History of Gettysburg, (Adams County) Pennsylvania United States of America

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John Knox, clergyman, was born near Gettysburg, Pa., June 17, 1790; son of Dr. Samuel and Rebekah (Hodge) Knox. He entered the junior class of Dickinson college, and was graduated in 1811; was a student at the Theological seminary of the Associate Reformed church in New York city, under Dr. John M. Mason, and was licensed to preach by the Associate Reformed presbytery of Philadelphia, Pa., in 1815. He was installed a pastor of the Collegiate Reformed church in New York city, July 16, 1816; and became senior minister in 1833, which position he held until his death. He was married, May 11, 1818, to Euphemia Provost, daughter of the Rev. Dr. John M. Mason. He took an active part in raising funds for the endowment of professorships in the Theological seminary in New Brunswick, N.J., and was prominently identified with the American Tract society, being chairman of its publishing and executive committees. He was president of the board of trustees of the Leake and Watts Orphan asylum, a trustee of Columbia college, 1836-58, and president of the board; a trustee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and of Rutgers college, which college he greatly assisted in a time of financial embarrassment. He received the degree of S.T.D. from Washington college, Pa., in 1824. He died in New York city, Jan. 8, 1858.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Jeremiah Morrow, senator, was born in Gettysburg, Pa., Oct. 6, 1771. His early life was spent on his father's farm, and in 1795 he removed to the settlement of Columbia, Ohio, near the mouth of the Little Miami river. He was married in 1799 to Mary Packhill, purchased a farm in Warren county and engaged in farming. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1802; a representative in the territorial legislature, 1801-02; a state senator from Hamilton county, 1808, and from Warren county, 1827-28; a delegate to the convention that framed the state constitution, adopted Nov. 29, 1802, and state senator in 1803. He was the only representative from Ohio in the 7th-12th congresses, 1803-18, and was U.S. senator, 1813-19. In 1814 he was appointed a commissioner to treat with the Indians west of the Miami river, and in 1820 was a presidential elector on the Monroe ticket. He was defeated for governor of Ohio in 1820, and was elected in 1822, and again in 1824, serving 1823-26. He was a state senator, 1827-28, and a representative in the state legislature from Warren county, 1829-30, and 1835-36. On July 4, 1869, he laid the cornerstone of the new capitol at Columbus. He was a Democratic representative from the fourth district of Ohio in the 26th and 27th congresses, 1840-43, having been elected to succeed Thomas Corwin , resigned. He died in Warren county, Ohio, March 22, 1852.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Edward McPherson, representative, was born in Gettysburg, Pa., July 31, 1830; son of John Bayard and Catharine (Lenhart) McPherson, grandson of Capt. William McPherson, an officer in the American Revolution, captured by the British at the battle of Long Island, and great-grandson of Capt. Robert McPherson, who, with his wife Janet, settled on Marsh Creek, York county, Pa., about 1735; was captain in General Forbas's expedition to Fort Duquesne in 1748, a delegate to the Pennsylvania state constitutional convention of July 15, 1776, and colonel of state troops in the War of Independence. Edward was graduated from Pennsylvania college in 1848, studied law with Thaddeus Stevens in Lancaster, Pa., was correspondent in Harrisburg for the Philadelphia North American, 1850; edited the Harrisburg Daily American, 1851; the Lancaster Independent Whig, 1851-54; and established the Inland Daily in Lancaster, Pa., in 1853. He was a representative in the 36th and 37th congresses, 1859-63; was a captain in the Pennsylvania Reserves in 1861 until that body was mustered into the U.S. service, and served for a time as a volunteer aide on the staff of General McCall. He was a chairman of the committee on the library, and a member of the committee on military affairs in the 37th congress, and was appointed a regent of the Smithsonian Institution. He was married, Nov. 12, 1862, to Annie D., daughter of John S. Crawford of Gettysburg, Pa. He was deputy commissioner of internal revenue in 1863; clerk of the house of representatives in the 38th, 39th, 40th, 41st, 42d, 47th and 51st congresses, 1863-73, 1881-83, and 1886-91. He was chief of the bureau of engraving and printing in 1877; editor of the Philadelphia Press, 1877-80; and editor and proprietor of the Star and Sentinel, Gettysburg, Pa., 1880-95. He was secretary of the Union national committee, 1860-64, secretary of the Republican congressional campaign committee in 1880, 1884, 1888 and 1892, and was permanent president of the Republican national convention that met in Cincinnati, June 14, 1876. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from the College of New Jersey in 1866 and LL.D. from Pennsylvania college in 1867. He edited a biennial Handbook of Politics (1872-95); the New York Tribune Almanac (1877-95), and was the American editor of the Almanach de Gotha. He is the author of: Political History of the United States during the Great Rebellion (1865): Political Manual (1866), and The Political History of the United States during the Reconstruction (1870). He died at Gettysburg, Pa., Dec, 14, 1895.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Jacob A. Clutz, educator, was born near Gettysburg, Pa., Jan. 5, 1848; son of Henry and Hannah (Buffington) Clutz. In 1863 he entered the preparatory department of Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, leaving the following year to enter the army in response to the call of the governor of Pennsylvania for emergency men to repel the threatened invasion by the Confederates, and after serving about four months he was mustered out with his company and returned to his studies. He was graduated from Pennsylvania college in 1869 and from the theological seminary at Gettysburg in 1872. He was pastor of Zion's Lutheran church, Newville, Pa., 1872-73; of St. Paul's English Lutheran church, Baltimore, Md., 1873-83; and general secretary of the Board of home missions of the General Synod, 1883-89, when he entered upon his duties as president of Midland college, Atchison, Kan. He was made a member of the Board of foreign missions in 1877; was corresponding secretary for nearly eight years, and assisted in organizing and became first treasurer of the Children's foreign missionary society of the General Synod. He was elected president of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran church at its thirty-fifth convention held in Lebanon, Pa., May 20-29, 1891. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by his alma mater in 1889.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor