McGill, Alexander Taggart 1807-1889

Born, Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, February 24, 1807; Jefferson College, 1826; lawyer, 1826-31; Canonsburg Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania, 1831-34; ordained Associate Reformed, Carlisle Presbytery, 1835; pastor, Perry and York churches, Carlisle, 1835-38; pastor, Second Presbyterian Church, Carlisle, 1838-42; professor, Ecclesiastical History and Church Government, Western Theological Seminary, 1842-52, 53-54; professor, Columbia Theological Seminary, 1552-53; professor, Pastoral Theology, Church Government and Homiletics, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1854-59; Church History and Practical Theology, 1859-60, Ecclesiastical History and Church Government, 1860-61, Ecclesiastical History, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, 1861-83, professor emeritus, 1883-89; died, Princeton, New Jersey, January 13, 1889,. D.D., Franklin and Marshall College, 1842; LL.D., College of New Jersey, 1868; Moderator, General Assembly, 1848.
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Alexander Taggart McGill

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McGILL, Alexander Taggart, clergyman, born in Cannonsburgh, Pennsylvania, 24 January, 1807. He was graduated at Jefferson collage in 1826, was a tutor there for a short time, and then removed to Georgia, where he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1830. He was appointed by the legislature to survey and map the northwest corner of the state, and after this work was completed in 1831 he returned to Cannonsburgh for the purpose of fitting himself for the ministry. After studying in the Associate Presbyterian seminary, where he was graduated in 1835, he was ordained at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and was pastor of three small churches in Cumberland, Perry, and York counties till 1838, when he connected himself with the old-school Presbyterian church. Soon afterward he became pastor of the 2d Presbyterian church of Carlisle, and in 1842 professor of church history in Western theological seminary, Alleghany, Pennsylvania In 1848 he was moderator of the general assembly, which met in Baltimore. In the winter of 1852 he filled a professorship in the Presbyterian seminary at Columbia, South Carolina, and in 1853 returned to his former chair in Allegheny. In 1854 he was transferred to the professorship of ecclesiastical, homiletic, and pastoral theology at Princeton theological seminary, and in 1883 he was retired as emeritus professor. He received the degree of D.D. from Marshall college, Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1842, and that of LL. D. from Princeton in 1868. Many of his sermons and speeches have been printed. He has been a frequent contributor to reviews, and, besides assisting in the composition of other works, is the author of a volume on "Church Government," now (1888) in press, and two on "Church Ordinances," ready for the press.--His son, George Mcculloch, surgeon, born at Hannah Furnace, Centre County, Pennsylvania, 20 April, 1838; died near Fort Lyon, Colorado, 20 July, 1867, was graduated at Princeton in 1858 and at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1861. He was commissioned assistant surgeon in the United States army to date from 16 April, 1861, in June, 1863, was made medical inspector, and in May, 1864, was acting medical director of the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac. For gallantry at Meadow Brook he received the brevet of captain. In June, 1864, he was made acting medical inspector of the Army of the Potomsac, and served as such until January, 1865. At the close of the war he was brevetted major. During the cholera year of 1866 he attended the victims of the epidemic on Hart's and David's islands, New York harbor, receiving the brevet of lieutenant-colonel, he was then ordered to the west, and while he was on the march from Fort Harker, Kansas, to Fort Lyon, the cholera broke out. Incessant labor then, which earned for him the brevet of colonel, with grief at the death of his wife, was the cause of his death.--Another son, Alexander Taggart, jurist, born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, 20 October, 1843, was graduated at Princeton in 1864, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised in Jersey City, New Jersey He was elected to the legislature in 1874, re-elected the following year, and was prosecutor of the pleas of Hudson county in 1878-'83 and then president of the county courts till May, 1887, when he was chosen chancellor of the state of New Jersey.

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The Centennial Memorial of the Presbytery of Carlisle: A Series of Papers, Historical and Biographical, Relating to the Origin and Growth of Presbyterianism in the Central and Eastern Part of Southern Pennsylvania, Volume 2--Biographical (1889) By Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyteries. Carlisle (see page 255)

Discourses at the inauguration of the Rev. Alexander T. M'Gill, D.D. : as Professor of Pastoral Theology, Church Government and the Composition and Delivery of Sermons, in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N.J ... September 12, 1854 (1854) - Murray, Nicholas, 1802-1861

A short history of American Presbyterianism from its foundations to the reunion of 1869 (1869 [1903]) - McGill, Alexander Taggart, 1807-1889
The period from the founding of the Presbyterian church in the United States of America to the commencement of the war of the revolution, by the Rev. A. T. McGill.--

The period from the war of the Revolution to the adoption of the "Presbyterian form of government" (1786) by the Rev. S. M. Hopkins.--

The period from the adoption of the Presbyterian form of government to the reunion of 1869, by the Rev. S. J. Wilson

Patriotism, philanthropy, and religion : an address before the American Colonization Society, January 16, 1877 (1877) - McGill, Alexander T. (Alexander Taggart), 1807-1889

Church government. A treatise (1888) - McGill, Alexander T. (Alexander Taggart), 1807-1889

The hand of God with the black race : a discourse delivered before the Pennsylvania Colonization Society (1862) - McGill, Alexander T. (Alexander Taggart), 1807-1889

Sinful but not forsaken. A sermon, preached in the Presbyterian church, Fifth avenue and Nineteenth street, New York, on the day of national fasting, January 4, 1861 (1861) - McGill, Alexander Taggart, 1807-1889.

Church government : a treatise compiled from his lectures in theological seminaries (1888) - McGill, Alexander Taggart, 1807-1899
Life by faith : a sermon preached before the Synod of New Jersey at the opening of its sessions, at Rahway, New Jersey, Tuesday evening, October 21st, 1862 (1862) - McGill, Alexander Taggart, 1807-1889

Popery the punishment of unbelief : a sermon before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, at Baltimore, May 25th, 1848 (1848) - McGill, Alexander Taggart, 1807-1889
Sprague collection
The presence of God a people's prosperity; a sermon preached in Sunday morning, April 11, 1841, in the Presbyterian Church at Carlisle, PA. (Volume 1) (1841) - McGill, Alexander Taggart, 1807-1889.

A Sermon Preached on the Death of William Henry Harrison, Late President of the United States

The presence of God a people's prosperity; a sermon preached in Sunday morning, April 11, 1841, in the Presbyterian Church at Carlisle, PA. (Volume 2) - McGill, Alexander Taggart, 1807-1889.

A Sermon Preached on the Death of William Henry Harrison, Late President of the United States

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McGill, Alexander Taggart by Edward Ludlow Mooney

Theology Today 57:1 (2000)
A Priest/Poet's Christmas in Wales: R. S. Thomas and the Incarnation by William J. McGill

Theology Today 25:3 (1968)
Iconoclasm and the Integrity of the Faith: Critique: II by Arthur McGill

The Princeton Seminary Bulletin 43:3 (1950)
Miller Chapel by H. L. McGill Wilson

The Presbyterian Review (1881)
III. The Book of Discipline in a Revised form, as Proposed by the Assembly's Revision Committee by Alexr. T. McGill

The Presbyterian Review (1880)
III. Deaconesses by Alexander T. McGill

The Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review (1872)
Tenture of the Elder's Office by Alexander T. McGill, D.D.

The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review (1865)
Pennsylvania Archives, Vol. 4. 1853. A Chapter from "The Monongahela of Old," &c by Alexander Taggart McGill