History of Prosperity, (Washington County) Pennsylvania United States of America

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Henry Collin Minton, clergyman, was born at Prosperity, Washington county, Pa., May 8, 1855; son of Matthias and Margaret (Hanna) Minton, and grandson of Matthias and Sarah (Lindley) Minton, and of John Vance and Lydia (McCollum)Hanna. His ancestor, Thomas Hanna, immigrated to America in 1764, and settled in southwestern Pennsylvania, where he left two sons, Robert and Thomas; Robert was the great-grandfather of Marcus A. Hanna and Thomas, the ancestor of Henry Coilin Minton. He attended the private normal sobcol at Clays, ville, Pa., was graduated from Washington and Jefferson college, A.B., 1879, A.M., 1882, and from the Western Theological seminary in 1882; was pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Duluth, Minn., 1882-83; and pastor elect of the Second Presbyterian church at Baltimore, Md., in 1883, but resigned on account of failing health and removed to San Jose, Cal., where he was pastor of the First Presbyterian church, 1884-91. He was elected Stuart professor of theology at the San Francisco Theological seminary in 1891. He travelled extensively in 1888-89, and in 1896 he read a paper before the Presbyterian ecumenical council in Glasgow, Scotland. He declined the presidency of Centre college, Ky., in 1897. He was married Feb. 4, 1891, to Claire Louise, daughter of the Rev. Dr. Henry Augustus Smith of Philadelphia. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Washington and Jefferson college in 1892. He was moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the U.S.A. in Philadelphia, 1901; chairman of the creed revision committee of the Presbyterian church, 1901, and lecturer on the L. P. Stone foundation in Princeton Theological seminary for 1901. He is the author of Christianity Supernatural (1900), and of numerous addresses and lectures.

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

History of Prosperity, (Washington County) Pennsylvania

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