work, no organization for children exists to-day. The 
 children who constituted these Bands in 1879, are not in such or- 
 ganizations now, having outgrown them, but we rejoice to know 
 that the impetus to consecrated life then given has not been lost, 
 and have we not just now sent out one of these little ones, a 
 member of this same Happy Band at this time, to cany the 
 
178 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 "good news" to the benighted women of China? These nine 
 Bands had at this time a membership of 246 and contributed for 
 the year ^291.97. 
 
 In 1880 we met in Mt. Pleasant, changing our treasurer to 
 Mrs. E. J. Kaine, of Uniontown. In 1881 we met in EHzabeth 
 and chose for treasurer, Mrs. S. F. Jones, of Belle Vernon, who 
 has ever since filled the position so ably. In 1882 we met at 
 New Salem, with a face grown very familiar missing, recalling 
 the fact that death had for the first time since our organization, 
 removed one of our officers, and we paid grateful tribute to the 
 memory of Mrs. W. N. Robbins, who had, since her election in 
 1887, so faithfully filled her place as Recording Secretary. Miss 
 Maggie McClintock, of Carmichaels, was chosen to fill the place 
 thus made vacant and she continues to be the Recording Secre- 
 tary up to this time. Another Corresponding Secretary has been 
 added for young people and the position is filled by Miss Sadie 
 Speers, of Dunbar. 
 
 These years, thus rapidly named, had witnessed much steady 
 growth, but no particular change in plans or methods. At the 
 eighth annual meeting, held in Long Run Church, in 1883, Miss 
 F. A. Dyer, of Covington. Pa., an official representative of the 
 Woman's Executive Committee of Home Mission presented 
 this cause and urged definite action. The majority favoring a 
 separate organization, a meeting was arranged for that purpose 
 and a Presbyterial Home Missionary Society was formed, which 
 held its meetings jointly with us (each society taking one day); 
 in 1884, at Uniontown; in 1885, at McKeesport; in 1886, at Mt 
 Pleasant and in 1887, at West Newton. In the meantime our 
 constitution was changed, altering our name to "The Woman's 
 Foreign Missionary Society of Redstone Presbytery." At the 
 meeting in West Newton, it was proposed to try separate meet- 
 ings, one in the spring and one in the fall, many thereby hoping 
 to shorten the time and increase the interest in both meetings. 
 Our constitution requiring us to meet in October, notices of a 
 proposed change were sent out and a called meeting was held in 
 Connellsville, to consider this subject and test the feasibility of a 
 spring meeting. The proposed change was lost and we met 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 179 
 
 again in the fall at Rehoboth, in September, instead of October, 
 in order to have the privilege of saying good-bye to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Hamilton, our own Clara Linton, and bidding them God 
 speed on their way to China. During the month of June, Mrs. 
 Mary Shaw, of Cincinnati, Ohio, formerly of China, visited our 
 societies and bands, forming some new ones and stimulating the 
 work. By the statistical report at the close, it will be seen that 
 our gain in some things has been small, in others great, but we 
 know that whatever we may have been enabled to accomplish 
 for our heathen sisters, through God's blessing upon our efforts, 
 "He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad" and our 
 earnest prayer is, that all the women of our churches may be 
 aroused to their privilege in this matter of working "together 
 with Christ," and come with us, for we know that we, through 
 God's help, will do them good. 
 
 
 
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l80 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY 
 SOCIETY. 
 
 BY MRS. R. E. P. ANDREWS. 
 
 By the instruction of the General Assembly of 1876, the 
 Synods were authorized to form Synodical Committees in the 
 Presbyteries. The object was to organize Woman's Home Mis- 
 sion work, that the increasing demand in our land might be met. 
 Mrs. E. J. Kaine, of Uniontown, was appointed for this work in 
 Redstone Presbytery, to serve for one year. Afterward, at her 
 request, Mrs. W. Fulton Price, of Dunbar, was made a co-worker. 
 The duties of this committee were not clearly defined, and un- 
 der the circumstances it was difficult to know what to do. 
 
 After the organization of the Synodical Committee of the 
 Synod, the following Synodical Committee of the Presbytery was 
 appointed : Mrs. Joseph Robbins, of Long Run ; Miss Ruth E. 
 Plumer, of West Newton, and Mrs. Thomas Irwin, of Long Run. 
 
 At the meeting of the "Woman's Missionary Society" at 
 Long Run, in October, 1883, the work of Home Missions was 
 definitely presented by the Secretary of the Synodical Committee. 
 A desire for organization was manifest. The Corresponding Sec- 
 retary of the Woman's Executive Committee, Miss Fannie A. 
 Dyer, was present, and was invited to visit the churches. This 
 was done and on the 6th of March, 1884, in the church at Con- 
 nellsville, the organization was formed. The chairman of the 
 Synodical Committee of the Synod, Mrs. Kate P. Bryan, pre- 
 sided. At the close of devotional exercises the object of the 
 meeting was stated, and Miss Ruth E. Plumer was chosen secre- 
 tary. The roll was called and the following churches responded 
 by delegate : Long Run, West Newton, Connellsville, Union- 
 town, New Salem, Tent, Fairchance, Mt. Vernon, Mt. Pleasant; 
 by representation: Scottdale and New Providence; by letter: 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. l8l 
 
 McKeesport, Dunlap's Creek, Somerset, Rehoboth, New Provi- 
 dence, Belle Vernon. There were also present, Mrs. Bailey and 
 Miss L. G. Neel, president and secretary of the "Woman's Mis- 
 sionary Society" of the Presbytery. Shall we organize jointly 
 or separately was open for discussion and each delegate was 
 called to express the wish of her society. West Newton alone, 
 gave her voice for joint organization, that is, one president for 
 Home and Foreign, and distinct secretaries and treasurers. The 
 following officers were then elected: President, Mrs. A. Z. Mc- 
 Gogney, Connellsville. Vice-presidents, Mrs. Neff, New Haven ; 
 Mrs. Knox, McKeesport; Mrs. Larimer, Long Run; Mrs. Mil- 
 holland, Uniontown. Corresponding Secretary, Miss Ruth E. 
 Plumer, West Newton. Recording Secretary, Mrs. S. E. C. Al- 
 lison, Uniontown. Treasurer, Mrs. Brittie Power Huselton, 
 West Newton. The Constitution was adopted as a whole, with 
 such exceptions as suited the convenience of the society. 
 
 At the close of the meeting, the Executive Committees of 
 the two societies held a brief session and decided to hold the 
 two annual meetings at the same time and place, devoting one- 
 half time to each society. The first meeting was held in Union- 
 town, in September, 1884; the second in McKeesport, in Octo- 
 ber, 1885. At this meeting, Miss Annie S. Ewing, of Union- 
 town, was elected Recording Secretary. Annual reports of our 
 work were sent to the spring sessions of Presbytery. In the 
 spring following the last meeting, a letter was prepared by the 
 Corresponding Secretary and addressed : "To the Pastors and 
 Ruling Elders of Redstone Presbytery now in session at Mc- 
 Keesport." In this our work was presented and approved, and 
 co-operation invited. 
 
 The following reply was received: 
 
 Fairchanxe, Pa., July 14th, 1886. 
 Miss Ruth E. Plumer, Secretary of Presbyterial Home Missions : 
 
 I am instructed to send you the following action of Red- 
 stone Presbytery: Resolved, ist. That the Presbytery hereby 
 expresses its great satisfaction, in view of the good work accom- 
 plished by our Home Mission Presbyterial Society, and that we 
 
152 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 express to them our entire sympathy with them in their work. 
 2d. That our Stated Clerk be directed to transmit to this socie- 
 ty, through their Secretary, Miss R. E. Plumer, these resolu- 
 tions, together with the resolutions referring to their work at our 
 last stated meeting. The action taken at Pleasant Unity is as 
 follows: Resolved, That we urge the organization of a Wo- 
 man's Home Missionary Society in every church in the Presby- 
 tery, where such an organization does not exist. 
 
 W. C. Bailey, Stated Clerk. 
 
 The third meeting was held in Mt. Pleasant Reunion Church, 
 and at this meeting Miss Ruth E. Plumer was elected president 
 and Mrs. Davitt, of McKeesport, corresponding secretary. The 
 latter declining, the work was carried on for the year without the 
 office. 
 
 The fourth annual meeting was held in West Newton. An 
 interesting feature was a Thank Offering service. The offering 
 amounted to $101.75. Mrs. R. F. Smith, of Pleasant Unity, was 
 elected recording secretary, and Mrs. Isabel R. Harrison, of Mc- 
 Keesport, corresponding secretary. 
 
 Valuable service has been given by Mrs. Sarah Finley, Mrs. 
 L. P. Meloy, Mrs. Vinnie Robinson, Mrs. M. C. Bailey and Mrs. 
 A. O. Robinson. 
 
 Death has found its shining marks and removed Mrs. Berry, 
 Mrs. Larimer, Mrs. Emma Robinson Deffenbaugh and Miss Ada 
 Brown. 
 
 To advance the work, letters have been sent to the auxilia- 
 ries and churches, literature distributed and meetings held in the 
 four districts. 
 
 There are fifteen Societies, six Bands and one "Young Men's 
 Circle." The total membership of the Society, as reported, is 
 444. It has contributed in money, 1^2,459, ^"^ '^^ boxes, $724.96. 
 
 The office of treasurer has been filled since the organization 
 by Mrs. Brittle Power Huselton. The foundation has been laid 
 in believing prayer, and we trust this fair building will rise to the 
 honor of the Lord our God. 
 
 The fifth annual meeting will be held in Uniontown, Octo- 
 ber loth, 1888. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 183 
 
 ROLL OF MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES. 
 
 No. I. Joseph Smith. Original member; lie. P.b.y. New 
 Castle, Aug. 5, '67; ord. and inst. Lower Brandywine, Del, P. 
 April 19, '67-1772; 2d ch. Brandywine, P. 1774-1778; transferred 
 to Presbytery of Redstone; P. Buffalo and Cross Creek, 1780- 
 1792; died, April 19, 1792. 
 
 No. 2. John McMillan, D. D. Original member; lie. 
 1774, Pres. New Castle; ord. Pres. Donegal; P. Chartiers and 
 Pigeon Creek, 1781-1833; set over to form Ohio Pres., Oct. 18, 
 1793; died, Nov. 16, 1833; founded the "Log College" about 
 i78o-'82. 
 
 No. 3. James Power, D. D. Original member; lie. June 
 24, 1772, by Pres. of New Castle; ord. by same, 1776; P. Sewick- 
 ley, 1781-1787; Mt. Pleasant, 1781 — April 15, 1817; died, Aug. 5, 
 1830. 
 
 No. 4. Thaddeus Dodd. Original member; lie. 1775, 
 Pres. New York; ord. same Pres., 1777; P. Patterson's Creek, 
 Hampshire co., Va., 1 777-1 779; transferred to Ten Mile, Red- 
 stone; P. 1 781-1793; taught Ten Mile and Washington; died. 
 May 20, 1793. 
 
 No. 5. James DuNLAP, D. D. Lie. 1776, Pres. Donegal; 
 ord. 1781, Pres. New Castle; rec'd, Oct. 15, 1782; P. Dun- 
 lap's Creek, 1782-89; Laurel Hill, 1782 — June 29, 1803; 
 dis. Pres. Ohio, June 29, 1803; Pres't Jeff. Coll., 1803-1811; 
 rec'd, Oct. 29, 18 1 3, Ohio; P. Uniontown, 1812-1814; dis. Oct. 
 16, 1 8 16, Phila.; died, 1818. 
 
 No. 6. John Clark. Rec'd Pres. New Castle, March 12, 
 1783; supplied for a time Peter's Creek; P. Lebanon, April; 1788, 
 Bethel — transferred to Pres. Ohio, Oct. 18, 1793. 
 
 No. 7. James Finley. Ord. and inst. by New Castle Pres. 
 P. East Nottingham, Md., 1752-1782; rec'd, June 21, 1785; P. 
 Rehoboth and Round Hill, 1785-1795; died, Jan. 6, 1795. 
 
184 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 No. 8. Samuel Barr. Called to Pittsburg and Pitt tp., 
 Dec, 1785 ; rec'd from Pres. New Castle, April 17, 1787; P. Pitts- 
 burg and Pitt tp., till June, 1789; suspended, 1789 ; restored, 
 1790; dis. to Pres. New Castle, Sept. 30, 1790. 
 
 No. 9. John Brice. Taken on trials, Aug. 16, 1786; lie. 
 April 16, 1788; ord. April 22, 1790 and inst. P. Three Ridges 
 and Forks of Wheeling; transferred to form Pres. Ohio, Oct. 18, 
 
 1793- 
 
 No. 10. James Hughes. Taken on trials, Aug. 16, 1786; 
 lie. April 16, 1788; called, April 22, 1789, to Lower Buffalo and 
 Short Creek; ord. and inst. P., April 21, 1790; transferred to 
 form Pres. of Ohio, Oct. 18, 1793. 
 
 No. II. Joseph Patterson. Taken on trials, Aug. 13, 
 1788; lie. Aug. 13, 1788; called, April 22, 1789, to Upper Rac- 
 coon and Montour's Run; ord. and inst., Nov. ii, 1789; trans- 
 ferred to form Pres. Ohio, Oct. 18, 1793. 
 
 No. 12. James McGrady. Taken on trial, April 19, 1787; 
 lie. Aug. 13, 1788 ; dismissed as licentiate to Pres. of Orange, 
 April 20, 1 79 1. 
 
 No. 13. John McPherrin. On trials, Jan. 21, 1789; lie. 
 Aug. 20, 1789; called to Salem and Unity, April 20, 1790; ord. 
 and inst., Sept. 22, 1790 ; Unity, 1790-1800; Salem, 1790 — April 
 19, 1803 ; dis. to Erie, Oct. 16, 1804. 
 
 No. 14. Samuel Porter. On trial as cand., Jan. 22, 1789; 
 lie. Nov. 12, 1789; called to Poke Run and Congruity, April 21, 
 1789; ord. and inst.. Poke Run and Congruity, Sept. 22, 1790 — 
 April II, 1798; inst. Congruity, P. April 11, 1798 ; died, Sept. 23, 
 1825. 
 
 No. 15. Robert Marshel. On trials, April 24, 1789; lie. 
 April 23, 1790; Synodical Miss'y, Sept. 30, 1790 — Oct. 1792; 
 dis. to Pres. Transylvania, 1792, as licentiate. 
 
 No. 16. Rev. Robert Finley. Rec'd Nov. 11, 1789, from 
 Pres. S. Carolina; called to Mill Creek and King's Creek, April 
 21, 1790; dis. June 29, 1791, Ky. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 85 
 
 No. 17. George Hill. On trials, April 23, 1790; lie. Dec. 
 22, 1 791 ; called to Fairfield, Donegal and Wheatfield, April 17, 
 1792; ord. Nov. 13, 1792, and inst. as P. — Wheatfield, April 11, 
 1798; Fairfield and Donegal, 1798 — Oct. 21, 1818; called to 
 Fairfield and Ligonier same date; inst. Nov., 1818; died, June 9, 
 1822. 
 
 No. 18. William Swan. On trials, April 21, 1791 ; lie. 
 Dec. 22, 1791 ; called to Long Run and Sewickley and ord. and 
 inst., Oct. 16, 1793; res. Oct. 20, 181 8; called to Long Run, 
 April 20, 1 8 19, and inst. during the summer; res. April 17, 
 1822; died, Nov. 13, 1827. 
 
 No. 19. David Smith. On trials, Dec. 20, 1791 ; lie. Nov. 
 14, 1792 ; called to George's Creek and Union (Tent), Oct. 16, 
 '93 ; ord. and inst, Aug. 20, 1794; res. Oct. 18, 1797 ; Rehoboth 
 and Round Hill, inst. Dec. 27, 1797; died, Aug. 24, 1803. 
 
 No. 20. Rev. Jacob Jennings. Rec'd, April 17, 1792, Ref. 
 Dutch Synod N. Y. and N. J.; supplied previously at Delap's 
 Creek and Muddy Creek; called and inst. P. Delap's Creek and 
 Muddy Creek; dis. fi-om Muddy Creek, Oct. 17, 1797; resigned 
 Dunlap's Creek, June 18, 181 1; died, Feb. 17, 1813. 
 
 No. 21. Thomas Marquis. On trials, April 19, 1792; lie. 
 April 19, 1793; dis. as licentiate to Ohio Pres., April 15, 1794; 
 called to Cross Creek. 
 
 No. 22. Boyd Mercer. On trials, June 27, 1792; lie. 
 April 19, 1793; dis. as licentiate to Pres. Ohio, Oct. 22, 1794; 
 supplied part of the time at McKeesport till 1822. 
 
 No. 23. Samuel Mahon. Rec'd as a licentiate from Pres. 
 Carlisle, Nov. 14, 1792; called to Pittsburg; dis. to Carlisle, Oct. 
 17. 1793- 
 
 No. 24. Thomas Moore. Rec'd as licentiate from Cong'l 
 Asso. of Bristol, Mass., Oct. 16, 1793; called to United Con- 
 gregations of Ten Mile; dis. to the Pres. of Ohio, Aug. 19, 1794; 
 ord. and inst. there, Oct. 16, 1799; rec'd from Ohio, July 4, 1804; 
 
1 86 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 called to Salem and inst., April 19, 1809; dis. April 20, 1814, to 
 Lancaster Pres. 
 
 No. 25. James Adams. On trials, April 23, 1795; lie. 
 April 20, 1797; called to Union (Tent), George's Creek and 
 Muddy Creek (New Providence), April 9, 1799; ord. and inst., 
 Oct. 19, following; resigned Muddy Creek, April 22, 1802; res. 
 Oct. 19, 1 8 14, and dis, same time to Pres. of Lancaster. 
 
 No. 26. Samuel Ralston. Rec'd as licentiate from Pres. 
 New Castle, April 19, 1796; dis. Pres. Ohio, Oct 19, 1796; called 
 to Mingo Creek and Horse Shoe Bottom. 
 
 No. 27. Wm. Woods. Rec'd as licentiate, Pres, New Cas- 
 tle, Oct. 19, 1796; dis. Pres. Ohio, April 18, 1797; called to 
 Bethel and Lebanon. 
 
 No. 28. Andrew Given. On trials, Oct 18, 1797; lie, 
 Oct. 18, 1798; dis. as a lie. to Pres. of Ohio, Dec. 25, 1799. 
 
 No. 29. Rev. Jos. W. Henderson. Rec'd from Pres. Car- 
 lisle, April 9, 1799; called to Ebenezer and Bethel, on Blacklick, 
 April 10, 1799; res. Oct. 22, 1823; set over to form Blairsville 
 Pres., Oct. 30, 1830. 
 
 No. 30. William MooRHEAD. On trials, June 26, 1799; 
 lie. April 9, 1800; died, Dec. i, 1802; traveled for his health. 
 
 No. 31. John Boyd. On trials, April 10, 1800; lie. April 
 23, 1801 ; accepted a call and was dismissed, Oct. 21, 1801, to 
 the Pres. of Erie, organized by Synod of Va. in 1801. 
 
 No. 32. Francis Laird. Lie. from Pres. Carlisle; rec'd, 
 June 24, 1800; called to Puckety (Plum Creek) and Poke Run, 
 same date; ord. and inst., Oct. 22, 1800; set over to form Blairs- 
 ville Pres., Oct. 30, 1830. 
 
 No. 33. Rev. John Black. Rec'd Pres. Carlisle, Dec. 24, 
 1800; supplied Greensburg and Unity, April 21, 1801 — April 21, 
 1802. 
 
 No. 34. John Wright. On trials, April 23, 1801; lie, 
 Oct. 21, 1802; called to Hawking and Rush Creek, April 17, 
 1805, Pres. Ohio, and dis., Oct. 16, 1805. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 8/ 
 
 No. 35. James McLane. Lie. and rec'd, Oct. 21, i8oi, from 
 Pres. Carlisle, supply; last mention found of him, April 19, 1804. 
 
 No. 36. Abraha.m Boyd. Lie. and rec'd, Oct. 21, 1801, 
 from Pres. Ohio ; accepted call and dismissed to the new Pres. 
 of Erie, Oct. 21, 1801. 
 
 No. 37. James Guthrie. On trials, Oct. 22, 1801 ; lie. 
 April 20, 1803; called to Laurel Hill and Tyrone, April 18, 1804, 
 and ord. and inst. P., April 17, 1805-1850; died, Aug. 24, 1850. 
 
 No. 38. Rev. Robert Steele. Rec'd, April 21, 1802, 
 from Pres. Londonderry, Ireland, after the trials prescribed by 
 the General As.sembly; called to Pittsburg. Oct. 20, 1802; had 
 supplied previously ; died, March 22, 1810. 
 
 No. 39. Robert McGarraugh. On trials, June 23, 1802; 
 lie. Oct. 19, 1803; called to New Rehoboth and Licking, April 
 17, 1805, and after several disappointments because of distance, 
 ord. and inst., Nov. 12, 1807; set over to Erie, Oct. 15, 181 1. 
 
 No. 40. James Galbraith. On trials, June 23, 1802; lie. 
 Oct. 19, 1803; itinerated out of bounds of Pres.; dis. to Erie, 
 Oct. 17, 1805; rec'd from Erie, Oct. 22, 1806, and called to Gil- 
 gal and Harmony; ord. and inst. P., Nov. 13, 1806; res. Har- 
 mony, April 21, 181 1 ; supplied at Indiana half time; res. Gilgal, 
 April 16, 1816; dis. April 17, 1866, to Huntingdon. 
 
 No. 41. Rev. William Speer. Rec'd, April 19, 1803, 
 from Pres. of Washington; called to Greensburg and Unity and 
 inst. pastor; died, April 26, 1829. 
 
 No. 42. James Graham. Lie. and rec'd, April 18, 1804, 
 from Pres. Carlisle; called to Pitt tp. (Beulah), April 18, 1804; 
 ord. and inst, Oct. 18, 1804; set over to Blairsville Pres., Oct. 30, 
 1830. 
 
 No. 43. Rev. Wm. Wylie. Rec'd, Feb. 6, 1805, from Pres. 
 Erie, and called to Rehoboth and Round Hill and inst. same 
 year; res. April 16, 18 16; called to Uniontown, April 21, 18 19; 
 
1 88 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 inst. P. 1st Tuesday of May, 1819; res. Oct., 1823, and dis. to 
 Pres. of Washington. 
 
 No. 44. Rev. Nathaniel R. Snowden. Rec'd, Oct. 15, 
 1805, from Pres. Carlisle and called on Oct. 16, to 2d Pres. ch., 
 Pittsburg, and inst.; res. and was dis. to Pres. of New Castle, 
 Dec. 10, 1805 ; rec'd, April 19, 1825; supplied Kittanning two 
 years; dis. to Allegheny Pres., Oct. 6, 1830. 
 
 No. 45. John Boggs. Lie. and rec'd, Oct. 21, 1807, from 
 Pres. of Winchester and called to the 2d Pres. ch., Pittsburg; ord. 
 and inst. P., Dec. 2d, 1807; res. April 20, 1808, and dis. to Pres. 
 of Winchester. 
 
 No. 46. Samuel Porter, Jr. On trials, April 18, 1809; 
 lie. Dec. 26, 1809; dis., Oct. 17, 18 10, to Pres. of Carlisle. 
 
 No. 47. Thomas Hurst. Lie. and rec'd, June 27, 1809, 
 from Pres. Ohio, and called to the 2d ch., Pittsburg ; ord. and 
 inst. P., Dec. 27, 1809; res. July 1st, 18 18; dis. Oct 9, 18 18, to 
 Ohio. 
 
 No. 48. Rev. Joseph Stockton. Rec'd, Oct. 17, 18 10, 
 from Pres. Erie; supply Allegheny and Pine Creek, '15-22; set 
 over to Pres. of Ohio, October 15, '22. 
 
 No. 49. Rev. Francis Herron. Rec'd, June 18, 181 1, 
 from Pres. Carlisle and called to the ist Pres. ch., Pittsburg, and 
 inst. as pastor; set over to Pi'es. of Ohio on Oct. 15, '22 ; res. in 
 '50 ; died, Dec. 6, '60. 
 
 No. 50. Rev. Robert Lee. Rec'd, April 20, '13, Pres. 
 Erie; called, April 21, to Salem, and inst. P., Aug., '13 ; res., Oct. 
 20, '19; dis., April 17, '22, to Pres. Richland. 
 
 No. 51. Wm. Johnston. Lie. and rec'd, April 21, '13, 
 from Ohio and called to Dunlap's Creek and Brownsville, and 
 ord. and inst. P., Oct. 20, '13 ; died, Dec. 31, '41. 
 
 No. 52. Rev. Robert Patterson. Rec'd, Oct. 19, '13, 
 from Pres. Erie; set over to Pres. of Ohio, Oct. 15, '22. 
 
 No. 53. James Coe. On trials, Oct. 17, '16; lie. Oct. 22, 
 '17; dis. April 21, '19, to Pres. Washington. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 89 
 
 No. 54. John Ross. No mention of his reception as licen- 
 tiate ; after trials, ord. Dec. 3, '17, and inst. as P. of Somerset; 
 res. Oct. 20, '19; dis. to Pres. Ohio, same time. 
 
 No. 55. Rev. Robert Johnston. Rec'd, April 21, '18, 
 from Erie and called to Rehoboth and Round Hill and inst. P., 
 June, 1818; res. Dec. 13. '31 ; supply for the winter; dis. to Blairs- 
 ville, April, '34. 
 
 No. 56. John Reed. Licentiate rec'd, April 21, '18, from 
 Ohio and called to Indiana and Gilgal; ord. and inst. P., Oct. 21, 
 *i8; set over to Blairsville, Oct. 30, '30. 
 
 No. 57. AsHBEL Green Fairchild. Licentiate rec'd, April 
 21, '18, from Pres. New Jersey; ord. as Ev., July i, '18; called 
 to Morgantown, George's Creek and Greensboro, July 2, '22, and 
 inst. P.; res. Morgantown and Greensboro, Oct. 19, '27; called to 
 Union (Tent), Oct, 19, and inst. 2d Monday of Nov., '2"]; died, 
 June 30, '64. 
 
 No. 58. Rev. Asa Brooks. Rec'd, April 20, '19, Cen- 
 tral Association, county of Hampshire, Mass.; called to French 
 Creek and Buckhannon, April 21; res. French Creek, Oct. 5, 
 '31 ; supply Clarksburg for 6 mos. ; died, Dec. 23, '34. 
 
 No. 59. Rev, Elisha P. Swift. Rec'd, Oct. 19, '19, from 
 Pres. of New Castle and called, Oct. 20, to 2d Pres. ch. Pittsburg, 
 and inst. ist Wednesday Nov. following; set over to Pres. Ohio, 
 Oct. 15, '22; continued in this pastorate till March, '33; Sec. W. 
 F. M. Society of Synod of Pittsburg, '33-35; P. ist ch., Alle- 
 gheny, '35-65 ; died, April 3, '65 ; D. D. 
 
 No. 60. Rev. Aretus Loomis. Rec'd, April 18, '20, from 
 Central Association, Hampshire co., Mass., and called to L^pper 
 and Lower congregations of Tygart's Valley; attached to Pres. 
 of Lexington, Oct. '23. 
 
 No. 61. Rev. Allen D. Campbell. Rec'd, Oct. 18, '20, 
 A. R. Pres. Monongahela; dis. Oct. 18, '20, to West Tennessee; 
 D. D. 
 
 No. 62. Rev. David Barclay. Rec'd, Oct. 18, '20, from 
 Pres. of Newton ; supplied Harmony, Lower Plum Creek and 
 
IQO PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 Glade Run, '21 ; supply at Punxsutawney part of time, Oct., '23; 
 set off, Oct. 30, '30. to Blairsville. 
 
 No. 63. Thomas Davis. On trials, Oct. 18, '20; lie. Feb. 
 13, '22; called to Salem and West Union (now Blairsville), Oct. 
 16, '22; ord. and inst, Nov. 13, '22; setoff, O.ct. 30, '30. This re- 
 lation continued till his death. May 28, '48. Rev. George Hill, 
 D. D., was co-pastor from Dec. 4, '41, and is still pastor of Blairs- 
 ville, with a co-pastor for the last year. 
 
 No. 64. Andrew O. Patterson. Licentiate rec'd, Jan. 15, 
 '21, from Pres. Washington ; ord. and inst. P. Mt. Pleasant and 
 Sewickley, April 18, '21 — Oct. 8, '34; Agt. Bd. Home Miss., 
 '34; dis. to Beaver, April 5, '37; from Pres. Oxford, Nov. 11, '57; 
 inst. P. West Newton same day ; res. April, '63 ; to Pres. Oxford, 
 April 29, '63. 
 
 No. 65. Rev. John Andrews. Rec'd, April 16, '22, from 
 Pres. Chillicothe; set over to Pres. of Ohio, Oct. 15, 22, 
 
 No. 66. Matthew Dunlap. Licentiate rec'd, April, 6, '23, 
 from Relief Pres. of Glasgow, Scotland ; supplied various places 
 in and out of Pres.; was dismissed to Richland Pres., April 12, 
 '27; did not go ; last mention, Oct. 7, '30. 
 
 No. 67. John H. Kirkpatrick. Cand., April 20, '24; lie. 
 Oct. 4, '25 ; ord. and inst. P. Harmony and Armagh, Dec. 13, '26; 
 set over to Pres. Blairsville, Oct. 30, '30. 
 
 No. 68. Samuel Swan. Licentiate rec'd, April 20, '24, from 
 Pres. Huntingdon; ord. and inst. P. Fairfield, Ligonier and Don- 
 egal, June 17, '24; set over to Pres. Blairsville, Oct. 30, '30. 
 
 No, 69. Rev. Jesse Smith. Rec'd, April 21, '24, from 
 Pres. Winchester; inst. P. Ebenezer and Bethel, on Blacklick, 3d 
 Tuesday June; set over to Blairsville, Oct. 30, '30. 
 
 No. 70. Alexander McCandless. Licentiate rec'd. Oct. 
 19, '24, Pres. Ohio and ord. and inst. P. Long Run and McKees- 
 port, April 20, '25; res. McKeesport, Oct. 5, '37; res. Long- Run, 
 June 5, '38 ; inst. again '39 — April 8, '45 ; to Pres. Newton, N. J., 
 Sept. 12, '46. 
 
PRKSBYTERY OF REDSTONE. I9I 
 
 No. 71. Rev. Nathaniel R. Snowden. Rec'd, April 19, 
 '25, Pres. Northumberland ; supplied Kittanning and elsewhere; 
 dis. to Allegheny Pres., Oct. 6, '30. 
 
 No. 72. Rev. Joseph Harper. Rec'd, April 19, '25, Pres. 
 Richland ; inst. P. Saltsburg and Warren, 3d Thursday May, '25 ; 
 res. Warren, Oct. 6, '29; res. Saltsburg and dis. to Hartford (or 
 Erie), Oct. 5, '31. 
 
 No. 73. Rev. George Vaxeman. Attached by Synod to 
 Redstone, from Ohio, Oct. 3, '26 ; P. New Providence and Jef- 
 ferson; res. April 8, '35; to Pres. Miami, June 18, '35. 
 
 No. 74. Elisha D. Barret, M. D. Cand., Oct. 5, '25 ; lie. 
 April 12, '27; ord. P. Lower Plum Creek and Glade Run, Dec. lO, 
 '28; set over to Blairsville Pres., Oct. 30, '30. 
 
 No. 75. Samuel McFarren. Licentiate rec'd, Aug. 29, 
 '27 ,Pres. Washington; ord. and inst. P. Congruity, Oct. 3, '27; 
 set over to Blairsville Pres., Oct. 30, '30. 
 
 No. ^6. John Holmes Agnew. * Licentiate rec'd, Dec, 11, 
 '27, Pres. Carlisle, and ord. and inst. P. Uniontown, Jan. 26, '28 ; 
 res. April 2, '31, and dis. Washington Pres. 
 
 No. 'j'j. Ada.m Torrence. Cand., Oct. 8, '28 ; lie. Oct. 7, 
 '30; dis. to Pres. Richland, Oct. 4, '31. 
 
 No. 78. Robert Henry. Liccentiate rec'd, Oct. 7, '29, 
 from 2d Pres. New York ; ord. and inst. P. Greensburg and Unity, 
 April 7, '30; died, '39. 
 
 No. 79. John T. Ewing. Licentiate rec'd, Oct. 21, '29, 
 from Pres. New Brunswick ; to Blairsville Pres., Dec. 6, '32. 
 
 No. 80. Watson Hughes. Licentiate rec'd, June 15, '30, 
 Pres. Hartford ; ord. and inst. P. Saltsburg and Warren, Oct. 6, 
 '30; set over to Blairsville, Oct. 30, '30; from Blairsville, April 8, 
 '51; inst. P. West Newton, June 11 — Sept. 20, '54, and dis. to 
 Pres Ohio; from Pres. Ohio, Nov. 11, '57 ; died, March 25, '69. 
 
 No. 81. James Campbell. Licentiate rec'd, June 15, '30, 
 Pres. New Brunswick ; ord. and inst. P. Kittanning and Crooked 
 Creek, Aug. 11, '30; set over to Blairsville, Oct. 30, '30. 
 
192 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 No. 82. S. Howell Terry. Licentiate rec'd, June 15, '30. 
 Pres. Lewes; ord. and inst. P. Somerset and Jenner, July 7, '30 — 
 April 8, '35 ; to Blairsville Pres. same date. 
 
 No. 83. James Wilson. Cand., June 15, '30; lie. April 3, 
 '33; to Hudson Pres.. Oct. 18, '33. 
 
 No. 84. John Watson Johnston. Cand., April 2, '31 ; lie. 
 April 3, 33; to Pres. Allegheny, April 7, '36. 
 
 No. 85. Bela Allen. Cand., April 2, '31; died, March 
 26, '32. 
 
 No. 86. Joel Stoneroad. Licentiate rec'd, Oct. 4, '3 1 , Pres. 
 New Brunswick; ord. and inst. P. Uniontown, Dec. 13, '31 — 
 April 14, '41; to Pres. Washington, Oct. 6, '42; from Washing- 
 ton, June 5, '50, and installed co-pastor with Rev. Jas. Guthrie, 
 over Laurel Hill and Tyrone; then pastor; died, Aug. 1 1, '84. 
 
 No. 87. Rev. Cyrus B. Bristol. From Pres. of Bedford, 
 April 4, '32, and inst. P. Middletown or Fairmount; res. April 
 7, '44; to Blairsville Pres., April 8, '45. 
 
 No. 88. Robert M. Finley. Cand., Oct. 4. '32 ; lie. Oct. 
 9, '34; ord. as Ev., Oct. 5, '36; S. Supply Somerset and Jenner, 
 '46-'47 ; to Pres. Wooster, April 13, '47. 
 
 No. 89. Rev. Noah H. Gillett. From 2d Pres. Long 
 Island; inst. P. Rehoboth and Round Hill. Dec. 31, '34; res. 
 Round Hill, Nov. 17, '40, all his time to Rehoboth; res. Oct. 4, 
 '48, and dis. to Blairsville same day. 
 
 No. 90. James McDougall. Lie. from Pres. Cayuga, 
 April 7, '35; ord. as Ev., June 18, '35, missionary; to 2d Pres. 
 Long Island, Sept. 14, '36. 
 
 No. 91. William G. Bell. Cand., April 8, '35; lie. Oct. 
 5, '39; to Pres. Missouri, Jan. 15, '40. 
 
 No. 92. John M. Smith. Cand., Oct. 7, '35 ; lie. June 6, 
 '38; to Ohio, Dec. 3, '39; from Ohio, Sept. 18, '66; supply; name 
 stricken from the roll, April 26, '71. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 93 
 
 No. 93. Rev. W.m. Annax. From Pres. Huntingdon, 
 April 5, '36; inst. P. Sewickley, 2d Thursd. June, '36 — April 13, 
 '38; to Pres. Ohio, April 9, '39. 
 
 No. 94. Rev. Samuel Montgomery. From Pres. Blairs- 
 ville, April 5, '36 ; inst. P. Mt. Pleasant, last Tuesday April, 1836 ; 
 May 19. '40, ^vent to New School branch. 
 
 No. 95. Joseph H. Chambers. Cand., April 6, '36 ; lie. 
 April 13, '38; to Steubenville, Feb. 7, '39. 
 
 No. 96. Rev. James Baber. From Pres. of Lexington, 
 Oct. 5, '36; supply. New Providence, i year; to Pres. Winche.s- 
 ter, Oct. I, '39. 
 
 No. 97. Rev. John L. Hawkins. From Pres. Washing- 
 ton, June 20, 37, and inst. P. Connellsville same day; had been 
 stated supply from Dec. 15, '31 ; res. April 12, '43 ; to Pres, Kas- 
 kaskia, Oct. 6, '46. 
 
 No. 98. Jacob Pentzer. Cand., Oct. 5, '37; lie. April 16, 
 '40; to Pres. Miami, Oct. 6, '41. 
 
 No. 99. James Davis. Licentiate from Pres. Blairville, 
 April II, 1838; ord. and inst. P. Morgantown, Oct. 4, '37 — April 
 10, '55; to Pres. Blairsville, Oct. 22, '56. 
 
 No. 100. George Plumer. Cand., April 12, 1838 ; discon- 
 tinued, April 17, '40. 
 
 No. loi. EzEKiEL QuiLLEN. Licentiate from Pres. New 
 Brunswick, Oct. 2, 1838 ; ord. Oct. 4, '38; inst. P. Clarksburg, 
 Dec, '38 — April 15, '52; to Pres. Washington, April 12, '53. 
 
 No. 102. Thomas D. Martin. Licentiate from Pres. New 
 Brunswick, Oct. 3, 1838; ord. and inst. P. Brownsville, Jan. 4, 
 '43 — April 13, '52; to Vincennes, Oct. 5, '69. 
 
 No. 103. Wm. W. McLain. Cand., Oct. 3, 1838; lie. Oct. 
 2, '39; ord. as Ev., Nov. 18, '40; supplied in Pres. and inst. P. Mt. 
 Pleasant, 2d Saturday of May, '52 ; died, Nov. 10, '55. 
 
 . No. 104. William Eaton. Cand., Oct. 3, 1838; lie. April 
 16, '40; ord. and inst. P. Round Hill, June 17, '41 ; McKeesport, 
 
194 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 '41 ; res. both, April 9, '44; dis. to Pres. Steubenville, Sept. 24, 
 '44; from Pres. Lake, Oct. 20, '55; inst. P. Clarksburg, Oct. 30 — 
 July I, '57; to Pres. Steubenville, April 13, '38. 
 
 No. 105. Charles Martin. Cand., April 11, 1839. 
 
 No. 106. Edward F. Brooks. Cand., Oct. 3, 1839; ^^ 
 Pres. Raritan, April 13, '41. 
 
 No. 107. Rev. Joseph B. McKee. From Pres. Carlisle, 
 Dec. 3, 1839, and inst. P. Sewickley; res. April 12, '43 ; supply at 
 Mt. Washington, Brown's ch. and Indian Creek; died, April 18, 
 '69. 
 
 No. 108. John McClintock. Licentiate from Washing- 
 ton, Dec. 3, 1839; ord. and inst. P. New Providence, Jan. 15, '40; 
 Jefferson, June 29, '41; April 11, '49, whole time to New Provi- 
 dence. 
 
 No. 109. Smith F. Grier. Cand., Jan. 14, 1840; to Pres. 
 of New Brunswick, Oct. 6, '41. 
 
 No. no. J. Adley Calhoun. Cand., April 15, 1840; lie. 
 April II, '44; ord. and inst. P. Round Hill, June 10, '45 — '48; 
 died spring of '48. 
 
 No. III. Rev. Samuel Wilson. From. Pres. Hunting- 
 don, April 9, 1839, ^'"''^ ^'^st. P. Dunlap's Creek, Nov. 17, '40, 
 two-thirds time and McClellandtown one-third time, 3d Wednes- 
 day May, '41; res. April 28, '69; to Pres. Bloomington, Oct. 5, 
 '68; D. b. 
 
 No. 112. James I. Brownson. Licentiate from Pres. Car- 
 lisle, Oct. 6, 1841; ord. and inst. P. Mt. Pleasant, Nov. 25. '41; 
 Greensburg, Nov. 26, '41; res. Jan. 16, '48; to Washington Pres. 
 same date ; D. D. 
 
 No. 113. Joseph Campbell. Cand., Oct. 6, 1841; discon- 
 tinued, Oct. 5, '48. 
 
 No. 114. Rev. Andrew Ferrier, D. D. From 2d Pres. 
 New York, Nov. 29, 1842; inst. P. Uniontown, Nov. 30 — Aug. 6, 
 '44 ; dis. to Free Church Pres. of Hamilton, Canada West, Oct. 8, 
 '45- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 95 
 
 No. 115. Wm. Reed. Cand., April 12, 1843; teaching in 
 Indiana, '45. 
 
 No. 116. Wm. W. Woodend. Cand., from Pres. Blairs- 
 ville, Oct. 3, 1843 ; lie. Oct. 5, '43; to Pres. Steubenville, April 11, 
 '44; D. D. 
 
 No. 117. Rev. James Black, From Pres. St. Clairsville, 
 Sept. 24, 1844, S. Supply; to Pres. Winchester, April 10, '49. 
 
 No. 118. James Black. Cand., Sept. 24, 1844; lie. April 
 15, '52 ; taught in Dunlap's Creek Academy; ord. and inst. P. 
 Connellsville, June 14, '53 — Dec. 2, '59; dis. to Washington, Oct. 
 2, '60, as Prof. Washington College ; D. D., LL. D. 
 
 No, 119. John G. Howell. Licentiate from Pres. Car- 
 lisle, April 8, 1845 5 of<^- P- '^t Kingvvood, June 25, '46; supply 
 for region also ; died, 1856, 
 
 No. 120. Samuel Porter Skiles. April 9, 1845; discon- 
 tinued, April 12, '55. 
 
 No. 121. William C. Smith. Cand., April 10, 1845; to 
 Pres. New Albany, April 14, '52, 
 
 No. 122. Rev. Richard Graham. From Pres. Chillicothe, 
 June 10, 1845 ; 'list. P. Sewickley, June 12, '45 — April 10, '50; to 
 Pres. Maumee, Oct. ist, '50. 
 
 No. 123. William P. Harshe. Licentiate from Pres. 
 Washington, June 10, 1845; ord. and inst. P. Fairmount, Aug. 
 27, '45 — April 13, '53; to Pres. Des Moines, Oct. 20, '53. 
 
 No. 124. Ross Stevenson. Licentiate from Pres. Ohio, 
 June 10, 1845 ; ord. and inst. Connellsville, June 13, '45 — Oct. 6, 
 '52; to Pres. Blairsville same date; D. D. 
 
 No. 125. William D. Moore. Licentiate from Pres. Ohio. 
 June 10, 1845 ; ord. and inst. P. Long Run, June II, '45 — Sept. 15, 
 49; P. Mt. Pleasant and Greensburg, Oct. 2, '49; res. Mt. Pleas- 
 ant, April 9, '51, whole time to Greensburg; res. June 14, '53; to 
 Pres, Mississippi same day ; S. Supply Long Run, '64-66 ; chap- 
 lain in '65, 
 
196 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 No. 126. Rev. Griffith Owen. From Pres. Philadelphia, 
 June 13, 1845; inst. P. Uniontovvai, June 17, '45 — Nov. ii, '47, 
 and dis. to Pres. Philadelphia same day. 
 
 No. 127. John J. Neel. Cand., April 13, 1847; ^'c. Oct. 
 4, '48; died, Feb. 10, '52. 
 
 No. 128. Wm. a. Fleming. Cand., April 13, 1847; lie. 
 April 15, '52 ; to Pres. Peoria, Oct. 4, '53. 
 
 No. 129. Prosper Hubbard Jacob. Licentiate from Pres. 
 Beaver, June 2, 1847 ; ord. and inst. P. McKeesport, June 3, '47 — 
 Oct. 3, '51; to Pres. Coshocton, April 13, '52. 
 
 No. 130. Joseph Gans. Cand., June 3, 1847. 
 
 No. 131. Oliphant M. Todd. Cand., April 13, 1848; lie. 
 April II, '49; to Cincinnati, April 10, '50. 
 
 No. 132. Rev. Moses A. Williams. From Pres. Georgia, 
 Sept. 14, 1849; Ji^st. P. Uniontown, Nov^ 21, '49 — April 13, '52; 
 to Pres. California, Oct. 7, '57. 
 
 No. 133. Rev. Lewis A. Lowrie. From Pres. Union C. 
 P. ch., Sept. 5, 1849; <^is. to West Lexington, Ky., April 10, '50. 
 
 No. 134. Rev. George Dunham. From Pres. Flint River, 
 Sept. 17, 1849; supplied in Pres. ; to Pres. North Mississippi, 
 April 15, '57. 
 
 No. 135. Wm. J. Burchinal. Cand., Sept. 19, 1849; P^''" 
 mitted to relinquish study, because of impaired health ; to Pres. 
 Palmyra, Oct. 4, '65. 
 
 No. 136. Rev. James R. Hughes. From Pres. Steuben- 
 ville, Oct. 20, 1849; inst. P. Rehoboth, Nov. 8, '49 — Dec. 28, '64, 
 and same day to Blairsville Pres. 
 
 No. 137. Nathaniel B. Lyons. Cand, April 10, 1850; 
 lie. April 12, '55 ; to Pres. New Lisbon, April 10, '56. 
 
 No. 138. Rev. Peter Hassinger. From Huntingdon, 
 April 8, 1851 ; S. Supply Somerset and Jenner; to Pres. Kaskas- 
 kia, April 12, '53. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 1 9/ 
 
 No. 139. Rev. Joseph Smith. From Ohio, June lo, 185 1 ; 
 inst. P. Round Hill same day; res. Jan. i, '56; inst. P. Greens- 
 burg, April 9, '56; set over to Blairsville, Oct., '58; D. D. 
 
 No. 140. Rev. Frederick A. Shearer. From Pres. Rich- 
 land, June 10, i85i;inst. P. Long- Run, June 19, '51 — Oct. 3, 
 '51; to Pres. Richland, April 14, '52; D. D. 
 
 No. 141. Samuel Hazlett. Cand., Sept. 17, 1851. 
 
 No. 142. James Caldwell. Cand.. April 13, 1852; lie. 
 April 13, '54; to Pres. Des Moines, April 10, '55. 
 
 No. 143. Alonzo Linn. Cand., April 13. 1852 ; lie. May 3, 
 '54; taught in Lafayette College; Prof, in Jeff. College and in 
 Washington and Jefferson College; to Washington Pres., '70; 
 Ph. D., LL. D. 
 
 No. 144. Rev. Cyrus C. Riggs. From Pres. Steubenville, 
 May 18, 1852 ; inst. P. Sewickley, June ist — April 9, '61 ; dis. at 
 same time to Pres. Beaver; D. D. 
 
 No. 145. Rev. Nathaniel West. From Pres. Ohio, Oct. 
 5, 1852; inst. P. McKeesport, May 3, '54 — July i, '56, and dis. 
 to Pres. Philadelphia ; D. D. 
 
 No. 146. John A. Mearns. Licentiate from Pres. New 
 Brunswick, Oct. 5, '52; ord. and inst. P. Long Run, Oct. 19, '52; 
 died, June 3, '54. 
 
 No. 147. Rev. James H. Callen. From Pres. Erie, April 
 13, 1853; '"St. P. Uniontown, April 27, '53 — April 10, '55 ; to ist 
 Pres. Philadelphia, Aug. i, '55. 
 
 No. 148. Joseph Mateer. Cand., from Pres. New Bruns- 
 wick, April 13, 1853 ; lie. April 14; to Pres. Clarion, Sept. 20, '54. 
 
 No. 149. Robert M. Wallace. Licentiate from Pres. 
 Newton, June 14, 1853; ord. and inst. P. Brownsville and Little 
 Redstone, June 15 — Feb. 17, '64, and dis. to Pres. Huntingdon 
 same date. 
 
 No. 150. Caleb W. Finley. Cand., June 14, 1853; lie. 
 May 16, '55; to Pres. Columbus, Oct. 2, '55. 
 
198 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 No. 151. James R. Moore. Licentiate from Pres. Wash- 
 ington, Oct. 5, 1853; engaged in teaching; dis. to West Vir- 
 ginia, May, '63. 
 
 No. 152. Rev. David Kennedy. From Pres. Ohio, April 
 12, 1854; inst. P. Greensburg, 19 April — Aug. i, '55; to 1st Pres. 
 New York, Nov. 13, '55. 
 
 No. 153. Hugh O. Rosborough. Licentiate rec'd, from 
 Pres. Washington, Sept. 20, 1854; ord. and inst. P. George's 
 Creek, June 5, '55; preached % time at Mt. Washington for 4 
 years; at Spring Hill Furnace, 12 years; at Greensboro, ii years; 
 still P. at George's Creek. 
 
 No. 154. Thomas P. Speer. Licentiate rec'd, from Pres. 
 Ballebay, Ireland, Sept. 20, 1854; dis. to Pres. Huntingdon, June 
 
 5/55- 
 
 No. 155. Francis H. Power. Cand., Sept. 20, 1854; lie. 
 May 16, '55 ; died, Oct. 16, '63; was in service of Christian Com- 
 mission. 
 
 No. 156. Robert C. Stewart. Cand., Sept. 20, 1854. 
 
 No. 157. Alexander McGaughey. Licentiate from 2d 
 Pres. New York, April 10, 1855 ; ord. and inst P. Long Run, 
 May 16, '55 — April 29, '63, and dis. to Blairsville Pres. same time. 
 
 No. 158. James H. Flanagan. Cand., April 11, 1855; lie. 
 Nov. 19, '56; ord. as Ev. to labor in Mission Ty. of Pres. in Va., 
 April 14, '58; set over to Pres. West Virginia, May, '63. 
 
 No. 159. John C. Hench. Cand., April 11, 1855 ; lie. April 
 26, '65 ; ord. and inst. P. Tent ^ time and Mt. Washington S. S., 
 Nov. 6, '66 — April 28, '69; to Pres. Western Reserve, Oct. 5, '69. 
 
 No. 160. Rev. Henry W. Biggs. From Pres. Vincennes, 
 Oct. 3, 1885 ; inst. Morgantown, Nov. 2, '55; set over to West 
 Virginia, May, 1863. 
 
 No. 161. Daniel Williams. Licentiate Pres. New Lis- 
 bon, Oct. 2, 1855 ; ord. and inst. P. West Newton, Nov. 13, '55 — 
 April 15, '57 ; dis. to Pres. Carlisle, April 13, '59. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE, 1 99 
 
 No. 162. Rev. Wm. F. Hamilton. From Pres. Ohio, May 
 13, 1856, and inst. P. Uniontown, S. S. six months previous ; res. 
 May 31, '66; dis. to Pres. Blairsville, April 29, '68; D. D. 
 
 No. 163. Rev. Reuben Lewis. From Pres. Blairsville, 
 Sept. 19, 1856; P. Fairmount, Nov. 14, '56 — April 12, '59; dis. to 
 Pres. Montgomery, Oct. 4, '59; deceased. 
 
 No. 164. James Martin. Licentiate 2d Pres. Philadelphia, 
 Oct. 22, 1856 and ord. and inst. P. Round Hill, Nov. 19 — April 
 29, '63 ; dis. to Philadelphia same day. 
 
 No. 165. Robert F. Wilson. Licentiate from Pres. Hun- 
 tingdon, Oct. 22, 1856, and ord. and inst. P. McKeesport, Nov. 
 20 — May 14, '67; dis. to Pres. Carlisle, Jan. 21, '68, 
 
 No. 166. Samuel J. NiccoLLS. Cand., Oct. 6, 1857; lie. 
 April 14, '59; to Pres. Carlisle, Oct. 2, '60; D. D. 
 
 No. 167. Caleb B. Downs. Cand., Oct. 6, 1857; to Pres. 
 Richland, May 9, '60. 
 
 No. 168. David Henry Barron. Licentiate from Pres. 
 Allegheny City, April 13, 1858 ; ord. and inst. P. Mt. Pleasant, 
 May 13, '58 — Aug. 6, '61 ; dis. same date to Pres. Huntingdon; 
 D. D. 
 
 No. 169. Wm. Ward Campbell. Ch. of Uniontown 
 cand., April 13, 1858 ; lie. April 14, '59 ; ord. Oct. 5, '59 ; inst. P. 
 Fairmount, Nov., '59 — May 14, '62 ; set over to West Va., May, 
 •63. 
 
 No, 170. Robert Braden Moore. Ch. of Tyrone cand., 
 April 13, 1858; lie. Oct. 4, '59; dis. to Pres. Huntingdon or Car- 
 lisle, Oct. 3, i860; D. D. 
 
 No. 171. Watson Russell. Licentiate from Pres. Car- 
 lisle, Oct. 6, 1858; ord. as Ev. Nov. 11, '58; dis. to Pres, Wash- 
 ington, Oct 2, '60. 
 
 No. 172. Luther L. Belden, Cand, from Ch. of Mor- 
 gantown, Oct. 6, 1858; lie. April 29, '63 ; dis. to Pres. Erie, Oct. 
 4, '64, 
 
200 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 No. 173. George C. Shepherd. Cand. from Ch. Mor- 
 gantown, Oct. 6, 1858. 
 
 No. 174. Benjamin F. Myers. Licentiate from Pre.s. Al- 
 legheny City, April 13, 1859; ord. and inst. P. Somerset and Jen- 
 ner, June 23, '59 — May 9, '60; dis. same time to Pres. Carlisle. 
 
 No. 175. George Paull. Cand. from Ch. of ConnelLsville, 
 Oct. 3, i860; lie. April 10, '61; ord. Sept. 16, '63, as Ev. and 
 Missionary; dis. to Pres. Corisco, Africa, Oct. 5, '64. 
 
 No. 176. Noah H. G. Fife. Ch. of Round Hill cand., 
 April 10, 1861 ; lie. June 10, '62; ord. and inst. P. ConnelLsville, 
 April 29, '63 ; res. Nov. 29, '67; P. Long Run, June 23, '68; res. 
 Oct. 31, '73, and dis. to Pres. Rock River same time. 
 
 No. 177. Samuel L. Campbell. Licentiate from Pres. Al- 
 legheny City, Oct. I, 1861; dis. to Pres. Allegheny, April 24, 
 '66 ; changed to Potomac. 
 
 No. 178. James G. Patterson. Ch. of Brownsville, cand. 
 rec'd, April 22, 1862; lie. April 24, '67; dis. to Pres. S. Minne- 
 sota, Sept. 8, '68 ; rec'd from Pres. Iowa, April 24, 'tj ; dis. to 
 Pres. Columbus, June 27, 'yj. 
 
 No. 179. John C. McClintock. Ch. of New Providence 
 cand., April 22, 1862 ; lie. April 26, '65; dis. to Pres. Iowa, Aug. 
 29, '65 ; D. D. 
 
 No. 180. John Br-A.nch. Licentiate from Pres. Lexington, 
 July 8, 1862 ; ord. as Ev., July 9, '62 ; set over to Pres. West Va., 
 May, '63. 
 
 No. 181. John L. Lutz. Of Rehoboth Ch. cand., Oct. 8, 
 1862; lie. Oct. 5, '64; to Pres. Burean, Sept. 18, '66. 
 
 No. 182. Rev. John M. Barnett. From Pres. St. Paul, 
 Nov. 4, 1862, and inst. P. Mt. Pleasant; had preached there from 
 Jan. 7 ; res. Oct. 6, '69; P. Connellsville, May 17, '70, till May 31, 
 '82 ; res. to become Financial Secretary of W. & J. College. 
 
 No. 183. Fred. B. Welty. Cand. April 29, 1863; lie. 
 April 23, '72; ord. Ev., April 24, '72; dis. to Pres. Wyoming, 
 Aug. 23, '72. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE, 201 
 
 No. 184. M. S. C. KiNKAiD. Cand., Oct. 6, 1863 ; lie. April 
 
 26, '65 ; died, March 25, '66. 
 
 No. 185. Wm. L. Boyd. Licentiate from Pres. St. Clairs- 
 ville, Oct. 6, 1863 ; ord. and inst. P. Sewickley, Nov. 3, '63 ; P. 
 Tyrone, June, '64 ; res. April 23, 'Gj; P. Round Hill, May 17, 
 '67 — Oct. 5, '70; dis. to Pres. Bloomington, Oct. 4, '71. 
 
 No. 186. J. Logan Sample. Licentiate from Pres. Phila- 
 delphia, Nov. 3, 1863; ord. and in.st. P. Round Hill, April 27. '64 
 — June 14, '66; dis. to Saltsburg Pres, April 23, '67. 
 
 No. 187. Rev. O. H. Miller. From Pres. Blairsville, 
 April 26, 1864; P. West Newton, May 9, '64 — Oct. 5, '69 ; by re- 
 construction act of '70. made a member of Carlisle Pres. 
 
 No. 188. Wm. C. Kuhn. Cand. from Pres. Ohio, April 
 
 27, 1864; lie. April 26, '65; to Pres. Huntingdon, Oct. 2, '67. 
 
 No. 189. John W. Gilmore. Cand. from Pres. Dubuque, 
 Oct. 4, 1864; lie. Oct. 5, '64; to Pres. W^ashington, April 24, '66. 
 
 No. 190. RoBT. H. Cunningham. Rehoboth cand., Oct. 
 4. 1864; lie. April 25, '66; to Pres. S. Minnesota, Oct. 2, '6^. 
 
 No. 191. Albert J. Caldwell. Rehoboth, cand., Oct. 4, 
 1S64; lie. April 25, "66; to Pres. Leavenworth, Jan. 21, '68. 
 
 No. 192. Joseph H. Stevenson. Licentiate from Pres. 
 Sidney, Oct. 5, 1864; ord. and inst. P. Brownsville and Little 
 Redstone, Oct. 14, '64 — April 28, '68; dis. to Pres. Huntingdon, 
 April 29, '68; from Pres. Washington, May, '"j^; S. S. Sewickley 
 and Tyrone; P. Tyrone, Nov. 14, '76; Scottdale, April 13, '"jy; 
 res. June 12, '83 ; dis. to Pres. Cairo, Oct. '83. 
 
 No. 193. Allen A. Hough. Brownsville, cand., April 26, 
 
 1865 ; lie. April 24, '67 ; to Pres. , April 27, '70; rec'd 
 
 from Pres. Steubenville, Sept 21, '81 ; P. Pleasant Unity, Oct. ii, 
 '81 — Sept. 29, '86; dis. to Pres. Blairsville, April, '87. 
 
 No. 194. Rev. Loval Y. Graham. From Pres. Blairsville, 
 Oct. 3, 1865; P. Rehoboth, Oct. 11 — Sept. 25, '71, and dis. to 
 Pres. Philadelphia Central same time; D. D. 
 
202 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 No. 195. Eben. B. Caldwell. Sewickley, cand., Oct: 4, 
 1865; He. Jan. 22, '68; to Pres. Wooster, April 27, '69; deceased. 
 
 No. 196. Rev. W. W. Ralston. From Pres. Baltimore, 
 April 24, 1867; inst. P. Uniontown, April 28, '6"] — Oct. i, '72; 
 dis. to Pres. Dayton, Oct. 2, '72; D. D. 
 
 No. 197. Rev. A. B. Fields. From Pres. Westmoreland 
 U. P., Oct. I, 1867; P. Connellsville, Feb. ii, '68 — June i, '69; 
 dis. Oct. 5, '69, to Pres. Findley; rec'd from Pres. Clarion, April 
 19, '81 ; S. S. Brownsville, June, '81, for two years; dis. to Pres. 
 Pueblo, June, '83; deceased. 
 
 No. 198. Rev. J. K. Andrews. From Pres. Steubenville, 
 Oct. 16, 1868; P. Sewickley, Dec. 8, '68— April 26, '71, and dis. 
 to Pres. Shenango same time. 
 
 No. 199. Jos. Rogers Wilson. Dunlap's Creek, cand., 
 Oct. 16, 1868; lie. April 28, '69; to Pres. Bloomington, Oct. 4, 
 '70; D. D. 
 
 No. 200. H. Oliphant Gibbons. Ch. of Canonsburg, 
 cand., April 27, 1869; lie. April 28, '75 ; dis. Pres. Baltimore, Oct. 
 3. '76. 
 
 No. 201. Rev. E. P. Lewis. From Pres. Highland, April 
 27, '69; S. S. Brownsville; dis. to Washington Pres., April 24, '73. 
 
 No. 202. Rev. G. M. Hair. From Pres. Baltimore, Oct. 6, 
 1869; P. McKeesport, Nov. 9, '69 — Aug. 20, '72; P. Rehoboth, 
 Dec. 20, '72 — June i, '74; dis. '74; deceased. 
 
 No. 203. Rev. James Power Fulton. From Pres. Beaver, 
 Nov. 2, 1869, and inst. P. Dunlap's Creek and McClellandtown; 
 res. Oct. 2, '78 ; dis. to Pres. Larned, Kansas, April 22, '79. 
 
 No. 204. Rev. George Scott. From Pres. Steubenville, 
 April 27, 1870; S. S. Little Redstone; dis. to Pres. Allegheny, 
 June 27, '71. 
 
 No. 205. Rev. Henry Fulton. From Pres. Zanesville, 
 April 27, 1870; P. West Newton, June 12, '70 — June 4, '74; dis. 
 to Pres. Blairsville, Oct. 21, '76. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 203 
 
 No. 206. John McMillan, D. D. From Ref. Pres. of 
 Pittsburg, June 16, 1870, and inst. P. Mt. Pleasant and Pleasant 
 Unity; res. Pleasant Unity, April 25, '71 ; whole time to Mt. P., 
 town and country; res. Mt. Pleasant, Oct. 8, '73; whole time to 
 Mt. Pleasant Reunion; res. Dec. 24, '78; dis. to Pres. Philadel- 
 phia, Jan. 28, '79. 
 
 No. 207. Robert H. Fulton. Brownsville Ch., cand., 
 Oct. 4, 1870; lie. April 26, '71 ; to Pres. Baltimore, April 24, '72 ; 
 D D. 
 
 No. 208. Rev. Asahel Bronson, D. D. From Pres. Troy, 
 April 25, 1871 ; S. S. for Jefferson, '7-; S. S. Mt. Vernon, till '80; 
 preached one or two years in W. Va. ; H. R., April '19, '81 ; died, 
 Dec. 2S, '82. 
 
 No. 209. Rev. Thomas S. Parke. From Pres. Allegheny, 
 April 26, 1871 ; inst. P. Tyrone and Harmony, June 27, '71 ; res. 
 H., April 23, '73 ; res. Tyrone, April 29, '75 ; S. S. Dawson, Sept. 
 19, '76; to Pres. Steubenville, April 24, 'yy. 
 
 No. 210. John S. Plumer. McKeesport Ch., Cand., April 
 
 26, 1 871; delayed by ill health ; dis. Pres. Allegheny, April 25, 
 '82. 
 
 No. 211. Rev. John Turbitt. From Oswego Cong. 
 Asso., June 27, 1871 ; supplied in Pres. two or three years; went 
 west ; wrote he could not preach for ill health ; name stricken 
 from roll as accepted minister, June 26, 'yj. 
 
 No. 212. J. D. Caldwell. Round Hill Ch., cand., June 
 
 27, 187 1 ; lie. April 23, '73 ; dis. '74. 
 
 No. 213. Rev. Wm. Edgar. From Pres. Blairsville, about 
 1870; S. S. Somerset and Jenner, till June, '72 ; outside bounds 
 of Pres. for some time; dis. to Pres. Pittsburg, Oct. 4, ''j6\ de- 
 ceased. 
 
 No. 214. Rev. Augustus Cone. From Pres. Highland, 
 Oct. 17, 1871 ; P. Pleasant Unity, spring of 'yi; res. June 17, '73 ; 
 dis. Dec. 6, '74- 
 
204 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 No. 215. Rev. Wm. F. Kean. From Pres. Allegheny. 
 April 23, 1872; declined call to Sewickley ; S. S. about 6 mos. ; 
 dis. to Pres. Blairsville, Dec. 31, '72; deceased. 
 
 No. 216. R. R. Gailey, Licentiate from Pres. Wooster, 
 April 24, 1872; ord. and inst. P. Little Redstone and Fayette 
 City, June 11, '72; res. Fayette, June 15, '75; ^^^- Little Red- 
 stone, June II, '79; inst. P. Laurel Hill, Sept. 12, '79; res. 
 March 13, '82; dis. Pres. Steubenville, April 24, '82. 
 
 No. 217. Wm. N. Sloan. Cand. from Pres. Wooster, 
 April 24, 1872; lie. April 24, '72; dis. to Pres. Pittsburg, April 
 22, '73. 
 
 No. 218. Rev. John B. Dickey. From Pres. Steubenville, 
 June II. 1872 ; inst. P. Round Hill, June 25; res. April 25, 'yj; 
 dis. to Pres. West Virginia, April 23, '78. 
 
 No. 219. Rev. George K. Scott. From Pres. Blairsville, 
 Oct. 21, '72; called to Sewickley, April 22, 'y^, ; not installed; S. 
 S. till about Dec. '73; dis. May 12, '74. 
 
 No. 220. Rev. James W. Wightman. From Pres. Pitts- 
 burg, Dec. 31, 1872, and inst. P. McKeesport; res. Aug. 14, 'yy, 
 and dis. to Pres. Louisville ; D. D. 
 
 No. 221. Wm. S. Fulton. Dunlap's Creek Ch., cand., 
 April 22, 1873; lie. April 29, '74; dis. to Pres. Erie, April 27, '75. 
 
 No. 222. Rev. John W. Martin, D. D. From Pres. Steu- 
 benville, April 23, 1873 ; S. Supply Tent and Fairchance, Oct., '73 > 
 dis. to Pres. Steubenville, March. 'y$ ; deceased. 
 
 No. 223. Rev. Samuel S. Gilson. From Pres. Louisville, 
 April 28, 1874; inst. P. Uniontown, May 2, '74 I 'G-'^- J'-"^e 10, '79; 
 dis. to Pres. Steubenville, Oct. 16, '80. 
 
 No. 224. Rev. J. W. Little. Rec'd Pres. Pittsburg, April 
 28, 1874; inst. P. Long Run, May 1 1, '74; I'es. May i, '75 ; dis. to 
 Pres. Allegheny, Oct. 29, '75. 
 
 No. 225. Wm. F. Ewing. Licentiate rec'd, from Pres. Kit- 
 tanning, April 29, 1874; ord. and inst. P. Mt. Pleasant, June 4, 
 '74; res. June 12, '83 ; died, Dec. 15, '83. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 205 
 
 No. 226. Wm. W. McLane. Licentiate rec'd, from Pres. 
 Kittanning, April 29, 1874; ord. and inst. P. Brownsville, May 
 13, '74; res. June 25, '78; dis. June 26, to Pres. of Steubenville. 
 
 No. 227. David B. Rogers. Licentiate rec'd, from Pres. 
 Steubenville, April 29, 1874; ord. and inst. P. Greensboro, May 
 12, '74; res. Dec. 29, '74; S. S., Tent and Fairchance and P., May 
 18, '75, till Nov. 14, '76, and dis. to Pres. Washington, same time; 
 rec'd from Pres. Steubenville, April, '84; P. Dunbar, '84 — July 9, 
 '86; dis. to Pres. Lehigh, same time. 
 
 No. 228. A. Fulton Boyd. Licentiate rec'd, from Pres. 
 Butler, April 29, 1874; ord. and inst. P. Pleasant Unity, June 26, 
 '74 ; res. April 25, 'yy ; inst. P. Rehoboth, Aug. 30, 'yy; res. Dec. 
 II, '83 ; dis. to Pres. Mahoning, same date. 
 
 No. 229. Rev. Abram B. Lowes. Rec'd Pres. Cincinnati, 
 Oct. 6, 1874; inst. P. Bellevernon, Oct. 28, '74; res, Oct. 3, '82; 
 dis. Pres. Pittsburg, Oct., '83. 
 
 No. 230. Jacob Ruble. Of Spring Hill Furnace Ch., 
 cand. rec'd, Oct. 7. 1874; lie. April 24, '78 ; ord. as Ev., June 11, 
 '70; S. S. one year at Sewickley ; inst. P., May 18, '80; su.spended, 
 Oct. 18, '81 ; restored, Sept., '88. 
 
 No. 231. Rev. Marcus Wish art. Rec'd from Pres. Pitts- 
 burg, Oct. 17, 1874; inst. P. Rehoboth, Oct. 28, '74; res. April 
 25, 'yy; dis. to Pres. Erie, Oct. 2, 'yy. 
 
 No. 232. Rev. John C. Meloy. Rec'd from Pres. Steu- 
 benville, Dec. 29, 1874; inst. P. West Newton, Dec. 29, '74. 
 
 No. 233. Rev. Robert T. Price. Rec'd from Pres. Alle- 
 gheny, April 27, 1875 ; inst. P. Dunbar, May 27, '75 ; res. May 
 15, '83; to Pres. Wooster, May, '83. 
 
 No. 234. Rev. John W. Scott, D. D. Rec'd from Pres. 
 Dayton, April 27, 1875 ; S. S. at Jefferson till Oct. 19, '81 ; H. R. 
 
 No. 235. Wm. L. Ledwith. Brownsville Ch., cand. rec'd, 
 April 29. 1875; lie. April 26, 'y6; dis. to Pres. Westminster, April 
 25. '77- 
 
 No. 236. Alex. C. Wilson, McClellandtown Ch., cand. 
 
206 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 rec'd, Oct. 6, 1875; lie. April 26, '76; dis. to Pres. Ottawa, April 
 23, '78. 
 
 No. 237. Rev. Wm. P. Moore. Rec'd, April 25, 1876, 
 from Pres. Allegheny ; inst. P. Long Run, June 13, '76; res. Jan. 
 2, '83 ; dis. to Pres. Wooster same day. 
 
 No. 238. Charles B. Wakefield. Bellevernon Ch., cand. 
 rec'd, April 26, 1876; lie. April 24, '78; S. S. Somerset, Jenner 
 and Mt, Washington; ord. and inst. P., June 7, '80; res. Oct. 6, 
 '80; inst. P. Fairchanee and Springhill Furnace, June 22, '81; 
 res. Nov. 15, '81 ; dis. to Pres. Erie, same day. 
 
 No. 239. WiNFiELD C. Scott. Dunlap's Creek Ch., cand. 
 rec'd, Oct. 21, 1876; lie. April 24, '78; dis. to Pres. Solomon, 
 Kansas, April 22, '79. 
 
 No. 240. George L. Deffenbaugh. George's Creek, cand. 
 rec'd, Oct. 21, 1816; lie. June 27, '"jy; ord. as Ev., Oct 2, '78; 
 Miss'y to Nez Perces Indians ; dis. to Pres. of Oregon same day. 
 
 No. 241. Rev. S. S. Bergen. From Pres. Austin, Texas, 
 Oct. 21, 1876; S. S. Somerset, Jenner and Mt. Washington; inst. 
 P. Tent and Fairchanee, Aug. 4, '78 ; inst. P. McClellandtown y^ 
 of time, July 19, '79; res. Fairchanee, June 8, '80; res. Tent and 
 McClellandtown, April i, '82; inst. P. Laurel Hill, Aug. 5, '82; 
 res. April 18, '88 ; dis. to Pres. Huntingdon, May, '88. 
 
 No. 242. Rev. Samuel McBkide. Rec'd Pres. of Newark, 
 Oct. 19, 1877; inst. P. McKeesport, ist, Nov. 13, ''j'j\ res. Nov. 
 II, '79; suspended, June 14, '81 ; name stricken from the roll, 
 Oct. 19, '82. 
 
 No. 243. Rev. Wm. G. Nevin. Rec'd Pres. of Mononga- 
 hela U. P., Nov, 13, 1877; P. Sewickley, Dec. 3, 'yy, till Dec. 24, 
 '78 ; P. Dunlap's Creek, between Jan. i and April 22, '79, till 
 April 24, '83; P. Brownsville, May 8, '83, till Sept. 24, '84; P. 
 Rehoboth 4th Tuesday Oct , '84, till Jan. 24, '%'] ; dis. to Shenan- 
 go Pres. same day. 
 
 No. 244. Rev. Robert White. Rec'd from Pres. North- 
 umberland, April 23, 1878; S. S. Pleasant Unity till Oct. 6, '80; 
 called but not installed; dis. to Pres. Steubenville, Dec. 14, '80. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 20/ 
 
 No. 245. George D. Buchanan. Cand. rec'd, from Pres. 
 of Marion, April 22. 1879; called to Round Hill ; S. S. for some 
 months ; dis. to Pres. of Baltimore, Oct. 8, '79. 
 
 No. 246. Rev. A. S. Milholland. Rec'd from Pres. 
 Wooster, April 22, '79; S. S. Brownsville, called but not install- 
 ed; inst. P. Uniontown, Jime 15, '80; D. D. 
 
 No. 247. John I. Blackburn. Rehoboth, cand., Oct. 2, 
 1878; lie. April 28, '80; dis. to Pres. Blairsville, April 19, '81. 
 
 No. 248. Harry O. .Scott. Mt. Pleasant Reunion Ch., 
 cand. rec'd, June ii, 1879; lie. same day; dis. to Pres. Nebraska 
 City, Oct. 5. '80. 
 
 No. 249. Rev. James D. Shanks. Rec'd from Pres. Steu- 
 benville, Jan. 20, 1880, and inst. P. Round Hill same day; res. 
 Dec. 1 1, '83 ; dis. same time to Pres. Philadelphia Central. 
 
 No. 250. Rev. Charles C. B. Duncan. Rec'd from Pres. 
 West Virginia, April 27, 1880; inst. P. Little Redstone, May 20, 
 '80; res. June i, '82; S. S. Somerset and Jenner till Sept. 23, '85, 
 and Mt. Washington, April, '85 ; dis to Pres. Peoria, Sept. 23, '85. 
 
 No. 251. Rev. S. L. Finney. Rec'd from Pres. WestChes- 
 ter, April 28, 1880; inst. P. Mt. Pleasant Reunion, May 13, '80; 
 res. Nov. i, '82 ; dis. to Pres. W. Virginia, Oct. 'S^,; deceased. 
 
 No. 252. Rev. George N. Johnston. Rec'd from Pres, 
 Steubenville, Oct. 5, 1880; inst. P. McKeesport. Dec. 21, '80 ; res. 
 April 22, '84, and dis. to Pres. Pittsburg same date. 
 
 No. 253. Charles P. Cheeseman. Plaingrove Ch., cand. 
 rec'd, April 19, 1881 ; lie. June 19, '81 ; ord. and inst. P. Long 
 Run, June 25, '83 ; S. S. Mt. Vernon, April, '85. 
 
 No. 254. Archibald B. Herries. McKeesport Ch., cand. 
 rec'd, June 14, 1881 ; lie. April 25, '83 ; ord. and inst. P. Leisen- 
 ring, April 22, '84, till Aug. 17, '85 ; dis. to Pres. Bloomington, 
 Sept., '85. 
 
 No. 255. Wm. Rhodes Ruble. Springhill Furnace Ch., 
 cand. rec'd, June 14, 1881 ; withdrew by advice a year or two af- 
 terwards. 
 
208 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 No. 256. F. M. Collier. McKeesport Ch., cand. rec'd, 
 Sept. 21, 1 88 1 ; lie. April 28, '86 ; dis to Pres. of Gunnison, Sept. 
 27, '^7. 
 
 No. 257. Rev. J. T. Crumrine. Rec'd from Cong'l Asso- 
 ciation of Worcester, Mass., June, 1882; P. Little Redstone and 
 Fayette City, June 26, '83 — Sept. 23, '85 ; dis. to Pres. Wellsbor- 
 ough same day. 
 
 No. 258. Rev. A. Z. McGogney. Rec'd from Pres. Blairs- 
 ville, Oct. 3, 1882; P. Connellsville, Oct. 25, '82— Sept. 28, '86; 
 dis. to Pres. Peoria same time. 
 
 No. 259. Rev. M. C. Bailey. Rec'd from Pres. Carlisle, 
 Oct. 3, '82; P. Tent, Fairchance and McClellandtown, Oct., '83; 
 Ph. D. 
 
 No. 260. Rev. Perrin Baker. Rec'd from Pres. Kittan- 
 ning, April, 1883 ; P. Bellevernon, April 24, '83. 
 
 No. 261. Rev. H. H. McMaster. Rec'd from Pres. Alle- 
 gheny, June, 1883; P. Dunlap's Creek, June, '83 — Sept. 25, '88, 
 and dis. to Pres. Ft. Dodge same time. 
 
 No. 262. Rev. John D. Owens. Rec'd from Pres. Hun- 
 tingdon, Oct. 1883 ; P. Sewickley, Oct. ii, '83 — April 28, '85 ; dis. 
 to Pres. Steubenville, Jan., '86. 
 
 No. 263. Rev. John M. Jenkins. Rec'd from Pres. Woos- 
 ter; Oct., 1883; P. Mt. Pleasant Reunion, Oct. 16, '83 — April 13, 
 '85 ; dis. to Pres. Melbourne, Australia, same time. 
 
 No. 264. Rev. E. S. Robinson. Rec'd from Pres. Blairs- 
 ville, April, 1884; P. Scottdale, May 8, '84— Jan. 25, '86; dis. to 
 Pres. Portsmouth same day. 
 
 No. 265. Rev. M. H. Bradley. Rec'd from Pres. Pitts- 
 burg, Sept., 1884; P. Mt. Pleasant, Oct. 7, '84— April 28, '86; 
 dis. to Pres. Lima, Sept., '86. 
 
 No. 266. Rev. J. J. McCarrell, Rec'd from Pres. St. 
 Clairsville, Sept., 1884; inst. P. McKeesport, fall of '84. 
 
 No. 267. Rev. N. G. White. Rec'd from Pres. Hunting- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 20g 
 
 don, April, 1885 ; supply at Dawson, Tyrone and Wheeler Mis- 
 sion, Connellsville; H. R. 
 
 No. 268. Rev. Brainerd T. DeWitt. Rec'd from Pres. 
 Erie, April, 1885 ; P. Round Hill, May 27, '85. 
 
 No. 269. Rev. S. E. Elliott. Rec'd from Pres. Southern 
 Dakota. April, 1886; P. Mt. Pleasant Reunion, May 10, '86. 
 
 No. 270. Alex. S. Hunter. Licentiate, from Pres. Wash- 
 ington, April 28, 1886. 
 
 No. 271. H. C. Morledge. Licentiate, from Pres. Steu- 
 benville; rec'd, April 27, 1886; ord. and inst. P. Leisenring, June 
 17, '86. 
 
 No. 272. George P. Donehoo. Licentiate Pres. Pittsburg, 
 rec'd, Sept. 28, 1886; ord. and inst. P. Mt. Pleasant, Oct. 8, '86. 
 
 No. 273. Rev. Boyd M. Kerr. Rec'd from Pres. Woos- 
 ter, April, 1887; S. S. Brownsville i year; inst. P. May 2, '8S. 
 
 No. 274. Robert F. Smith. Licentiate from Pres. She- 
 nango ; rec'd and ord.. May 26, 1887; inst. P. Pleasant Unity, 
 June 1 1, '87. 
 
 No. 275. A. W. Emmons. Lie. April 27, 1887; ord. and 
 inst. P. Sewickley, May 26, 'Sy. 
 
 No. 276. Rev. W. A. Edie. Rec'd from Pres. Beaver Val- 
 ley, U. P., and inst. P. Connellsville, May 19, 1887. 
 
 No. 277. Rev. Z. B. Taylor. Rec'd from Pres. Clarion, 
 May, 1887; P. Scottdale, July 13, 'Sy. 
 
 No. 278. Rev. S. F. Farmer, D. D. Rec'd from Pres. 
 Highland and inst. P. Rehoboth, June 30, 1887. 
 
 No. 279. Rev. Wm. G. Stewart. Rec'd from Pres, Alle- 
 gheny, Sept., 1887; P. Dunbar, Oct. 18, '87. 
 
 No, 280. Rev. C. J. Forsythe. Rec'd from Pres. Balti- 
 more, April, 1888; P. Greensboro and Jefferson, May 23, '88, 
 
 No, 281, Rev. Joseph L. Hunter. Licentiate rec'd, from 
 Pres. Shenango ; ord. and inst. P. Tyrone and Dawson, May 8, 
 1888. 
 
210 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 PRESENT MINISTERS AND CHURCHES. 
 
 MINISTERS AND LICENTIATES 
 
 John W. Scott, D. D., H. R. 
 N. Grier White, H. R. 
 John McCh'ntock, P. 
 S. F. Farmer, D. D., P. 
 H. O. Rosborough, P. 
 John M. Barnett, Fin. Sec. 
 Boyd M. Kerr, P. 
 A. S. Milholland, D. D., P. 
 John C. Meloy, P. 
 Brainerd T. DeWitt, P. 
 Wm. G. Stewart, P. 
 Joseph J. McCarrell, P. 
 Perrin Baker, P. 
 Wm. A. Edie, P. 
 Samuel E. ElHott, P. 
 M. C. Bailey, Ph. D.. P. 
 
 ADDRESS. 
 
 Washington, D. C 
 New Haven, Pa. 
 Carmichaels, Pa. 
 Bellevernon, Pa. 
 Smithfield, Pa. 
 Washington, Pa. 
 Brownsville, Pa. 
 Uniontown, Pa. 
 West Newton, Pa. 
 Elizabeth, Pa. 
 Dunbar, Pa. 
 McKeesport, Pa. 
 Bellevernon, Pa. 
 Connellsville, Pa. 
 Mt. Pleasant, Pa. 
 Fairchance, Pa. 
 
 CHURCHES. 
 
 Chas. P. Cheeseman. P. Circleville, Pa. 
 
 Z. B. Taylor, P. 
 C. J. Forsythe, P. 
 
 H. C. Morledge, P. 
 G. P. Donehoo, P. 
 Robert F. Smith, P. 
 A. W. Emmons, P. 
 Joseph L. Hunter, P. 
 
 Jacob Ruble. 
 
 J. B. Reed, Pres.W.Va., P. E. 
 
 New Providence, P. 
 Rehoboth, P. 
 George's Creek, P. 
 
 Brownsville, P. 
 
 Uniontown, P. 
 
 West Newton, P. 
 
 Round Hill, P. 
 
 Dunbar, P. 
 
 McKeesport, P. 
 
 Bellevernon, P. 
 
 Connellsville, P. 
 
 Mt. P. Reunion P. 
 
 Fairchance, P. 
 
 Tent, P. 
 
 McClellandtown, P. 
 
 Long Run, P. 
 
 Mt. Vernon, P. 
 
 Scottdale, P. 
 
 Greensboro, P. 
 
 Jefferson, P. 
 
 Leisenring, P. 
 
 Mt. Pleasant, P. 
 
 Pleasant Unity, P. 
 
 Sewickley, P. 
 
 Tyrone, P. 
 
 Dawson, P. 
 Wymp's Gap, Pa. 
 Laurel Hill, Pa. Laurel Hill, P. E. 
 
 Scottdale, Pa. 
 Greensboro, Pa. 
 
 Leisenring, Pa. 
 Mt. Pleasant, Pa. 
 Pleas'nt Unity, Pa. 
 West Newton, Pa. 
 Dawson, Pa. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 211 
 
 F. M. Collier, licensed, April 28, 1886; dismissed to the 
 Presbytery of Gunnison, Sept. 27, 1887. 
 
 Alex. S. Hunter, licentiate (in tr.) 
 
 Vacant : Dunlap'fi Creek, Spring Hill Furnace, Somerset, 
 Mt. Washington, Jenner, and Fayette City. 
 
 CANDIDATES. 
 
 H. H. Ryland, Spring Hill Furnace, Sept. 22, 1884. 
 
 C. L. V. McKee, Laurel Hill, April, 1885. 
 
 J. P. Blackburn, Rehoboth, April 28, 1886. 
 
 R. A. Herwick, Rehoboth, April 28, 1886. 
 
 Jacob Humbert, Tent, June 17, 1886. 
 
 J. B. Wallace, Mt. Pleasant, Sept. 29, 1886. 
 
 SKETCHES. 
 
 An earnest effort was made to secure likenesses of the early 
 fathers of the Presbytery and also members of more recent date. 
 This effort has only been partially successful. Of some there 
 were no likenesses in existence The original of Dr. Fairchild 
 was an old time daguerreotype, excellent at first and a precious 
 heirloom, but injured so as to prevent its being successfully 
 copied. Judge Ewing's phototype does not do him justice. It 
 was photographed from an oil painting and then phototyped. 
 
 The phototypes of Dr. Campbell and Joseph Paull will be 
 readily recognized by all who knew them. Of the excellence of 
 the steel engravings of Rev. Joel Stoneroad, Rev. George Paull, 
 Redstone's representative on Africa's soil and Hon. Jasper M. 
 Thompson, we need not speak. 
 
212 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 The brief sketches already given of Dr. Fairchild in the 
 histories of George's Creek and the Tent, renders but httle addi- 
 tional notice necessary. 
 
 Rev. H. O. Rosborough, the successor of Dr. Fairchild at 
 George's Creek, and a warm personal friend, .says: "Dr. Fair- 
 child was born at Hanover, N. J., May ist, 1795. He was the 
 youngest of six children. His father died when he was but 
 seven years old, and his training devolved on his mother, who 
 survived until 1824. She was a woman of remarkable gifts and 
 was greatly distinguished for the strength of her faith and her 
 unusual activity and usefulness in the Church of Christ. She 
 presented Ashbel in childhood to the Lord as an offering in the 
 work of the ministry and his education throughout was con- 
 ducted with this high and holy end in view. He began his clas- 
 sical studies in Morristown, N. J., when but thirteen years of age. 
 He spent one year in Princeton College, graduating in Septem- 
 ber, 181 3. He .studied Theology in Princeton Seminary and 
 was licensed by the Presbytery of New Jersey, April, 1816." 
 
 The following is a part of the action of the Presbytery of 
 Redstone in regard to Dr. Fairchild: 
 
 Resolved, ist, "That this Presbytery devoutly acknowledge 
 the hand of God in the removal from us and from his endeared 
 family and the field of his abundant labors and eminent useful- 
 ness, our beloved and venerated father, the Rev. Ashbel Green 
 Fairchild, who departed this life on the 30th of June, 1864, in 
 the seventieth year of his age and the forty-ninth of his public 
 labors in the Gospel. 
 
 Resolved, 2d, "That we regard the life and death of Dr. 
 Fairchild, so fruitful through grace, in righteousness and peace, 
 as bringing great glory to God and abounding good fruits to the 
 Church of Christ. We would especially note his writings pub- 
 lished by our Board, as 'The Great Supper,' 'Scripture Baptism,' 
 'Unpopular Doctrines' and 'What Presbyterians Believe,' which 
 discuss and defend the doctrines involved, with such ability and 
 popular effect. 'The Great Supper' has been translated and pub- 
 lished in the German language and has proved to be one of the 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 213 
 
 most popular works published by the Board, and is universally re- 
 garded as one of the very best definers of our peculiar doctrines 
 extant. 
 
 Resolved, 3d, "That * * * * such were his gifts of 
 understanding and memory ; his general information and discrim- 
 inating taste ; his knowledge of the Scriptures in the original 
 tongues and in our common version, and such his spiritual in- 
 sight of divine things and deep religious experience and fervency 
 of spirit, that his pulpit exercises were of the most pleasing and 
 edifiying character.'" 
 
 The Presbytery also speaks of his high social character, and 
 dignified, yet genial disposition, and kindly manner and attrac- 
 tive and instructive conversation. 
 
 REV. JOEL STONEROAD. 
 
 In addition to the sketch given in the supplement to the 
 History of Laurel Hill Church, we give an extract from the ad- 
 mirable memorial prepared by Rev. Wm. F. Hamilton, D. D., 
 who for a number of years was a fellow Presbyter and a neighbor 
 of Mr. Stoneroad's: 
 
 "Of the many exemplary traits which adorned the character 
 of Mr. Stoneroad as a Christian man and as a minister of the 
 Gospel, little need be said. He was very generally known 
 throughout this region, and none who knew him had any diffi- 
 culty in determining his real character. There was no conceal- 
 ment, no mystery enveloping him. It was felt by all that he was 
 just what he seemed to be, and that his character was that of an 
 honest, faithful, devoted servant of God in the ministry of his 
 Son Jesus Christ. If those most intimately acquainted with him 
 were a.sked to point out his distinguishing traits, they would 
 probably agree in mentioning two as more conspicuous than any 
 others. One of these was his thorough conviction and steadfast 
 maintenance of the infallible truth of all Scriptural teachings, and 
 consequently the truth of some doctrines which many refuse to 
 
214 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 accept. In the depths of his heart he was sincerely and unwa- 
 veringly orthodox. He honestly believed God's word, not as 
 doubtingly and compromisingly interpreted, but as clearly and 
 definitely formulated in the accepted creeds of the Church in 
 which it was his privilege to exercise his ministry. And this 
 gave character to his preaching. What he believed, he spake. 
 No truth was kept back because of men's enmity to it. Nothing 
 was suppressed because unpopular. Nothing was passed over 
 because difficult. Nothing was rejected because it confounded 
 human reason. He declared God's whole counsel, and did it 
 honestly, ingenuously. No one could say that there was any un- 
 certainty in the sound of the Gospel trumpet as blown by him. 
 The other most noticeable trait distinguishing him was his abun- 
 dant zeal in the ministry which he had received of the Lord Je- 
 sus, prompting him to such labors and hardships and self-deni- 
 als as fall within the experience of but a limited number of 
 Christ's ministers." 
 
 When the relation between Mr. Stoneroad and the Church 
 of Laurel Hill was dissolved, April 24th, 1878, on account of his 
 failing health, Presbytery 
 
 Resolved, ist, "That we recognize in our co-Presbyter a 
 brother beloved, who, for forty-eight years, has shown himself to 
 be a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, and a watchman 
 upon the walls of Zion, whose laborious, earnest and faithful ser- 
 vices, the Head of the church has largely blessed in the conver- 
 sion of souls, and in comforting and establishing believers in the 
 faith once delivered to the saints. 
 
 Resolved, 2d, "That our relations and intercourse with 
 Brother Stoneroad have been such as greatly to endear him to 
 us and furnish occasion to us to hold him in affectionate and de- 
 served remembrance. 
 
 Resolved, 3d, "That we deeply sympathize with him in his 
 feebleness and impaired health, and do earnestly pray that in 
 honorably retiring from a laborious and successful ministry, the 
 remnant of his days may be crowned with domestic and social 
 joys and with the sweet consolations of that Gospel of Peace 
 which he has proclaimed to others and above all with the com- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 21 5 
 
 forting presence of Him who has said: 'Lo I am with you al- 
 way, even unto the end of the world.' " 
 
 Mr. Stoneroad tarried a few years longer patiently waiting 
 for the salvation of God, until at length, having survived nearly 
 all the associates of his early ministry, he entered into rest on 
 the iith of August, 1884, in his 79th year. 
 ' "Servant of God, well done! 
 
 Rest from thy loved employ ; 
 The battle o'er, the vic'try won, 
 Enter thy Master's joy." 
 
 REV. GEORGE PAULL. 
 
 George Paull was the third son of Joseph and Eliza Lea 
 (Rogers) Paull and was born near Dunbar, Fayette county. Pa., 
 February 3d; 1837. Like so many of Pennsylvania's noblest 
 men his early life was spent on his father's farm. His early 
 training was in the home, the common and the Sabbath School. 
 He began his classical studies with Rev. Ross Stevenson, D. D., 
 pastor of Connellsville Presbyterian Church and continued them 
 in Dunlap's Creek Presbyterial Academy, and afterward 
 with Prof John Frazer, who became Professor of Math- 
 ematics in Jefferson College and a General in the Union army. 
 He entered Jefferson College at Canonsburg and graduated with 
 high credit in 1858, in the twenty-first year of his age. In the 
 spring of 1853, during a revival in College, he decided for Christ 
 and made a public profession of religion in the Church at Con- 
 nellsville. He spent three years at the Western Theological 
 Seminary and was ordained and devoted his life to mission work 
 in Africa. A very interesting memoir was written by his uncle, 
 Rev. Samuel Wilson, D. D., and published by the Presbyterian 
 Board, to which the reader is referred for information in regard 
 to his interesting, consecrated and useful, though brief life. The 
 action of Presbytery on his death is added to this notice. This 
 
2l6 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 action was reported by a Committee and adopted, October 19th, 
 1865. 
 
 "Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God, in His inscruta- 
 ble providence to remove by death from the field of Foreign 
 Missions a young brother greatly beloved, and who had shown 
 himself so eminently fitted by nature and grace for the great 
 work to which God and the church had called him; and whereas, 
 he was born and reared among us and by this Presbytery set 
 apart to the work of the ministry in a foreign missionary field; 
 and whereas, his self-consuming, untiring devotion to the Mas- 
 ter's cause not only reflected great honor upon the Gospel of 
 God, but also on this body by whom he was given to the foreign 
 service of the church ; therefore 
 
 "Resolved, ist. That while as a Presbytery we record with 
 gratitude to God the gift of one to the church so specially quali- 
 fied for the great work to which he had conscrated his life, we 
 would at the same time bow with profound submission to the 
 mysterious behest which summoned him so soon and so sudden- 
 ly from the service and labors of the church militarrt to the high- 
 er and holier service of the church triumphant. 
 
 "Resolved, 2d, That in the life and labors of our departed 
 brother, we recognize a spirit akin to that of a Brainerd, an Elli- 
 ott, a Schwartz — akin to the spirit of Him who said : 'The zeal 
 of thine house hath eaten me up' — a zeal for the salvation of 
 bleeding Africa, which prematurely and almost literally con- 
 sumed the vessel in which it burned — a love for the souls of men 
 and the glory of God, which many waters could not quench — 
 which quailed at no sacrifice however great, and could say with 
 the great Apostolic Missionary to the Gentiles, 'neither count I 
 my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with 
 joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, 
 to testify the Gospel of the grace of God.' 
 
 "Resolved, 3d, That while Presbytery would bewail the 
 loss to benighted Africa of so burning and shining alight, whose 
 inchoate and earliest labors on the mainland were signalized with 
 remarkable and immediate success in the conversion of souls, we 
 would also record our unfeigned condolence and sympathy with 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 21/ 
 
 the honored parents and other friends in the early demise of such 
 a relation and son, divinely assured that however great their loss 
 to him it was unutterable gain." Minutes Redstone Presbytery, 
 October 19th, 1865. 
 
 DR. CAMPBELL AND JUDGE EWING. 
 
 It is proper to add some additional items in regard to Dr. 
 Campbell and Judge Ewing. In the history of Uniontown 
 Church, prepared by Rev. S. S. Gilson, there is this record : 
 "October the 9th, 1825, is a date long to be remembered by this 
 congregation. It was then that the two young men, Dr. Hugh 
 Campbell and Nathaniel Ewing. Esq., came for the first time to 
 the Lord's Table. Together they followed Christ with reverence 
 and Godly fear for almost half a century. These men were prop- 
 erly regarded as the pillars of the church in their day, and it is 
 hardly possible now to unduly exalt their influence as Christian 
 citizens. They were also exceedingly useful in the higher courts 
 of the Church to which they were so frequently delegates. In- 
 deed, it came to be said in Presbytery in regard to the Commis- 
 sioners to the General Assembly, 'it was Dr. Campbell one year 
 and Judge Ewing the next.' Dr. Campbell was a member of the 
 famous General As.sembly which met in Pittsburg in 1838, at the 
 time of the disruption. A man of far more than ordinary abili- 
 ty, he made his influence felt in that body. During the discus- 
 sion he arose and made a remark or two which attracted atten- 
 tion. Some Doctor of Divinity made a remark which combed 
 him a little, and wanted to know who is 'this young David?' 
 
 "The doctor arose and said : 'I am a very humble el- 
 der from a very humble Church and a very humble Presbytery, 
 but I thank God I have the same rights on this floor as the most 
 learned Doctor of Divinity or the greatest lawyer here.' He 
 then proceeded to score his unfortunate antagonist in a speech of 
 wonderful keenness, which electrified the Assembly. He was an 
 excellent and impressive speaker and his addresses on the sub- 
 ject of Temperance were very eloquent.' " 
 
2l8 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 The following tribute was prepared by his life-long friend, 
 Nathaniel Ewing, and offered and adopted in session : "For 
 more than thirty-five years Dr. Campbell has exercised continu- 
 ously the office of Ruling Elder in this church with uniform ac- 
 ceptance and eminent ability and faithfulness. During this long 
 period his exemplary walk, the abundance of his benefactions, 
 exertions and prayers, and his diligent and scrupulous discharge 
 of official duty, contributed largely to the maintenance, growth 
 and establishment of the church. By the eminence of his gifts, 
 also, he was enabled to perform effective service for the general 
 interests of the Master's cause by sitting, on frequent occasions, 
 as a member in each of the the Superior Judicatories." 
 
 These words apply also with equal force to Judge Ewing as 
 descriptive of his life and service. For almost forty-one years 
 he was a member of the Session of Uniontown Ch.irch and very 
 often a member of some of the higher courts. The compiler of 
 this well remembers to hear his father speak of a General Assem- 
 bly of which Judge Ewing was a member. Some knotty ques- 
 tion was before the body. Difficulties increased and no one 
 seemed to know what to do, when Judge Ewing got up and in a 
 few minutes cleared away the difficulties, so that the Assembly 
 finished the business readily and properly. He acquired great 
 influence in the Assembly and perhaps the most important ser- 
 vice of this kind ever rendered was a report which he made on 
 the decision of Judge Rodgers, of the Nisi Prius Court at Phila- 
 delphia, against the Presbyterian Church. This report is record- 
 ed in full in the Minute Book of the Presbytery, covering six 
 pages. 
 
 Judge Ewing acquired large wealth and gave liberally to the 
 Lord without letting his right hand know what the left did. He 
 chiefly gave his benefactions while he lived and was personally 
 attentive to the wants of the poor of this community who were 
 brought to his notice. 
 
 He was President Judge of the County Court and a Ruling 
 Elder in the church, and his son, Hon. John K. Ewing, was also 
 President Judge and is a Ruling Elder in the same church. His 
 grandson, Nathaniel Ewing, is keeping up the succession, being 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 2I9 
 
 President Judt^e in the county and a Ruling Elder in the church 
 of his grandfather and his father. 
 
 JOSEPH PAULL. 
 
 Among all those who have served in the eldership of Red- 
 stone Presbytery, no man was more respected and beloved than 
 Joseph Paull. He descended from an honored ancestry. The 
 first records in the Paull family date back to 1765, eleven years 
 before the Declaration of Independence, and speak of George 
 Paull as a resident of Berkeley county, Va., who, with his wife, 
 Martha Irwin, four years later, in 1769, removed to Fayette coun- 
 ty, Pa., locating a tract of land, which has been transmitted from 
 father to son for four generations, and is still in possession of the 
 family. His son was Col. James Paull, Sr;, who was married to 
 Miss Elizabeth Rogers, and was a distinguished citizen of Fay- 
 ette county up to his death, which occurred in 1841. Joseph 
 Paull, the son of James and Elizabeth, was born in the old home- 
 stead, in November, 1808, and, with the exception of two or 
 three years, spent all his life in the place of his birth. He Avas 
 married, June 4th, 1833, to Miss Eliza Lea Rogers, by whom he 
 became the father of ten children, some of whom have attained 
 to prominent positions in the world; his second son, Aaron, 
 killed in the battle of Shiloh, was a rising young lawyer in the 
 State of Texas ; his third son, George, went as a missionary to 
 Africa, and died two years after his arrival, and his remains lie 
 buried on the Island of Corisco; his daughter, Mary Elizabeth, 
 is the wife of Rev. N. H. G. Fife, of Sterling, 111., one of the 
 most successful pastors in the State of Illinois; his son, Joseph 
 Rogers, is an Attorney-at-Law and Judge of the Circuit Court 
 in the city of Wheeling, Va., and his son James L., is a Ruling 
 Elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Connellsville, Pa. 
 Mr. Paull dated the beginning of his religious life from a Metho- 
 dist camp-meeting, where he was converted at the age of twenty- 
 one years. Soon after, he united with the Presbyterian Church 
 of Tvrone and afterwards with Laurel Hill. He was elected a 
 
220 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 Ruling Elder in the Presbyterian Church of Connellsville and 
 became a member of that church in 1832, and continued to ex- 
 ercise the office to which he was called until 1874. In the last 
 named year the Presbyterian Church of Dunbar was constituted 
 by the Presbytery of Redstone on the petition of the members 
 of Connellsville Church in that place and vicinity and Mr. Paull 
 was transferred as an elder to the new organization and served 
 with great efficiency up to the time of his death, February 14th, 
 1880. He was a man of rare intelligence, wise in counsel, care- 
 ful in the exercise of his official duties, and most exemplary as a 
 Christian. He was of the most Christ-like spirit, never failing 
 to impress any and all with whom he was brought in contact, 
 with the fact not only that there is a reality in the religion of 
 Jesus, but also that there is in it a beauty and power. The tones 
 of his voice, the benevolence of his countenance and the mani- 
 fest spirit of deep piety running through all his conversation, 
 gave an impression to those who were about him that they had 
 been in a most sacred companionship. His death was the result 
 of a complication of painful diseases, but through all his illness 
 his faith never for a moment wavered. The final scene resem- 
 bled the death of one of the old patriarchs; a weeping family, tri- 
 umphant faith in Christ, calm and peaceful resignation and de- 
 vout prayer from the lips of the dying father in Israel. He 
 more than once represented his church in Synod and was also a 
 member of the General Assembly. In the memorial year (though 
 his miss onary son was sleeping in the soil of the "Dark Conti- 
 nent") he gave a large thank offering to the Lord for the privilege 
 of having had a son in the Foreign Mission work. The prayer 
 of the writer is, that the spirit of Joseph Paull may rest upon the 
 entire eldership of the Redstone of to-day. 
 
 JASPER MARKLE THOMPSON. 
 
 Jasper Markle Thompson was born in Mason county, Ken- 
 tucky, August 30th, 1822, having been left, by the death of his 
 parents, to the care of relatives. Before he was three years of 
 
Sngfjjy WBTtnU&Sins i: Sa7:-lzt^ Sii i' 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 221 
 
 a<^e he was taken to Mill Grove, Westmoreland county, Pa., the 
 home of his grandmother, Mrs. Mary Markle, where he remained 
 until her death in 1832, after which he made his home for eighteen 
 years with his cousin, Gen. Cyrus P. Markle. 
 
 Mr. Thompson was married in 1846 to Miss Eliza Caruthers, 
 youngest daughter of Samuel Caruthers, a Ruling Elder in the 
 Presbyterian Church of Sewickley, Westmoreland county, Pa., 
 and came to this place in 1848. He united by examination and 
 profession of his faith with the Presbyterian Church of Union- 
 town, January 25th, 185 1. He was ordained and installed a 
 ruling elder of this church by the Rev. Wm. F. Hamilton, D. D., 
 on the 4th of March, i860. He was a commissioner to the Gen- 
 eral Assembly which met in Albany, N. Y., in 1868, and was 
 again sent to the Assembly which met at Madison, Wis., in 1880. 
 He is a director of the Western Theological Seminary and also 
 a Trustee of Washington and Jefiferson College. 
 
 Mr. Thompson has not only been prominent and successful 
 in business and public life, but also active and efficient as an offi- 
 cer in the church and Presbytery. 
 
 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 
 
 On page 35 in the history of Mt. Pleasant Church, after the 
 resignation of Rev. James I. Brownson, it should be added that 
 the churches of Greensburg and Mt. Pleasant called the Rev. 
 Wm. D. Moore, September 15th, 1849, ^^'^^ at that time was pas- 
 tor at Long Run. Mr. Moore asked counsel of the Presbytery 
 and acting on its advice accepted the calls and was installed pas- 
 tor over the united congregations on the first Tuesday of Octo- 
 ber. In April, 1851, he was called to Greensburg for all his 
 
222 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 time. Accepting this, his relation with Mt. Pleasant was dis- 
 solved on the 9th of April. 
 
 Rev. Wm. Wylie McLain was installed pastor on the second 
 Saturday of May, 1852. This relation continued until terminated 
 by the death of Mr. McLain, November loth. 1855. 
 
 Mr. David Henry Barron, a licentiate of the Presbytery of 
 Allegheny City, was received, April 13th, 1858, and called to 
 Mt. Pleasant. He was ordained and installed as pastor, May 
 13th. Mr. Barron was called to Hollidaysburg and Presbytery 
 severed the relation, August 6th, 1861. 
 
 The connection of J. P. Blackburn with the Presbytery (see 
 page 211) ceased sometime ago. 
 
 CORRECTIONS. 
 
 Page 64, for "Mr. J. A. Means," read Mr. J. A. Mearns. 
 
 Page 115, seventh line from the top, "Thursday" should be 
 Tuesday. 
 
 Page i6i,"Alvira M. Fromier" should be Alvira M. Fernier 
 and "Mary C. Aler" should be Mary C. Alter. 
 
 Page 180, "Mrs. Fulton Price" should be Mrs. R. T. Price. 
 
 Page 188, No. 47, for "Thomas Hurst," read Thomas Hunt. 
 
 Page 193, No. 99, "1838" should be 1837. 
 
 Page 203, No. 211, at the close, for "accepted," read a de- 
 posed. 
 
 Page 217, fourteenth line from the bottom, read Philadelphia 
 instead of "Pittsburg." 
 
PRESB^'TERV OF REDSTONE. 222 (a) 
 
 THE HON. JASPER M. THOMPSON. 
 
 Since the foregoin<^ sketch was pubhshed, and while this 
 book was in the hands of the binder, the community was sadly- 
 surprised and shocked by the announcement of the death of the 
 Hon. J. M. Thompson, which occurred on the evening of March 
 15th, 1889. About six weeks previous, Mr. Thompson had gone 
 South to look after some business interests, and, during his ab- 
 sence, had taken a severe cold, which, causing a violent attack of 
 pneumonia, resulted in his death about five hours after his return. 
 He evidently felt that the disease would prove fatal and seemed 
 anxious to hasten back to his family and familiar friends before 
 he should be finally overtaken b}' the relentless messenger, and, 
 on entering his home, after being kindly cared for b)' his loved 
 ones and his physician, expressed himself as ready to depart, if 
 it were the Lord's will to call him away. He is gone, as we be- 
 lieve, to the reward of those who trust implicitly in the Redeem- 
 er and Saviour of men. 
 
 Mr. Thompson was a man of most generous impulses, broad, 
 philanthropic, conservative and kind. Schooled to hard labor him- 
 self, he knew how to sympathize with those who were honestly 
 obliged to contend with poverty and battle with the world for a 
 livelihood; to all such he was ever ready to lend a helping hand. 
 It would be indeed difficult to find one in any community whose 
 personal influence has been exerted in so many directions and to 
 so great a variety of usefulness. Whenever an opportunity was 
 had — and often he created the opportunit\' — Mr. Thompson was 
 ready to speak a word for Christ, to direct the erring in the paths 
 of righteousness, to comfort the sorrowing, to pray with and for 
 the sick and the d}'ing, and to lead all to Him who is able to 
 save. He was a plain, unassuming, substantial man ; a well bal- 
 anced, consistent, affable, Christian gentleman ; universall)' re- 
 spected, honored and loved ; living, because of his peculiarly 
 
222(b) PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 approachable disposition and sympathetic natural way, near the 
 hearts and affections of the people. Often prevailed upon and 
 appointed by Presbytery to preach in our pulpits, he did so ac- 
 ceptably and with profit to all. He was not only a helper but a 
 leader in every good work and enterprise, secular and religious. 
 In his remarkabl)^ industrious, successful and exemplary life, we 
 have this valuable truth most fully demonstrated, that a man may 
 be diligent in business, yet fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. 
 
 At its meeting, March 27th, 1889, the Board of Trustees of 
 Washington and Jefferson College, took action in regard to the 
 death of Mr. Thompson, one of its members, March 15th, 1889, 
 and recorded its high estimate of Mr. Thompson as a successful 
 business man, eminent for his public spirit and zeal in good works 
 and Christian manhood and his fidelity and efficiency as a mem- 
 ber of the Board. 
 
 ADDITIONAL CORRECTIONS. 
 
 Page 116: 3d line should be, His first wife was a daughter 
 of Rev. Joseph Smith and sister of Rev. David Smith, &c. And 
 5th line: She was an aunt of Rev. Joseph Smith, D. D., &c. 
 
 Page 129: 13th line from the bottom should read, Until 
 after 181 5. 
 
 In the Index, page 184, after the name of James R. Hughes, 
 belongs to the name of James Hughes, above. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 223 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Adams, Jas . 73, 87.94,98. 186 
 Additions and Corrections, 221 
 Addison, Alexander ... 6 
 Aid for Students .... 15 
 A^^nevv.John Holmes, 116, 191 
 
 Allen, Bela 192 
 
 Allen, Moses 74 
 
 Allison, Alexander ... 2 
 
 Allison, Hector 2 
 
 Allison, Judfje 12 
 
 Anderson, Rev. Mr. ... 2 
 Anderson, S. McC, D. D., 65 
 
 Andrews, Jolin 190 
 
 Andrews, J. K. . . .31, 202 
 Andrews, Mrs. R. E. P. .180 
 Annan, Wm.,D. D., 30, 145, 193 
 Armstron<^, John . . . 71, 75 
 
 Armstrons^, Wm yS 
 
 Baber, James .... 74, 193 
 Bailey, M. C, Ph. D., 97, 
 
 103, 138, 141, 154, 208. 
 
 156, 210 
 
 Bailie, Mrs. Anna . . . .174 
 
 Baird, Aaron 26 
 
 Baird, Miss Maggie ... 28 
 
 Baird, Robert 25, 26 
 
 Baker, Perrin, 158, 160, 162, 
 
 208, 210 
 
 Bain. Pienry 16, 93 
 
 Barclay, David .... 16, 189 
 
 Barclay, Heniy yS 
 
 Barnett, John M., 22, 35, 36, 
 
 . . 132, 149, 169. 200, 210 
 Barnett, Mrs. J. M. . . .175 
 Barr, Samuel .... 9, 184 
 Barret, Elisha D., M. D. .191 
 Barron, U. H., D. D., 149, 199 
 
 Beatty, Charles 2 
 
 Beatty.C.C, D. D., L.L. D., 22 
 
 Belden, Luther 199 
 
 BeIl,Wm. G 192 
 
 Belle Vernon Church, 160 — 163 
 Bergen, S. S., 37, 49, 93. 96, 
 . . 102, 137, 144, 156,206 
 
 Bethel Chapel 50 
 
 Biggs, Henry W 198 
 
 Black, Jas., D. D., L.L. D.. 
 
 132, 195 
 
 Black, John 186 
 
 Black, James 195 
 
 Blackburn, John L . . . 207 
 
 Blackburn, J. P 211 
 
 Boggs, John 188 
 
 Boughner, Daniel . . . .111 
 Boughner, A. V. . . . .110 
 Boyd, Wm. L., 31, 53, 57. 201 
 Boyd, A. F. . . . 60, 150, 205 
 
 Boyd, John 186 
 
 Bradley, M. H. . . . 36. 208 
 
 Branch, John 200 
 
 Brice, John . . .8,61,73,184 
 Bristol, Cyrus B. . . .75,192 
 
 Brooks. A.sa 16,189 
 
 Brooks, Edward F. . . .194 
 Bronson, Asahel, D. D., 69, 
 
 154.203 
 
 Brownson, James L, D. D., 
 
 • • II, 19. 35. 36, 149. 194 
 Brownsville Church, 127 — 130 
 
 Brown's Church 143 
 
 Buchanan, George D. . . 207 
 
 Burchinal, Wm. J 196 
 
 Buston, Rev. Mr 104 
 
 Cataba War-path .... 98 
 
224 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 Caldwell, James 197 
 
 Caldwell, A. J 201 
 
 Caldwell, Eben B 202 
 
 Caldwell, J. D 203 
 
 Caldwell, John 2 
 
 Calhoun, J. Y 68 
 
 Calhoun, J. Adley . . 56, 194 
 
 Callen, J. H 118, 197 
 
 Campbell, Dr. Hugh, 120, 
 
 211, 217 
 
 Campbell, Allen D. . . .189 
 Campbell, Benjamin . . .123 
 
 Campbell, James 191 
 
 Campbell, Joseph . . . .194 
 Campbell, Samuel . . . .141 
 Campbell. Samuel L. . . 200 
 
 Campbell, W. W 199 
 
 Candidates for Ministry, 83, 89 
 Canon, Col. John .... 12 
 
 Catechising 29 
 
 Centennials 21, 83 
 
 Chalfant, George .... 26 
 Chambers, Joseph H., 75, 193 
 Chartiers Church .... 4 
 Cheeseman, C. P., 60, 66, 
 
 .... 153, 154, 207, 210 
 Chestnut, T. M. . . *. . .132 
 Church, Presbyterian, Its In- 
 fluence 21 
 
 Churches Organized ... 20 
 Churches, Names of . . . 9 
 
 Churches, Old 21 
 
 Churches, New 20 
 
 Churches Transferred, 19.73,74 
 Churches Vacant . . . 9, 211 
 Clark, John . . . 6, 8, 61, 183 
 
 Clark, H. S 127 
 
 Coe, James 188 
 
 Cochran, James . . . 35, 130 
 Collier, Frank M. . . 208, 211 
 
 Colleges, Early 12 
 
 Collections 15 
 
 Cone, A 150, 203 
 
 Connellsville Church, 130 — 133 
 
 Court House 12 
 
 Contributions , , 14, 23, 179 
 Crumrine, J. T. .91, 157, 208 
 Cunningham, R. H. . . .201 
 
 Davis, George ^8 
 
 Davis, Henry 93, 96 
 
 Davis, James . . . • 75, 193 
 Davis, Thomas . . . . 16, 190 
 
 Dawson Church 172 
 
 Deffenbaugh, George L. . 206 
 De Witt, B. T., 55, 57, 209,210 
 Dickey, J. B., 57, 102, 141, 
 
 156, 204 
 
 Dodd, Cephas, M. D. . '. 73 
 Dodd, Thaddeus, 4, 6, 11, 
 
 • • 68, 73. 183 
 
 Doddridge 72 
 
 Donegal Church (Pleasant 
 
 Grove now) 19 
 
 Donehoo, E. R 132 
 
 Donehoo, Geo. P., 34, 209, 210 
 
 Downs, Caleb W 199 
 
 Duffield, George .... 2 
 Dunbar Church, 133, 167 — 171 
 Duncan, J. K. . . .120, 140 
 Duncan, C. C. B., 91, 93, 
 
 96, 144. 157.207 
 
 Dunham. George . . . .196 
 Dunlap, Matthew . . . .190 
 Dunlap, James, D. D., 6, 9, 
 26, 37, 41, 44, 53, 73, 
 99, 114, 183. 
 Dunlap's Creek Church, 3, 
 
 25, 29, 211 
 
 Early Colleges 12 
 
 Eaton, Wm. M 70 
 
 Eaton, Wm. . . 56, 104, 193 
 Eaton, S. J. M., D. D. . . 22 
 Edgar, Wm. . . . 93, 96, 203 
 Edie, W. A., 130, 132, 209, 210 
 
 Education 10, 15 
 
 Elliott, S. E., 163, 165, 209, 210 
 Emmons, A. W^, 29, 32, 209, 210 
 Espy, Hugh 121 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE, 
 
 22:; 
 
 Ewin^^, JohriT 191 
 
 Ewintj, Hon. Nathaniel, 121. 
 
 .... 125, 21 1, 217, 218 
 Ewing, Hon. Nathaniel, Jr., 218 
 Ewing, Hon. John K., 22, 
 
 114, 123, 218 
 
 Ewing, W. F 36, 204 
 
 Fairchance Church, loi, 
 
 154 — 156 
 
 Fairchild, Ashbel G., D. D., 
 16, 87, 99, 1 10, 140, 154, 
 
 189, 211,212 
 
 Falling Exercises . . 9, 39, 73 
 Farmer, S. F., D. D., 58,60, 
 
 158, 209, 210 
 
 Fayette City Church, 157, 
 
 ' 88, 210 
 
 Ferrier, Andrew, D. D., 1 17, 194 
 Fields, A. B. . . 129, 132, 202 
 Fife, N. H. G., 65, 132,200,219 
 Finley, Robert, . . .73, 192 
 Finley, James, 3, 25, 55, 58, 
 
 61, 86, 183 
 
 Finley. Robert M., 86, 93, 
 
 95, 184 
 
 Finley, Caleb W 197 
 
 Finley, Ebenezer . . , , 28 
 Finney, S. L. , , . 165, 207 
 
 First Settlers 2 
 
 Flannagan, J. H 198 
 
 Fleming, \Vm. A 196 
 
 Flenniken, John 75 
 
 Flenniken, James , , , , 75 
 
 Flenniken, R. P 75 
 
 Flenniken, Hannah ... 75 
 Forsythe, C. J, . 1 13, 209, 2IO 
 Frontis, Stephen . . . 92, 95 
 Fulton, Henry . . . 149, 202 
 Fulton, James P., 27, 48, 
 
 49. 137, 202 
 
 Fulton, Robert H. . . . 203 
 
 P'ulton, Wm. S 204 
 
 Gailey, R. R., 49, 91, 157, 204 
 Galbraith, James 187 
 
 Gaus, Joseph 196 
 
 Gault, W. F 53 
 
 George's Creek Church, 84 — 89 
 
 Gibbons, H. 202 
 
 Gill, \V. H 107 
 
 Gilland, Charles and Mary, 70 
 Gillespie, John, D. D. . . 22 
 Gillect, N. H., 20, 56, 59, 
 
 75. 192 
 
 Gilmore, John W, . . . .201 
 Gilson, S. S., 114, 119,204,217 
 
 Given, Andrew 186 
 
 Glade's Church, (called 
 Muddy Creek, now New 
 
 Providence) 72 
 
 Graham, James . . 16,92, 187 
 Graham, Richard .... 30 
 Graham, L. Y., D. D., 59, 
 
 93, 96, 161, 201 
 
 Greensburg Church ... 19 
 Greensboro Church, iio — 113 
 
 Grier, Smith F 194 
 
 Guthrie, James, 16,41, 44, 
 
 53- 75. 130, 187 
 
 Hale, Wm yy 
 
 Hamilton, Rev. W. B. and 
 
 Wife 179 
 
 Hamilton, W. F.. D. D., 22, 
 
 . •. , . .23, 118, 199, 213 
 
 Hanna, John 11 
 
 Hair, G. M., 59, 107, 154, 
 
 162, 202 
 
 Harper, Samuel 76 
 
 Harper, Joseph 191 
 
 Harshe, Wm. P 195 
 
 Hassinger, Peter . 93, 96, 196 
 Hawkins, John L. . . 132, 193 
 
 Hazlett, Samuel 197 
 
 Hench, J. C. . . 102, 155, 198 
 Henderson, Joseph, 9, 16, 186 
 Henry, Robert . . . 75, 191 
 Henshaw, James .... 49 
 Herries, A. J. ... 173, 207 
 Herron, Francis, D.D. 16.92, 188 
 
226 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 Herwick, R. A 2ii 
 
 Hill, George . . 7, 9, 16, 185 
 
 Hill, Samuel 105 
 
 Hough, A. A. . . 150, 201 
 
 Howell, John G 195 
 
 Hughes, James . . 7, 8, ii, 73 
 Hughes, Watson, 20, 30, 
 
 146, 191 
 
 Hughes, James R., 20, 59, 
 
 146, 184, 196 
 
 Hughes, Thomas E. . . . 8 
 Hughes, Thomas .... 69 
 
 Humbert, Jacob 211 
 
 Hunt, Thomas . .16, 92, 188 
 Hunter, Joseph L., 22, 54, 
 
 172, 209, 210 
 
 Hunter, A. S. . . 129, 209, 210 
 Indian Creek Church . 55, 133 
 
 Indians 5-55-72 
 
 Jacob, Prosper H. . . 105, 196 
 
 Jacob's Creek 55 
 
 Jeffers, W. H., D. D.. L.L. ' 
 
 D 22 
 
 Jefferson Church . . . 68 — 70 
 Jenkins, John M. . .165, 208 
 Jenner Church, 19, 94 — 97, 21 1 
 Jennings, Jacob, M. D., 7, 
 
 9.26, 73, 90, 185 
 
 Johnston, Alexander . . '. 130 
 Johnston, Geo. N. . . 109, 207 
 Johnston, John W. . . .192 
 Johnston, Wm., 16, 26, 90, 
 
 128, 188 
 
 Johnston, Robert, 16, 56, 59, 189 
 Junkin,D. X., D. D. . . . 4 
 
 Kaine, Mrs. E. J 180 
 
 Kean, Wm. F 204 
 
 Kennedy, David 198 
 
 Kerr, B. M., 89, 91, 127, 
 
 129, 209, 210 
 
 Kibler, Joseph 120 
 
 Kinkaid, M. S. C 201 
 
 Kirkpatrick, John H. . . . 190 
 .Kuhn, Wm. C 93, 201 
 
 Laird, Francis ... 8, 16, 186 
 Laurel Hill Church . . -^j — 52 
 
 Ledwith, Wm. L 205 
 
 Lee, Robert . . . . 8, 16, 188 
 Leisenring Church . 173 — 174 
 
 Lewis, E. P 129, 202 
 
 Lewis, Reuben 199 
 
 Lewis, Thomas 120 
 
 Linn, Alonzo 197 
 
 Little, John W. . . . 6(), 204 
 Little Redstone . . 26, 89 — 91 
 
 Log College 16 
 
 Logan, S. C 107 
 
 Long Run Church . . 60 — 70 
 Loomis, Aretus . . . 16, 189 
 Loring, Miss Sophia . 174, 177 
 
 Lowes, A. B 162, 205 
 
 Lowrie, Lewis A. . '. . .196 
 
 Lutz, John S 200 
 
 Lyon, Nathaniel B. . . . 196 
 McBride, Samuel . . 108, 206 
 McCandlass, Alex., 62, 66, 
 
 104, 190 
 
 McCarrell, J. J., 103, 109, 
 
 208, 210 
 
 McClane, W. W. . . 129, 205 
 
 McCleary, Wm 124 
 
 McClellandtown Church 
 
 134—139 
 
 McClintock, John, 68, 70, 
 
 . . . 71, 79, 112, 194, 210 
 McClintock, John C. . . . 200 
 McDougall, James . . . . 192 
 McFarren, Samuel .... 191 
 McGarraugh, Robert. . .187 
 McGaughey, A. . . .65, 198 
 McGogney, A. Z. . . 132, 208 
 McGogney, Mrs. A. Z. . .181 
 McGrady, James . . . .184 
 McKaig, C. v., D. D. . . 23 
 
 McKallip, J. H 108 
 
 McKee, C. L. V 211 
 
 McKee, J. B. . . 30, 112, 194 
 McKeesport Church, 103 — i lO 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 227 
 
 McLane, James 187 
 
 McLain, VV. W., 140, 142, 
 
 H9. 193 
 
 McMaster, H. H. 25, 27, 29, 208 
 McMichael, Wm. . . .22, 75 
 McMillan, John, D. D., 4, 
 
 . . 6, 8, II, 14, 15, 61. 72 
 McMillan, John. D. D., 20, 
 
 . 35, 36, 150, 158. 163, 203 
 McMillan, Mrs. John . .175 
 
 Mahan, Samuel 185 
 
 Marquis, Thomas . . . .185 
 
 Marquis, R. R 171 
 
 Marshall, Robert . . . Ji, 184 
 Martin, James . . . .57, 199 
 Martin, Thomas, 90, 128, 
 
 ........ 156, 193 
 
 Martin, Charles 194 
 
 Martin, John W. . .156, 204 
 
 Mateer, Joseph 197 
 
 Mearns, John A. . . . 64, 197 
 Meloy, John C, 91, 144, 
 
 147, 205, 210 
 
 Mercer, Boyd. 74, 103, 127, 185 
 
 Mercer, Simon B 123 
 
 MilhoUand, A. S., D. D., 
 
 . . 1 14, 129, 141, 207, 210 
 
 Miller, O. H 146, 201 
 
 Milligan, Wm. V., D. D. . 22 
 Ministers, Early .... 3 
 Missionary, Early .... 2 
 Montgomery, Samuel, 35, 
 
 149. 193 
 
 Moore, Thomas 185 
 
 Moore, Wm. D., 63, 65,66, 195 
 Moore, Wm. P., 23, 66, 1 32, 206 
 
 Moore, James R 198 
 
 Moore, Robert B 199 
 
 Moorehead, Wm 186 
 
 Moorhead, W. W., D. D., . 23 
 Morledge, H. C, 173, 174, 
 
 209, 210 
 
 Mt. Pleasant Church, 4, 19, 
 
 • • . • 34—37 
 
 Mt. Pleasant Reunion Ch. 
 
 163 — 166 
 
 Mt. Vernon Church. 153 — 154 
 Mt. Washington Church. 
 
 141 — 144. 21 1 
 
 Muddy Creek Church . 71, 72 
 Myers. B. F. . . . 93. 96, 200 
 
 Neel. John J 196 
 
 Nesbit, Charles. D. D. . . 42 
 Nevin, Wm. G., 27. 31. 60, 
 
 129, 158, 206 
 
 New and Old School, 19, 
 
 35.81 
 
 New Providence Church, 
 
 68, 71—84 
 
 New Salem 28 
 
 Niccolls, Samuel J., D. D., 199 
 
 Oliphant. F. H 155 
 
 Owen, Griffith . . .119, 196 
 Owens, John D. . . . 32, 208 
 Parke, Thomas S., 53, 172, 203 
 
 Parker, John 25 
 
 Parsonages 32, 51 
 
 Patterson, Joseph, 7, 8, 73, 184 
 Patterson, Robert . . 16, 188 
 Patterson, A. O., D. D., 16, 
 20, 30, 34, 144, 146, 148, 190 
 
 Patterson. J. G 200 
 
 PauU, George, 200, 211, 
 
 215. 219 
 
 Paull, Joseph . . 167, 211, 219 
 
 Pentzer, Jacob 193 
 
 Perkins, Wm 102 
 
 Personal Sketches . . . .211 
 Pigeon Creek Church . . 4 
 Pitt Township Church . . 103 
 Pleasant Unity Church. 19, 
 
 148 — 152 
 
 Plumer, Hon. George . . 145 
 
 Plumer, George 193 
 
 Plumer, Alexander . . .145 
 
 Plumer, John C 145 
 
 Plumer, Miss Ruth P3., now 
 Mrs. J. K. Andrews . .182 
 
228 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 Plumer, John S 203 
 
 Porter, Samuel . . 16, 184, 188 
 Porter, Samuel, Jr. . .188 
 Porter, Rev. Mr. . . . 35, 147 
 
 Porter, George 134 
 
 Potter, G. M 169 
 
 Power, James, D. D., 3, 16, 
 25,29,34,39,72,84,114, 183 
 
 Power, Francis H 198 
 
 Price, R. T 169, 205 
 
 Presbytery of Blairsville . 19 
 Presbytery of Donegal . , 3 
 Presbytery of Erie ... 8 
 Presbytery of New Castle, 3 
 Presbytery of New York . 5 
 Presbytery of Ohio . .6,8, y^i 
 Presbytery of Washington, 5 
 Presbytery of West Virginia, 20 
 Presbytery of Redstone — 
 Boundaries . . . 18, 19, 73 
 
 Centennial 21 
 
 Early Settlements ... i 
 
 First Records 6 
 
 First Meetings .... 6 
 
 Members 9, 20 
 
 Organization . . . . i, 5 
 
 Name i 
 
 Pioneer Education ... 10 
 Presbyteries now in for- 
 mer bounds .... 23 
 Professorship of Elocution, 23 
 Professorship of Elocution, 
 Committee to Superin- 
 tend 23 
 
 Quillen, Ezekiel 193 
 
 Ralston, W. W., D. D., 1 19, 202 
 Ralston, Samuel . . . .186 
 
 Rea, John, Sr yy 
 
 Redick, William 142 
 
 Redstone, Centennial of. 21 
 Redstone, Members of . . 20 
 Redstone, Organi;>ation of, 5 
 Redstone, Centennial Schol- 
 arship 23 
 
 Redstone in Organization of 
 
 Three Synods .... 8 
 Redstone, Origin of Name, i 
 Redstone Thank Offerings, 23 
 
 Reed, Wm 195 
 
 Reed, John 16, 189 
 
 Reed, John B 23, 210 
 
 Rehoboth Church . 3, 58 — 60 
 Revivals, 9, 10, 16, 30, 39, 
 53. 58. 73. 83, 100, 103, 
 
 106, 138, 169 
 
 Riggs, Cyrus, D. D. . 31, 197 
 Robinson, Col. James . .155 
 Robinson, E. S. . . .159, 208 
 Robinson, Wm. M. ... 22 
 Rogers, D. B., 102, 113, 
 
 156, 171. 203 
 
 Rosborough, H. O., 20, 84, 
 88, 113, 140, 141, 144, 
 
 198, 210, 212 
 
 Ross, John .... 92,95, 189 
 Round Hill Church, 3, 55 — 57 
 Ruble, Jacob. 32, 141, 205, 210 
 Ruble, Wm. Rhodes . . . 207 
 
 Russell, Watson 109 
 
 Ryland, H. H 211 
 
 Sample, J. Logan . . .57, 201 
 
 Schools II 
 
 Scott, George K. . . .31, 204 
 Scott, John W., D. D., 69, 
 
 205, 210 
 
 Scott, George . . . .91, 202 
 
 Scott, Harr}^ 207 
 
 Scott, Winfield C 206 
 
 Scottdale Church . . 158 — 160 
 Scovel, S. F., D. D. . . . 22 
 Sewickley Church . 4, 29, 34 
 Shanks, J, D. . .59, 154, 207 
 Shaw, Mrs. Mary . . . .179 
 Shearer, F. A., D. D., 64, 197 
 Shepherd, George C. . . . 200 
 
 Sherrard, D. A. C 45 
 
 Skiles, Samuel P 195 
 
 Sloan, Wm. N. . . . . . 204 
 
PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 229 
 
 Smith, David, 56, 58, 87, 98, 
 
 185 
 
 Smith, Joseph, D. D. . 57, 197 
 Smith, John M. . .75, 79, 192 
 Smith, Robert F., 148, 151, 
 
 209, 210 
 
 Smith, Jesse 190 
 
 Smith, Wm. C 195 
 
 Smith, Joseph . . . . 5, 183 
 Smythe, Anson, D. D. . . 22 
 Somerset Church, 19, 91 — 
 
 94, 211 
 
 South Fork of Ten Mile . 68 
 Sparks, Samue! . . . 35, 150 
 Speer, WilHam .... 16, 187 
 
 Speer, L. M 161 
 
 Speer, Thomas P 198 
 
 Spring Hill Furnace Ch 140,21 1 
 Statistical Reports, 17, 18, 
 
 23, 166, 179 
 
 Steele, Robert 9- 187 
 
 Stockton, Joseph . . 8, 16, 188 
 Stoneroad, Joel 20, 37, 43, 
 47, 53, 112, 116, 144, 192, 
 
 211,213 
 
 Stoneroad Chapel .... 50 
 Stevenson, Ross, D. D. 132, 195 
 Stevenson, J. H. 31, 53, 90, 
 
 .... 128, 159, 172, 201 
 Stevenson, Daniel .... 78 
 Stewart, Robert C . . . .198 
 Stewart, W. G. .171, 209. 2 1 o 
 
 Stratton, Wm. 22 
 
 Swan, Wm. 16, 30, 61, 66, 185 
 
 Swan, Samuel 190 
 
 Swan, Charles 78 
 
 Swift, E. P., D. D. . . 16, 189 
 Synod of — 
 
 N. Y. and New Jersey . 6 
 N. Y. and Philadelphia 2, 5, 6 
 Pittsburgh . 8, 13, 21, 22, 74 
 
 Philadelphia 6 
 
 The Carolinas 6 
 
 Virginia . . . . 6, 8, 13, 14 
 
 Tate, Samuel 8 
 
 Taylor, Z. B. . . 159, 209, 210 
 
 Temperance 81, 77 
 
 Tent Church .... 97 — 103 
 Terry, S. Howell . 92, 95, 192 
 Thank Offerings . . . 23, 182 
 Thanksgiving Sermon, ist, 2 
 Thompson, Hon. J. M., 123, 
 
 211, 220 
 
 Torrence, Adam . . . 22, 191 
 Torrence, Joseph .... 45 
 Trunkey, Hon. John ... 22 
 
 Turbitt, John 293 
 
 Tyrone Church . . . 52 — 55 
 Uniontown Church . 114 — 127 
 
 Vance, James no 
 
 Van Eman, George, 16, 74, 
 
 134, 191 
 
 Veech, Hon. James . . 71, 76 
 Veech, David .... ']6, 123 
 Wakefield, C. B. 93, 96, 141, 
 
 144, 156, 206 
 
 Wallace, J. B 211 
 
 Wallace, R. M. . . 90, 128, 197 
 Washington College ... 12 
 
 Watt, Thomas W 167 
 
 West, Nathanael, Sr. . 105, 197 
 West, Nathanael, Jr. . . .105 
 Western M. Society ... 13 
 Western Theological Sem . 23 
 West Newton Ch.31, 144 — 148 
 
 Welty, F. B 200 
 
 Wheeler, . . . .133 
 
 White. N. G. 53, 133, 172, 
 
 208, 210 
 
 White, Robert . . .150, 206 
 
 White Rock 133 
 
 Wick, William 8 
 
 Wightman, J. W., D. D. 107,204 
 Williams, Moses Allen 117, 196 
 Williams Daniel . . , 146, 198 
 
 Wilson, Alex. C 205 
 
 Wilson, Robert F . . 106, 199 
 Wilson, James 192 
 
230 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF REDSTONE. 
 
 Wilson, Joseph R . . . . 202 
 Wilson, S. J., D. D., L.L. D 22 
 Wilson. Samuel, D. D., 20, 
 
 . 26, 88, 134, 135, 194, 215 
 Wishart, Marcus . . .59, 205 
 Woman's Missionary Socie- 
 ties, 52, 70, 82, 107, 108, 
 133, 152, 164, 174—179, 
 
 180—182 
 
 Woman's F. M. Society, 
 
 108, 174 — 179 
 
 Woman's F, M. Society, 
 
 Officers of. . . . 176 — 178 
 Woman's H. M. Society, 
 
 Officers of . . 180, i8i, 182 
 Woodend, Wm. W. . . .195 
 
 Woods, Wm 186 
 
 Wright, John 186 
 
 Wright, W. S 107 
 
 Wylie,W. T.,D. D., 16, 56, 
 
 58.99. 114, 187 
 
 Wylie, Mrs. W. T 116 
 
 Wycoff, Rev. Mr. . . 102, 155 
 
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