Lincoln University - Lion Yearbook (Lincoln University, PA)

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FACULTY Pa., 1869; Pastor Conneautville and Harmonsburg, Pa., 1869-73 ; Pastor, Golden, Col., 1873-79 5 Pastor, Danville, Va. He visited Palestine, 1879-80 ; Pastor, Mahoning, Pa., 1880-90 ; Professor of Pastoral Theology, Biblical Archaeology and Apologetics, Theological Seminary, Lincoln University, Pa., 1890 ; author of The Land of Israel, 1899. iRcv. 3. Hsptnwall iHoDoc, ID. 2 .f Professor of Biblical Instruction, born Philadelphia, Pa. B. A., University of Pennsylvania, 18 1, M. A., 1854; Princeton Theological Seminary, 1856; Licensed, Presbytery of Philadelphia, 1856 ; Ordained, Presbytery of Luzerne, 1857 ; Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Maueh Chunk, Pa., 1857-65 ; D. D., Pennsylvania University, 1874 Pastor, First Church, Hartford, Conn., 1866-92; Professor in Lincoln University, Pa., 1893 ; Author of “What is Church Law,” 1882; “Recognition after Death,” 1889; “Of the Shorter Catechism,” Part II, 188 ; “The Ruling Elder at Work,” 1897. Dr. Hodge is a universal favorite among the students as a preacher and professor. • • • • fl rof. XHUaltcr Xivmflston Mriflbt Was born at Imlaystown, N. J., Feb. 3, 1872. He received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University when he was but 20 years of age, graduating with the class of 1892. He received a Fellowship at the same University and spent the next year there in the study of experimental sciences. In 1895 he received the degree of Master of Arts. Prof. Wright came to Lincoln University in 1893 and has since very ably filled the chair of Mathematics. Notwithstanding his subject is difficult to master he wins the affection of every man who comes into one of his classes. n

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THE 1900 CLASS BOOK ton in which Dr. Briggs was tried, and he voted for the deposition of Rev. Briggs on account of his heresy against Presbyterianism, and in the Pennsyl- vania Legislature, of which he is at present a member, he voted against M. S. Quay on account of his heresy against Republicanism. If we had a man like John B. Rendall in every community in Pennsyl- vania there would be no grease with which to run “machines.” • » d • 2 r. 3. drrno flIMllcr (Son of Edward Miller, Civil Engineer and formerly Chief Engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad) was born in Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. 9th, 1848. His early life was spent at his home in Philadelphia. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania on the iotli of March, 1876. His health breaking down soon afterward he spent the next ten years build- ing it up in California and Colorado while practicing his profession. Re- turning to his native State, Pennsylvania, he was soon after elected to the chair of Natural Sciences. Dr. Miller has occupied this chair for thirteen years and has proven a very valuable addition to the Faculty of Lincoln University, and is held in very high esteem by all his classes. An example of this is seen by the fact that under the new elective open to seniors, the class, almost to a man,elected Dr. Miller’s subject. Dr. Miller holds the position of Surgeon on the Central Division of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad systems. 9 o • • ■Rev. Robert Xairb Stewart, E . Professor of Pastoral Theology, Evidences of Christianity, and Biblical Archaeology, Dean of Faculty of the University, was born at Murrysville, Pa., member of 140th Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1862-65; B. A., Washington and Jefferson College, 1866 ; Western Theological Seminary, 1869 ; Licensed Presbytery, of Blairsville in 1868 ; he was ordained by the Presbytery of Erie, 10

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THE 1900 CLASS BOOK IRcv. (Beoroc 33. Carr, ©. Was born in Berwick, England, and educated in the University of Glascow, and the United Presbyterian Seminary. He was ordained by the Presbytery of London in 1869 and become pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Hastings, Eng., where he remained until 1875, when he went to Tranant, Scotland, and stayed until 1881 ; thence he went to Edinburgh and remained until 1893. Dr. Carr came to the United States in 1894 and served the churches at Avon- dale and Toughkenamon, Chester Co., Pa., and in 1895 he was elected Pro- fessor of Sacred Rhetoric in the Theological Seminary of Lincoln University. Until this year Professor Carr has not only filled this chair but has occupied the chair of English Language and Literature as well. He is also the Uni- versity Librarian, and by means of his extensive knowledge of Literature he is of great help to the students in their research. • 09« professor flDclleot» The Rev. Malcolm James McLeod, A. M., was born in Prince Edward Is- land, Canada, on May 24th, 18G7. He graduated from Dalhousie College, Halifax, N. S., in 1887. After having taken a special course in higher math- ematics and winning the famous Queen Victoria gold medal he went to Princeton Seminary, from which he graduated in 1890, having also taken a special course in philosophy under Dr. MeCosh. Then he took a post grad- uate course in McCormick Seminary, Chicago. Mr. McLeod has traveled extensively abroad, having visited every capitol in Europe and spent several months in Egypt and the Holy Land. He has had two pastorates, one at Toughkenamon, Pa., and the other at the Third Church of Chester, Pa. Prof. McLeod was elected to the chair of Greek Language and Literature in Lincoln University in the Spring of 189.8. He assumed the duties of Pro- fessor in the Fall of ’99, and since that time has endeared himself to the students, both as a professor and preacher. 2