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MONROE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: JOHNSON, Thomas Cary
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
Valerie & Tommy Crook
vfcrook@trellis.net
September 24, 1999
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Bibliography:
Johnson, Rossiter, ed. Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable
Americans, - Vol. I-X (10). Boston, MA: The Biographical Society, 1904.
Volume VI
page 107
JOHNSON, Thomas Cary, educator, was born at Fishbok Hill, Monroe county, Va.,
July 19, 1859; son of Thomas and Alinerva. (Hinchman) Johnson; grandson of
Barnabas and Sarah (Thomas) Johnson and of William and Mary (Simms) Hinchman,
and a descendant of Scotch, Irish, Huguenot, Dutch and English ancestors. He
was graduated from Hampden-Sidney college, Va., in 1881, took diplomas in
Latin, Greek and mathematics at the University of Virginia, 1883-84, graduated
from Union Theological seminary, Va., in 1887, and was a special student at
the Yale Divinity school, 1887-88. He was licensed by the presbytery of
Greenbrier, W. Va., in May, 1887; was professor of Greek and Hebrew exegesis
at Austin Theological school, Texas, 1888-90, and was also assistant professor
of mental and moral philosophy at the University of Texas during those years.
He was ordained by the presbytery of Central Texas in August, 1890, and was a
stated supply and pastor-elect of the 3d Presbyterian church at Louisville,
Ky., 1890-91. He was professor of English Bible and pastoral theology at Union
Theological seminary, Virginia, 1891-92, and became professor of
ecclesiastical
history and polity there in 1892. He was elected a member of the American
Historical association. He received from Hampden-Sidney college the degree
of D.D. in 1891, and that of LL.D. in 1899. He is the author of: A History
of the Southern Presbyterian Church (1894, in Vol. XI. of the American Church
History Series); Alleged Differences Between the Northern and Southern
Presbyterian Churches (1894); Ministerial Training (1896-97); A Brief Sketch
of the United Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
(1897); The Mode of Baptism in the Apostolic Age (1899); John Calvin and the
Genevan Reformation: A Sketch (1899). He also edited the collected writings
of the Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Peck, and contributed numerous articles to
periodicals
and newspapers.
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