Scott, William Anderson

D.D. (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1844), LL.D. (University of New-York City, 1872), Presbyterian; b. at Rock Creek, Bedford County, Tenn., Jan. 31, 1813; d. in San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 14, 1885. He was graduated at Cumber land College, Princeton, Ky., 1833; studied in Princeton (N.J.) Theological Seminary, 1833-34; was mi ionary in Louisiana and Arkansas, 1835-36; principal of academies in Tenne ee, 1836-40; became pastor at Tuscaloosa, Ala., 1840, and in New Orleans, La. (first church), 1843; pastor-elect of Calvary Church, San Francisco, Cal., 1854-61; in Europe, and for a while in charge of the new John-street Presbyterian Church of Birmingham, Eng.; pastor of Forty-second street Church, New-York City, 1863-70; of St. John's Church, San Francisco, 1870 till his death. He held his latter position along with that of profe or of mental and moral philosophy and systematic theology in the San Francisco Theological Seminary from its establishment in 1871. In 1858 he was moderator of the General A embly (old school). He published Daniel, a Model for Young Men, New York, 1854; Achan in El Dorado, San Francisco, 1855; Trade and Letters, New York, 1856; The Giant Judge, San Francisco, 1858; The Church in the Army, or the Four Centurions of the Gospels, New York, 1862, 2d ed. 1868; The Christ of the Apostles' 1 Creed: the Voice ofth 208 e Church against Arianism, Strau , and Renan,~New York, 1867. *