Westminster College - Blue Jay Yearbook (Fulton, MO)

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X WILLIAM Hoon MARQUESS, D. D. WILLIAM HOGE MARQUESS was born in Tennessee, February 22, 1854. He is the second son of Anne Lacy Hoge and William Henry Marquess. He belongs to a Virginia family which is not only Presbyterian, but has produced in its various branches many noted Presbyterian preachers, as the Hoges, Lacys, Brooks, Marquesses, and Smiths. His boyhood life was spentin Mississippi. He entered Westminster College, and took the A. B. degree in 1873. Pursuing privately his studies for the ministry, he was ordained November 25, 1875, in Keytesville, Mis- souri, where, in connection with Brunswick, he preached two years. In 1877 he was called to the pastorate of the church in Fulton, Missouri, he being then only twenty-four years old. This position he held for sixteen years. Under his ministry the church grew in numbers and into a breadth of work and inHuence far beyond anything in its previous history. He himself grew into a preacher of wonderful spiritual richness which grew out of an extraordi- nary knowledge of the Wo1'd of God and power to interpret it. In 1887 he was made president of Westminster' College, a position which he held till Iune, 1893. His man- agement of the College was attended with energy and success. This double work, however, in connection with his incessant private studies in several directions, specially in the line of languages, ancient and modern, was too much even for his vigorous constitution, and warned by persistent attacks of insomnia, he resigned. He was then called to the chairmanship of the faculty of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, where he is still doing double work as professor of Old Testament Exegesis and professor of the English Bible and Bib- lical Theology, besides supplying the Crescent Hill church. ' Dr. Marquess received his Doctor's degree from Central College, Kentucky. His wife, Mrs. Margaret Mar- quess, is the daughter of the late Judge A. H. Buckner, of Mexico, Missouri. 1 25

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