History of Livermore, (Westmoreland County) Pennsylvania United States of America

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Irwin Pounds McCurdy, clergyman and educator, was born near Livermore, Pa., March 23, 1856; son of Alexander Jackson and Sarah (Pounds) McCurdy; grandson of Alexander Henderson and Mary (Doty) McCurdy, and of Joseph and Mary (Drummond) Pound; great-grandson of Sergeant Alexander McCurdy, who with his father, Captain William, and his grandfather, John McCurdy, were soldiers from Pennsylvania in the Revolutionary war, and whose great-grandfather, John McCurdy, came from Ireland and settled near Philadelphia in 1705; and a defendant of Gov. William Bradford, Edward Doty and Henry Sampson, who came to America in the Mayflower in 1620. Irwin Pounds McCurdy studied law, was graduated from the State Normal college, Indiana, Pa., B.E., 1876, M.E., 1878; attended Wooster university one year, entered Lafayette college as a senior and was graduated A.B., 1880, A.M., 1883, Litt.D., 1890. He was a student at Princeton Theological seminary and a graduate student at the College of New Jersey, Princeton, 1880-82; and was also a graduate student at Johns Hopkins university, 1882-83. He was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry, July 8, 1881; was pastor at Frederick City, Md., and professor of Greek and higher mathematics at Frederick Female seminary, 1881-84; pastor of the South-western church, Philadelphia, 1884-95; and in 1895 was made honorary pastor of the latter for life. He became pastor of the Fifth church, Kansas City, Mo., in 1897, and resigned in 1900, after which he engaged in literarywork at his country seat, Harmony Grove, Md. He was editor of the Southwestern Observer, 1885-87; of The Amendment, 1889; and of The Weekly Reminder, 1897-99; a delegate to the Pan Presbyterian council, London, 1888; financial secretary of Lafayette college, 1891-92; a member of the Presbyterian board of education, 1887-98; and president of the board of managers of the Philadelphia Evangelical Alliance, 1889-94. He received the degrees D.D. from New Windsor college, Md., 1882; Litt. D. from Hanover college, Ind., 1890; Ph.D. from Bellevue college, Neb., 1890; Sc.D. from the College of Science, Illinois, 1890; L.H.D. from Maryville college, Tenn., 1891; H.L.D. from Lenox college, Iowa, 1891; Philol. D. from Grove City college, Pa., 1891; and LL.D. from Rutherford college, N.C., 1898. All these degrees, except D.D. and LL.D., were conferred on examination. He is the author of: A Philological Discussion of the Works, Style and Language of Edgar Allan Poe a prize essay (1880); The Successful Teacher (1881); Sacra Trinitas (1881); Charter and Constitutions (1886); Evangelistic Work (1888); Centennial Hymns (1888); Lovely Lafayette and other Poems (1889); The Saxon and Norman Elements in our Language and Literature (1890); The Causes of the Intellectual Development of the Elizabethan Age (1890); Christmas Carols and New Year Hymns (1892); Our Country's Glory and other Patriot Poems (1901).

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

History of Livermore, (Westmoreland County) Pennsylvania

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