An illustrated history of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania civil, political and military, from its earliest settlement to the present time, including historical descriptions of each county in the state
John Williamson Nevin (February 20, 1803 - June 6, 1886), was an American theologian and educationalist. He was born in the Cumberland Valley, near Shippensburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania.. He taught in a seminary in Mercersburg, Pa. and was president of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He was the father of noted sculptor and poet Blanche Nevin.
"Reprinted under the auspices of the Hamilton Library Association - Historical Department: (p. 1.)
Bound with : Newspaper history of Carlisle and Cumberland County, Pennsylvania / by Charles H. Leeds ; War history : operations of the Union Cavalry on the peninsula, in which some Cumberland County soldiers took part / by William E. Miller ; Moral force vs. conquest and subjugation / by Thomas Sharp ; New Castle in a new world / by Irwin Mahon ; Local history : agricultural society in its infancy / by Helen Tritt ; John Price Durbin : first Methodist president of Dickinson College, Carlisle / by O. B. Super ; Local history : the York, Dillsburg and Greencastle Railroad / by Quitman P. Ahl ; Some Cumberland County physicians of forty years ago / by Israel H. Bentz ; Historical : the study of the Bible, the basics of the Declaration of Independence and the civil and religious liberty provided for in the Constitution of the United States/ by Richard W. Woods ; Birth and part history of the American flag / by Irwin Mahon; Local history : events in the vicinity of Philadelphia participated in by the Scotch Irish in the latter part ofthe year 1777, also a brief account of Braddock's defeat in French and Indian War, 1755 / by Thomas Sharp ; Forty years in the wilderness : a sermon delivered in the second Presbyterian Church, Carlisle, Pennsylvania on his fortieth anniversary, January 3, 1909 / by George Norcross ; In memoriam : Charles Lytle Lamberton / by James M. Lamberton ; White man's way : illustrated talks on scientific subjects to "Indian Chiefs" on their visits to the Carlisle Indian School / by Charles F. Himes; Discovery of coal in northeastern Pennsylvania and life in the mining region / by Emeline D. T. Bedford ; St. Clair's defeat / by Margaret Fleming Murray ; Hon. Frederick Watts / by I. Thornton Osmond ; Civil war times in Carlisle / by Lenore Embick Flower ; annual report to the Hamilton Library Association of Carlisle, Pa...[1902, 1903, 1905-1908, 1910] : Report of the president to the Hamilton Library Association of Carlisle, Pennsylvania...[1911, 1912, 1915-1917, 1919] ; Local history: the Pennsylvania Archives as they apply to Cumberland County / by James Evelyn Pilcher.
Includes early minutes under the Synods of Philadelphia, and New York and Philadelphia.
Affiliation: 1716-1745, The Synod; 1745-1758, "Old Side," Synod of Philadelphia; "New Side," Synod of New York; 1758-1789, Synod of New York & Philadelphia; 1789-1814, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Microfilm. Philadelphia : Presbyterian Historical Society, 1966. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
