CHAPTER THIRD.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES (OLD SCHOOL BRANCH).

BY THE REV. WILLIAM B. SPRAGUE, D.D., L.L.D.

Prefatory Note.- Ashbel Green, D. D. LL.D. - Archibald Alexander, D.D.James W. Alexander, D.D. - Joseph Addison Alexander, D.D. - Samuel Miller, D.D.- Eliphalet Nott, D.D., LL. D.-William Neill, D.D. - John McDowell, D.D.-William McDowell, D. D.- George Junkin, D.D., LL.D. -Joseph Smith, D.D. William W. Phillips, D.D. - Joseph H. Jones, D.D. -William M. Engles, D.D. - John N. Campbell, D.D. George Potts, D.D. Nicholas Murray, D. D. — John M. Krebs, D.D. - Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, D.D. - Phineas D. Gurley, D.D.

PREFATORY NOTE.

I HAVE been requested to write sketches of Old School Presbyterian ministers, who have died during the period of the separation of the church, sufficient to occupy a very limited portion of this volume. In looking over the list of those who may be considered representative ministers, who have died within these thirty-three years, I am bound to say that there is double the number that I have selected, who are just as fairly entitled to a commemorative notice, as most of those whom I have made the subjects of it. As it was impossible, however, to include them all within the specified limits, while I have taken care to include none whom the voice of the whole Church would not pronounce worthy of being thus distinguished, I have made the selection not without some reference to the comparative facility with which the material for different sketches could be obtained. Those who do not find in the series, some honored and beloved names which they look for, may rest assured that the omission has been occasioned by the circumstances I have mentioned, and not by the want of due appreciation of the individuals concerned.-W. B. S

ASHBEL GREEN, D.D., LL.D.

THE father of ASHBEL GREEN was the Rev. Jacob Green, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Hanover, N.J., and his mother was a daughter of the Rev. John

CHAPTER THIRD.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES (OLD SCHOOL BRANCH).

BY THE REV. WILLIAM B. SPRAGUE, D.D., L.L.D.

Prefatory Note. - Ashbel Green, D.D. LL.D. - Archibald Alexander, D.D.— James W. Alexander, D.D. - Joseph Addison Alexander, D. D. — Samuel Miller, D.D.-Eliphalet Nott, D.D., LL. D.- William Neill, D.D. - John McDowell, D.D.- William McDowell, D. D.- George Junkin, D.D., LL.D. -Joseph Smith, D.D. - William W. Phillips, D.D. — Joseph H. Jones, D.D.William M. Engles, D.D. -John N. Campbell, D.D. — George Potts, D.D. - Nicholas Murray, D.D. - John M. Krebs, D.D. — Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, D. D. — Phineas D. Gurley, D.D.

PREFATORY NOTE.

I HAVE been requested to write sketches of Old School Presbyterian ministers, who have died during the period of the separation of the church, sufficient to occupy a very limited portion of this volume. In looking over the list of those who may be considered representative ministers, who have died within these thirty-three years, I am bound to say that there is double the number that I have selected, who are just as fairly entitled to a commemorative notice, as most of those whom I have made the subjects of it. As it was impossible, however, to include them all within the specified limits, while I have taken care to include none whom the voice of the whole Church would not pronounce worthy of being thus distinguished, I have made the selection not without some reference to the comparative facility with which the material for different sketches could be obtained. Those who do not find in the series, some honored and beloved names which they look for, may rest assured that the omission has been occasioned by the circumstances I have mentioned, and not by the want of due appreciation of the individuals concerned.-W. B. S

ASHBEL GREEN, D.D., LL.D.

THE father of ASHBEL GREEN was the Rev. Jacob Green, pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Hanover, N.J., and his mother was a daughter of the Rev. John