Dales, John Blakely

D.D. (Franklin College, O., 1853), United Presbyterian; b. at Kortright, Delawai-e County, N.Y., Aug. 6, 1815; graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., 1835, and at the A ociate Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary, New burgh, N.Y., 1839; has been pastor of the First A ociate Reformed (now Second United) Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Penn., since June 4, 1840, and held the following positions: editor in part of Christian Instructor (1846-79); profe or of church history and pastoral theology in New burgh Theological Seminary (1867-76); moderator of the General A embly (1867); recording secretary of the Presbyterian Historical Society (Philadelphia) since 1851; corresponding secretary of the Board of Foreign Mi ions of the United Presbyterian Church, since its organization in 1859; stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Synod of New York since 1863. He is the author of Roman Catholicism, Philadelphia, 1842; Introduction to Lectures on Odd Fellowship, 1851; The Dangers and Duties of Young Men, 1857; History of the A ociate Reformed Church and its Mi ions (in the Church Memorial), Xenia, O., 1859; A Memorial Discourse on the fortieth anniversary of his pastorate, Philadelphia, 1882; a Church Manual, 1884.